Commercial Fixtures, Fitting, and Applicances
Commercial toilets
Commercial urinals
Commercial lavatory (restroom) faucets
Commercial prerinse spry valves
(for food service applications)
Residential Fixtures, Fitting, and Appliances
Residential toilets
Residential lavatory (bathroom) faucets
Residential kitchen faucet
Residential showerheads
Current Baseline
1.6 gallons per flush (gpf)*
Except blow-out fixtures: 3.5 (gpf)
1.0 (gpf)
2.2 gallons per minute (gpm) at 60 pounds per square inch (psi), private
applications only (hotel or motel guest rooms, hospital patient rooms)
0.5 (gpm) at 60 (psi)** all others except private applications
0.25 gallons per cycle for metering faucets
Flow rate ≤ 1.6 (gpm)
( no pressure specified; no performance requirement)
Current Baseline
1.6 (gpm) ***
2.2 (gpm) at 60 psi
2.5 (gpm) at 80 (psi) per shower stall****
* EPAct 1992 standard for toilets apllies to both commercial and residential models.
**In addition to EPAct requirements, the American society of Mechanical Engineers standard for public lavatory faucets is 0.5 gpm at 60 psi (Asme
A112.18.1-2005). This maximum has been incorporated into the national Uniform Plumbing code and the international Pumbling code.
*** EPAct 1992 standard for toilets applies to both commercial and resistential models.
**** Residential shower compartment (stall) in dwelling units: The total allowable flow rate from all
flowing showerheads at any given time, including
rain systems, waterfals, bodysprays, bodyspas and jets, must be limited to the allowable showerhead flow rate as spacified above (2.5 gpm) per
shower compartment, where the floor area of the shower, compartment is less than 2, 500 square inches. For each increment of 2, 500 square inches
of floor area thereafter or part thereof, an additional showerhead with total
allowable flow rate from all flowing devices equal to or less than the allowable flow rate as specified above must be allowed. Expetion: Showers
than emit recirculated nonpotable water originating from within the shower compartment while operating area allowed to exceed the maximum as
long as the total potable water flow does not exceed the flow rate as specified above.