(A) If in the opinion of the Village Administrator or Utility Superintendent the rules and regulations of the Water Department including the standards of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency incorporated therein dealing with the backflow of contamination require a backflow prevention device for the protection of the public water system, the Administrator will give notice to the water consumer to install such an approved device immediately. The water consumer shall, at his or her own expense, install such an approved device at a location and in a manner approved by the Administrator, and shall have inspections and tests made of those approved devices as required by the Administrator.
(B) No person, firm, or corporation shall establish, or permit to be established, or maintain any connection whereby a private, auxiliary, or emergency water supply other than the regular public water supply of this village may enter the supply or distribution system of this village unless the private, auxiliary, or emergency water supply and the method of the connection and use of the supply shall have been approved by the Administrator and by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(C) It shall be the duty of the Administrator to cause surveys and investigations to be made of industrial and other properties served by the public water supply where actual or potential hazards to the public water supply may exist. The surveys and investigations shall be made a matter of public record and shall be repeated as often as the Administrator shall deem necessary.
(D) The Administrator or Utility Superintendent or their duly authorized representative shall have the right to enter at any reasonable time and any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distributing system of this village for the purpose of inspecting the piping system or systems thereof. The owner, lessees, or of any property so served shall furnish upon reasonable notice to the Administrator or the Utility Superintendent any information which he or she may request regarding the piping system or systems use in the property. The refusal of that information, when demanded, shall, within the discretion of either of these officials be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connections as provided in this section.
(E) The Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to discontinue, after reasonable notice to the occupant therefore, the water service to any property wherein any connection in violation of the provisions of this section is known to exist, and to take such other precautionary measures as he or she may deem necessary to eliminate any danger or contamination of the public water supply distribution mains. Water service to the property shall not be restored until the conditions shall have been eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 2010-84, passed 8-16-2010; Res. 17-2020, passed 4-21-2020)