(a) No person shall install or maintain a water service connection to any premises where actual or potential cross-connections to a public water system or a consumer's water system may exist unless such actual or potential cross-connections are abated or controlled to the satisfaction of the Director.
(b) No person shall install or maintain a connection between a public water system or consumer's water system and an auxiliary water system unless the auxiliary water system, the method of connection and the use of such system have been made accordance with Ohio R.C. 6109.13 and as approved by the Director of Public Service.
(c) When backflow prevention measures are required:
(1) An approved backflow preventer shall be installed on each service line, where in the judgment of the Director of Public Service, a pollutional, system, health or severe health hazard to the public water system exists.
(2) An approved backflow preventer shall be installed on each service line where any of the following conditions exist:
A. Premises with an auxiliary water system on the premises, unless such auxiliary system is accepted and approved as an additional source by the Director of Public Service.
B. Premises on which any substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to a public water system. This shall include premises having sources or systems containing process fluids.
C. Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of the Director, are not correctable, or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impracticable to determine whether or not cross-connections exist.
D. Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross-connection survey.
E. Premises having a repeated history of cross-connections being established or re-established.
F. As otherwise specified by the Director of Public Service.
(d) Notwithstanding subsection (c) above, an approved backflow preventer shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's premises, but not necessarily limited to, the following types of facilities unless the Director determines that no severe health, health, system or pollutional hazard to the public water system exists:
(1) Hospitals, mortuaries, clinics, nursing homes.
(2) Laboratories.
(3) Piers, docks, waterfront facilities.
(4) Sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping stations, or storm water pumping stations.
(5) Food or beverage processing plants.
(6) Chemical plants.
(7) Metal plating industries.
(8) Petroleum processing or storage plants.
(9) Radioactive material processing plants or nuclear reactors.
(10) Car washes.
(e) Backflow Prevention Devices.
(1) Any backflow preventer required shall be of a model or construction approved by the Director of Public Service.
(2) Any backflow preventer device shall be installed at a location and in a manner approved by the Director and shall be installed at the expense of the water consumer.
(f) Duties of Consumers, Inspections.
(1) It shall be the duty of the water consumer to maintain any backflow preventer in proper working order and in continuous operation.
(2) The consumer shall, on any premises on which any backflow preventer is required, have thorough inspections and operational tests made of the backflow preventers at the time of installation or repair, and at least once every twelve (12) months. These inspections and tests shall be at the expense of the water consumer, made by a certified plumber with a certification in backflow inspection and as further approved by the Director.
(3) These devices shall be repaired, overhauled or replaced at the expense of the consumer whenever they are found to be defective.
(4) Records of such inspections, tests, repairs and overhaul shall be kept by the consumer and made available to the City of Berea upon request.
(5) The Director shall inspect or cause to be inspected all installations where an approved connection exists between an auxiliary water system and the public water system or a consumer's water system at least once every twelve (12) months.
(g) Temporary Disruption of Water Service. In accordance with Ohio EPA regulation, 3745-95-08, the City shall, after reasonable notice to the occupant thereof, deny or discontinue the water service to any premises wherein any of the following occurs:
(1) A backflow preventer required by this chapter is not installed, tested and maintained in a manner acceptable to the supplier of water.
(2) The backflow preventer has been removed or by-passed.
(3) An unprotected cross-connection exists on the premises.
(4) If the Director of Public Service is denied entry to determine compliance with this chapter.
Water service to such premises shall not be restored until the consumer has corrected or eliminated such conditions or defects in conformance with this chapter, and to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Service. The City reserves the right to impose a charge to restore water services disrupted in accordance with this section.
(Ord. 2021-67. Passed 12-6-21.)