(a) Bridgeport Utility Board.
(1) The Bridgeport Utility Board shall, for all new cross-connection installations, provide an on-site evaluation and/or review of plans in order to determine the type of backflow preventer assembly(ies), if any, that will be required based on or cross-connection(s) and the degree of health hazard(s).
(2) For premises existing prior to the start of this program, the Bridgeport Utility Board will conduct an on-site survey and/or review of plans for actual cross-connections or potential health hazards, and inform the Owner by letter of any corrective action deemed necessary, the method of achieving the correction, and the time allowed for the correction to be made. Ordinarily, ninety (90) days will be allowed. However, this time period may be shortened depending upon the degree of hazard involved and the history of the device(s)/(assembly(ies) already in place.
(3) No cross-connection will be allowed to remain unless it is protected by an approved air gap or backflow preventer assembly(ies) which must be regularly tested to ensure satisfactory operation.
(4) The Bridgeport Utility Board shall inform the Owner, by letter, of any failure to comply to a follow-up survey. The Bridgeport Utility Board may allow an additional fifteen (15) days for the completion of the required correction(s). In the event the Owner fails to comply with the necessary correction(s) by the time of the second survey, the Bridgeport Utility Board shall inform the Owner, by letter, that the water service to the Owner's premises will be terminated within a period not to exceed five (5) days. In the event the Owner informs the Bridgeport Utility Board of extenuating circumstances as to why the correction(s) has not been made, a time extension may be granted by the Bridgeport Utility Board, but In no case may said extension exceed an additional thirty (30) days.
(5) If the Bridgeport Utility Board determines at any time that a serious threat to the public health exists, water service shall be terminated immediately.
(6) The Bridgeport Utility Board will conduct initial and follow-up premise surveys to determine the nature of existing or potential health hazards. The main focus will be on high hazard industries and commercial premises.
(b) Owner.
(1) The Owner shall be responsible for the elimination or protection in each water service line of all cross-connections, actual or potential health hazards, or other degradation of the public water system on his/her premises.
(2) The Owner, after having been informed by a letter from Bridgeport Utility Board, shall, at the sole expense of the Owner, install, maintain, and test, or have tested, any and all backflow preventer assemblies on the served premises.
(3) The Owner shall correct within ten (10) days any malfunction or defective backflow preventer assembly(ies) revealed by periodic testing or visual detection. This may also involve the removal and/or replacement of the backflow preventer assembly(ies). The Owner, at his expense, shall repair, overhaul, or replace and test the assembly again.
(4) The Owner shall inform the Bridgeport Utility Board of any proposed or modified cross-connections and also any existing cross-connections of which the Owner is aware, but has not been found the Bridgeport Utility Board.
(5) The Owner shall not install a bypass around any backflow preventer assembly unless there is a backflow preventer assembly of the same type on the bypass. Owners who cannot shut down operation for testing of the backflow preventer assembly(ies) must supply additional assemblies necessary to allow testing to take place.
(6) The Owner shall install only backflow preventer assemblies of a design and in a manner approved by the Bridgeport Utility Board and/or the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health and general industry standards.
(7) Any Owner having a private well or other auxiliary water source must have the approval of the Bridgeport Utility Board if the well or source is cross- connected to the public water supply distribution system. Permission to cross-connect may be denied. The Owner may be required to install a backflow preventer assembly at the service entrance if a private water source is maintained, even if it is not cross-connected to the public water supply distribution system.
(8) In the event the Owner installs plumbing to provide potable water for domestic purposes that is on the Bridgeport Utility Board's side of the backflow preventer assembly, such plumbing must include its own installed backflow preventer assembly.
(9) The Owner shall be responsible for the payment of all fees for service, permits, periodic assembly testing, retesting in the case that the backflow preventer assembly fails to operate correctly. and follow-up surveys for non-compliance with this article or the Regulations of the Bridgeport Utility Board and/or the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health.
(10) The Owner must maintain records for a minimum of three (3) years of installation and removal, all testing, repair and maintenance for all assemblies/devices in the Owner's water distribution system(s).
(11) The Owner will report any backflow incident(s) occurring in their facility(ies)/building(s) as soon as possible but no later than twenty-four hours (24) after the incident to the Bridgeport Utility Board and to the WVBPH. Also, the Owner must maintain for a minimum of three (3) years all records and reports of all backflow incidents occurring in their facility(ies)/building(s). These records and reports are to be made available to the Bridgeport Utility Board and/or WVBPH upon request.
(Passed 10-10-16.)