924.04 WHERE PROTECTION IS REQUIRED.

   (a)    An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving premises, where in the judgement of the Water Utilities Superintendent or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, or a duly authorized representative, actual or potential hazard to the potable water system exists.

   (b)    An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer’s water system serving premises where any of the following conditions exist:

      (1)    Premises having an auxiliary water supply, unless such auxiliary supply is accepted as an additional source by the Water Utilities Superintendent and the source is approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

      (2)   Premises on which any substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the public potable water system. This shall include premises having sources or systems containing process fluids or waters originating from the public potable water system which are no longer under the sanitary control of the Water Utilities Superintendent.

      (3)    Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of the Water Utilities Superintendent, are not correctable, or have intricate plumbing arrangements, which make it impractical to determine at that time or in the future whether or not cross-connections exist.

      (4)    Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibited restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross- connection survey. Premises having a repeated history of cross- connections being established or re-established.

      (6)    Others specified by the Water Utilities Superintendent or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or his duly authorized representative.

   (c)    An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed each service line to a consumer's water system serving, but not necessarily limited to, the following types of facilities unless the Water Utilities Superintendent or the Director of Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, or his duly authorized representative, determines that no actual or potential hazard to the public potable 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.

      (11)    Fire sprinkler systems.

      (12)    Lawn sprinkler systems.

      (13)   Swimming pools.

      (14)    Others specified by the Water Utilities Superintendent or the Director of Ohio Environmental Protection Agency or his duly authorized representative.

   (d)    An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed at any point of connection between the public potable or consumer's water system and an auxiliary water system, unless such auxiliary system is accepted as an additional source by the Water Utilities Superintendent and the source is approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

(Ord. 110-1990. Passed 7-9-90.)