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(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to construct or maintain a privy, vault, cesspool or similar contrivance for the reception of human excreta or other sewerage when the premises abut upon a public sewer line in either street, alley or other easement or private property. All such privies or toilets shall be removed by the owners and the occupants of the property abutting on any street, alley or other easement or private property on which runs a sewer line and to which the drainage from such premises may be connected. All such privies or surface toilets or other means of casting or depositing human excreta or other sewerage upon or into the soil or into any running or percolating stream of water or into any cistern, well or sink whereby the soil is contaminated with such sewerage are hereby declared to be nuisances and shall be abated.
(B) When the house, hotel, manufacturing or commercial establishment or other building from which the sewerage drained is situated on a lot not abutting on a street, alley or other easement or private property in which a line of the municipal sewer system runs and which, for this reason, may not be drained into public sewer system, then the sewerage from such locations may be drained into a state septic tank or into a state pit with concrete floor and riser. Where inside toilets not connected with the municipal sewer system for reasons of location as stated above, then so long as such conditions exist, such sewerage shall be drained into a state septic tank constructed according to the specifications prescribed by the State Board of Health. Where there is no inside toilet, then the sewerage from such premises shall be connected with a pit with concrete floor and riser constructed and maintained according to the specifications of the State Board of Health. Such specifications are set out in printed exhibits of the State Board of Health marked “A” and “B” respectively, and now made a part of this chapter by reference, and one copy marked “A” and the other “B” are attached to Ord. dated 11-2-1953. The construction of such septic tank or pit above referred to shall be approved by the State Board of Health or by an authorized representative of the city, or by the City Engineer, as conforming to the terms of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 50.27) (Ord. passed 11-2-1953) Penalty, see § 50.999
The procedure for all sewer taps shall be as follows.
(A) All sewer taps shall be made by the city water and sewer system.
(B) The city water and sewer system will run the extension from such taps to the property line of the particular property which is to be serviced.
(C) No individual, other than an employee of the city water and sewer system, shall be allowed to render this service.
(Prior Code, § 50.28) (Ord. passed 3-19-1956) Penalty, see § 50.999
CROSS-CONNECTIONS
(A) It is the purpose of this subchapter to establish a program to assure that the public water supply is protected from contamination due to backflow or cross-connections. The city recognizes that contamination of the public water supply presents an imminent health hazard to the residential and non-residential users of the public water system; the threat of significant economic loss due to disrupted water service to such residential and non-residential water users and the potential liability to the city.
(B) It is the further purpose of this subchapter to meet the requirements of 401 KAR 8:020 as enacted by the State Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet.
(C) This subchapter is enacted under the power vested in the city by KRS 82.082.
(Prior Code, § 50.31) (Ord. passed 9-5-1995)
For the purposes of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AIR GAP. The measured vertical distance from the lowest end of a potable water outlet to the flood rim or line of the fixture or receptacle into which it discharges. The minimum required AIR GAP shall be twice the effective opening of the potable water outlet.
APPROVED BACKFLOW ASSEMBLY. Any device that may be approved by the Cabinet in lieu of proper air gap separation.
AUXILIARY WATER SUPPLY. Any water supply on or available to the premises other than the city’s public water supply. These AUXILIARY WATERS may include water from any natural source such as a well, spring, river, stream or body of water or any water or other substance of unknown or questionable quality that may present a health or system hazard to the potable public water supply.
BACK PRESSURE. The flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances under pressure into the distribution pipes of a potable water supply system from any source other than the original water source.
BACK SIPHONAGE. The flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or substances into the distribution pipes of a potable water supply system from any source other than the original water source, caused by the reduction of pressure in the potable water supply system.
BACKFLOW. The reversal of the normal flow of water caused by either back pressure or back siphonage.
BACKFLOW PREVENTION ASSEMBLY. An assembly or means designed to prevent backflow. A listing of acceptable BACKFLOW PREVENTION ASSEMBLIES and degree of hazard is available in the State Plumbing Law, Regulations and Code, being 815 KAR 20.
CONTAMINATION. An impairment of the quality of the potable water supply by any waste product, fluid, substance, compound or other material to a degree which creates an actual or potential hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease.
CROSS-CONNECTION. Any physical connection or arrangement of piping or fixtures between two otherwise separate piping systems one of which contains potable water and the other non-potable water or substance of questionable quality, through which, or because of which, backflow may occur into the potable water system.
CROSS-CONNECTION, CONTROLLED. A connection between a potable water system and a non-potable water system with an approved backflow prevention assembly properly installed and maintained so that it will continuously afford the protection commensurate with the degree of hazard.
THERMAL EXPANSION TANK. A device installed on the cold water supply line near a water heater to compensate for the expansion of water within a water system when such water is heated.
(Prior Code, § 50.32) (Ord. passed 9-5-1995)
The city shall provide protection to the public water system against backflow by implementing the following requirements.
(A) Residential.
(1) Buildings used for habitation or occupancy shall be considered as residential buildings. No water service connection to any premises shall be installed or allowed to be installed by the city unless such service connection is protected by a backflow prevention assembly.
(2) Residential service connections shall be considered as low hazard applications and all such connections shall have, at a minimum, a dual check valve backflow preventer installed between the water meter and the residence. The city may require additional or alternate backflow prevention assemblies if the degree of hazard constitutes a higher level of protection for the public water system.
(B) Non-residential.
(1) No water service connection to any non-residential facility shall be installed or allowed to be installed by the city unless such water service connection is protected by a backflow prevention assembly. The type of protective device required shall be determined at the time of installation of the service connection and shall be commensurate with the degree of hazard at the point of such service connection.
(2) At a minimum, the service connection shall be installed with a dual check valve backflow preventer.
(3) In the event activities to occur within a non-residential facility changes and creates a higher degree of hazard, then the backflow prevention assembly shall be replaced with an assembly which provides acceptable protection.
(C) Inspections.
(1) The customer’s water system shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times to authorized representatives of the city to determine whether cross-connections or other structural or sanitary hazards, including violation of this subchapter, exist. When such condition becomes known, the city shall deny or immediately discontinue service to the premises by providing a physical break in the service line until the customer has corrected the condition in conformance with state and city statutes relating to plumbing, water supplies and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
(2) Water service to any premises shall be discontinued if it is found that a backflow prevention assembly required by this subchapter has been removed, by-passed or if an unprotected cross-connection exists on the premises. Service will not be restored until such conditions or defects are corrected.
(D) Existing service connections.
(1) All existing water service connections which do not have backflow prevention assemblies or existing water service connections which have less than the minimum required backflow prevention assemblies, shall, except for the inspection requirements, be excluded from the requirements of this subchapter so long as the city is assured that the public water system is satisfactorily protected. Whenever the existing service connection is moved or requires more than minimum maintenance or when the city determines that a hazard to health exists, then a backflow prevention assembly meeting the requirements of this subchapter shall be installed on such existing service connection. Periodically, the city shall install or require to be installed backflow prevention assemblies on existing unprotected water service connections until such time that all water service connections within the public water system are equipped with backflow prevention assemblies. Backflow prevention assemblies shall not be installed on existing service connections until after the property owner of such residential or commercial property has been informed of the actual and potential hazards that may be created as a result of such backflow assembly installation.
(2) Notices provided to such property owners shall include the following language as adopted in 815 KAR 20:120, § 2, item (6): When cross-connection control devices are properly installed, they create a closed water system. A properly sized thermal expansion tank shall be installed in the cold water supply located as near the water heater as possible.
(Prior Code, § 50.33) (Ord. passed 9-5-1995)
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