(a) Section 1417 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) establishes the definition for "lead free" as a weighted average of 0.25 percent lead calculated across the wetted surfaces of a pipe, pipe fitting, plumbing fitting, and fixture and 0.2 percent lead for solder and flux. The Act also provides a methodology for calculating the weighted average of wetted surfaces.
(b) The Act prohibits the "use of any pipe, any pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, any solder, or any flux, after June 1986, in the installation or repair of (i) any public water system; or (ii) any plumbing in a residential or non-residential facility providing water for human consumption, that is not lead free."
(c) Additionally there is a prohibition on introducing a pipe, any pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, any solder, or any flux that is not lead free into commerce; unless the use is for manufacturing or industrial purposes.
(d) No person, firm or corporation (including City staff and account holders) shall introduce, install, repair or otherwise alter service line piping, plumbing, fixtures or solder in violation of the "lead-free" provisions of Section 1417 of the USEPA Safe Drinking Water Act nor of the similar provisions of R.C. Chapter 6109 and Chapter 3745-81: "Primary Drinking Water Standards" of the Ohio EPA, either now in place or as adopted in the future.
(Ord. 2017-10. Passed 2-6-17.)