(a) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving premises, where, in the judgment of the Director of Service or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, actual or potential hazards to the public potable water system exist.
(b) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving the following premises:
(1) Premises having an auxiliary water supply, unless such auxiliary supply is accepted as an additional source by the Director of Service 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 includes 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 Director of Service.
(3) Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of the Director of Service, are not correctable, or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impractical to determine whether or not cross-connnections exist;
(4) Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete crossconnection survey;
(5) Premises having a repeated history of cross-connections being established or re-established; and
(6) Others specified by the Director of Service or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving, but not necessarily limited to, the following types of facilities, unless the Director of Service or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 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; and
(11) Others specified by the Director of Service or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(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 supply, unless such auxiliary supply is accepted as an additional source by the Director of Service and the source is approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(Ord. 79-18. Passed 4-24-79.)