A. Water Service Connection Application Requirements. Any person or entity, who desires or is required to secure a new service connection to the System, shall file with the Water Utility for each such service connection, a written and signed new service connection application. The applicant will be responsible for payment of all associated impact fees and connection fees. Fairfield Town will follow Utah State Code 11-36a-601 and Title 9.9 Impact Fees in the accounting of these fees. The application must be submitted along with proof of the applicant's ownership of, or rights to transfer adequate water rights to serve the dwelling in an amount determined by the Fairfield Town Council, that amount being 1-acre-feet of culinary water rights per residential service on 2 acre lots and under; 1.25 acre feet of culinary water rights per residential service on anything greater than 2 acre lots.
B. Transfer of Water. The applicant shall also be responsible to deed the water rights to the Town and obtain approval from the State Water Engineer to transfer the point of diversion for the water right to Fairfield Town's designated point of diversion. The water right is required to be a municipal or culinary water right.
C. Building Permits and Water Applications. Plans for the new service connection must be approved by the Town Council prior to construction and a pre-construction meeting between the developer, contractor, and the Town must be conducted before any water line construction begins.
D. Plans shall be submitted and approved prior to the pre-construction meeting and shall comply with the Fairfield design standards.
E. Once approved, the owner has the option to hire a contractor or pay the Town to take the requested new service connection from its water main to the property line where the new service meter shall be located. The Town will contract with a certified drinking water system contractor to install the water line from the existing mainline to the owner’s property line. The cost of this installation will be borne by the new connection owner. If Fairfield Town deems the connection is a major extension of the system, the connection owner will secure the contractor to install the new line with Fairfield Town's approval of said contract, materials, and line size used.
F. No building permit will be issued without first completing an approved water rights transfer to the Town of Fairfield as follows:
1. If the applicant is drilling a well, proof of ownership of the required water rights shall be submitted to the Town and approved by the Town prior to issuing any building permit; and
2. There is a one (1) year time limit for completing the approval process of water transfer before the issuance of a building permit. If a water transfer is not completed within the one (1) year time limit then any reservation on said building permit for that property will be lost along with any deposit paid to hold the building permit.
G. Private Systems and Private Wells. Private water systems and the use of private wells to provide municipal water services are not allowed except at the discretion of the Town Council, in the following instances:
1. The applicant is constructing a home or place of business on a legal lot that lies farther than one thousand (1,000) feet from the current water system regardless of the actual building location on the property;
2. Allowance of the private system or private well is more compatible with the land use development goals of the Town Council (i.e. environmental preservation, construction of a necessary public facility significantly removed from the current water system, limitation of the number of dwelling units in a given area where connection to the municipal water system could result in more dwelling units than are desired by the Town Council). The Town Council is under no obligation to approve the use of a private system or private well and no precedent will be established by a previous Town Council decision;
3. The cost is prohibitive to expand the current municipal water system, connect to the current municipal water system, or create facilities capable of linking to the Fairfield Town water system; or
4. Property lies within a zone greater than one (1) acre. An existing culinary well exists on the property prior to 2010
5. If a well is used for a culinary water supply it must reside on the same parcel of land as the structure
H. Water Main Line Extensions and Connections. Waterline extensions and connections must adhere to the following:
1. It shall be unlawful for any person to make any extension of any pipe or water fixture attached to the waterworks system without first obtaining a permit from the Water Department;
2. It shall be unlawful for any person other than duly authorized employees of the department to open or close any water gate valve in connection with the water system;
3. When an applicant desires or is required to install water connections and extensions for a subdivision or development, the applicant may voluntarily extend the water main line beyond the distance required for connection. The applicant for a project which requires the extension of a water main line shall pay the cost of the extension.
4. No person shall construct a water main line extension without first having plans for the mainline extension approved by the Town Engineer:
a. The applicant shall be bound by the rules, regulations, resolutions, or ordinances enacted now or hereafter by the Town applicable to the Town's System;
b. If an applicant installs a water mainline extension to serve a parcel of property, the mainline extension shall originate at the nearest adequate, existing water main and extend completely across the parcel of property being developed along all public street frontages;
c. Boring of pipelines under roadway is required unless the town Council deems it otherwise due to extenuating circumstances;
d. The applicable cost of an extension shall include replacement of all road surface damaged or removed for installation of new extensions in accordance with the Design Guidelines and Standard Specifications of Fairfield Town;
5. The main purpose for which the new water service connection will be used must be for culinary use. The location of the service connection will be decided solely by the Town. The Town must also approve the length of the addition to the System, pipe size, and the number of fire hydrants, isolation valves, and other appurtenances as necessary installed along the line before construction of said line begins. All work shall be performed by a licensed, bonded and insured Contractor, bonded with the Town. All work shall be performed and inspected according to Fairfield construction specifications. A utility easement extending the length of the property must be recorded with Utah County;
6. Any subdivider or developer who desires or is required to install water connections and extensions for a subdivision or development must enter into a Master Development Agreement with the Town. Said agreement shall constitute an application for permission to make the extensions and connections and shall specify the terms and conditions under which the water extensions and connections shall be made. Said agreement shall also include any and all payments that shall be required. No precedent will be established by a previous Town Council agreement. Whenever an extension of a water line benefits property which is adjacent to the extension or extended from the end of an existing extension, other than that which is owned by the applicant, a Master Development Agreement may be entered into;
7. A Master Development Agreement shall include the excess capacity (if any), formula, and terms for any reimbursement. A Master Development Agreement will be identified prior to the beginning of construction. The Town will then enter a deferred credit on its books and records in the amount of the actual prorated cost of extension across the front of said benefited property and shall reimburse the applicant, his assignee or successor, upon collection by the Town of charges assessed against such benefited property as service connections are made; and
8. All such reimbursements shall extend for a period determined by the Town Council from the date of the completion of the extension and acceptance by the Town or until the initial prorated cost of the extension along the frontage not owned by the applicant shall have been refunded. The amount of an “Extension Charge '' to benefited property shall be determined by the Town Council.