(A) Purpose.
(1) To protect the public potable water supply served by the City Public Works Department from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating, within its customer’s internal distribution system, such contaminants or pollutants which could backflow or backsiphon into the public water system.
(2) To promote the elimination of, or control of, existing cross-connections, actual or potential, between the potable water system and source or non-potable water or other hazardous substances.
(3) To provide for the maintenance of a continuing program of cross-connection control which will effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of all potable water systems by cross-connections.
(B) Authority.
(1) The Federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, and the Statutes of the State of Oregon, O.A.R. 333-61-070 (Program Requirements), 333-61-071 (Installation Standards), and 333-61- 072 (Certification), state that the water supplier has the primary responsibility for preventing water from unapproved sources, or any other substances, from entering the public potable water system.
(2) The City Water Department rules and regulations as described in City Charter, ordinance numbers 372 and 392.
(C) Responsibility.
(1) The Administrator or designee shall be responsible for the protection of the public potable water distribution system from contamination or pollution due to the backflow or backsiphonage of contaminants or pollutants through the water service connection. If, in the judgment of the Administrator or designee, an approved backflow device is required at the city's water connection to any customer's remise, the Administrator, or designee, shall give notice in writing to said customer to install an approved backflow prevention device at each service connection to the customer's premise.
(2) The customer shall, within 90 days of notification, install such approved device, or devices, at his or her own expense. Failure, refusal, or inability on the part of the customer to install, have tested, and maintain said device or devices within 90 days, shall constitute grounds for discontinuing water service to the premises until such device or devices have been properly installed and tested.
(Prior Code, § 52.01) (Ord. 97-464, passed 3-3-1997; Ord. 476, passed 1-10-2000; Ord. 566-2024, passed 6-3-2024)