A. Title And Purpose: This section shall be known as the FARMINGTON CITY CROSS CONNECTION ORDINANCE, and may be so cited. The purpose of this section is to protect the public potable water supply from contamination or pollution by isolating within its customers' internal distribution system(s) or its customers' private water system(s) such contaminants or pollutants which could backflow or back siphon into the public potable water supply system. This section is adopted pursuant to section R309-102-5 of the Utah safe drinking water rules and regulations.
B. Requirements: No water service connection to any premises within Farmington City shall be installed or maintained unless the water supply is protected. Unprotected cross connections shall not be an integral part of any consumer's water system within Farmington City. In the event a cross connection cannot be eliminated, it must be protected by the installation of an air gap or approved backflow prevention assembly/device in accordance with the provisions set forth herein.
C. Responsibilities: It shall be the responsibility of the consumer to purchase, install or cause to be installed, test and maintain any backflow prevention assembly/device required herein. It shall be the responsibility of the city public works and building departments to administer and enforce the provisions of this section to ensure compliance herewith.
D. Compliance: All connections to the Farmington City potable water system and backflow prevention devices required herein shall conform to the provisions of this section, the international plumbing code as adopted by the city, the Utah safe drinking water act, and other relevant provisions of Utah Code Annotated, as amended.
E. Enforcement: Service of water to any building or location, in the discretion of Farmington City, may be discontinued if a backflow prevention assembly required by this section is not installed, tested and maintained, if a backflow prevention assembly has been removed or bypassed, or if an unprotected cross connection exists at the building or location. In addition, water service may be terminated to any building or location when the public works director or building official determines that the service connection's water usage constitutes a sufficient hazard or risk to the water supply or to the city water system. The city shall give reasonable notice to the customer and/or owner of the building or location of the termination of water service to a building or location, and where the consumer could not reasonably be so notified before termination, then notice shall be given promptly afterwards. Service will not be restored until such conditions or defects are corrected to the requirement of this section and the satisfaction of the city.
F. Recordkeeping: Officers and employees of the public works department and the building department shall report all installations of backflow prevention devices, assemblies and methods of cross connection correction installed by or communicated to them to the public works director. The public works director shall maintain or cause to be maintained an inventory of all said assemblies, as well as test and repair records on all such assemblies, and shall be responsible for notifying customers of annual testing requirements or other enforcement requirements.
G. Omission Not Waiver: The omission to specify or enumerate in this section those provisions of general law applicable to all cities shall not be construed as a waiver of the benefits of any such provisions. (Ord. 1995-09, 3-1-1995)