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No person being the owner or occupant of any dwelling house, factory or place of business in the City shall use or furnish, or permit to be used, for human consumption by his or her family, guests, servants or employees, or by any person permitted in the dwelling house, factory or place of business, any water supplied from any spring nor from any well, unless the well shall have been inspected by or under the direction of the Department of Public Health, and unless the Department of Public Health shall have caused a certificate to be issued showing that the supply of water from the well is fit for human consumption.
(Ord. 9, passed 8-21-1917)
It shall be unlawful for any person being the owner or in charge of any dwelling house, factory or place of business in the City to lease or continue to lease the same to another person to use, or to permit the use of the dwelling house, factory or place of business by another person, if the water supply intended for human consumption by the occupants of the dwelling house, factory or place of business shall not be supplied from the waterworks system of the City, or from a well the water of which shall have been inspected by or under the direction of the Department of Public Health and a certificate issued by the Department of Public Health showing that the water supply is fit for human consumption.
(Ord. 9, passed 8-21-1917)
Any well designed for the supply of water for human consumption in the City which may, after inspection by the Department of Public Health, or its duly authorized representatives, be found to be unwholesome and contaminated with disease germs, is hereby declared to be and constitute a nuisance and dangerous to the public health of the City. The Director of Public Health is hereby authorized and empowered to abate the nuisance, or direct the same to be abated by destroying the well or in any manner that may in the opinion of the Director of Public Health be proper to prevent the further use of the water supply from that well, and any person participating in such abatement proceedings shall incur no liability therefor.
(Ord. 9, passed 8-21-1917)
(a) Water shall be pronounced unfit for human consumption:
(1) When the total number of bacteria in the water exceeds 100 per cubic centimeter; provided that the water shall be planted on standard agar plates, incubated 24 hours at 37°C temperature, and that the estimate shall be made from not less than two such plates; and
(2) When the organisms of the colon bacillus group are present in one cubic centimeter or in at least two of every three 10-cubic centimeter portions of such water, planted in fermentation tubes containing lactose peptone broth, within 24 hours of incubation at 37°C.
(b) The following shall be considered sufficient evidence of the presence of organisms of the colon bacillus group within 24 hours of incubation at 37°C:
(1) The appearance of red, acid forming colonies of bacteria on Endo’s medium plates; and
(2) The formation of gas in fermentation tubes containing lactose peptone broth.
(c) The culture medium used for these tests shall be prepared in accordance with standard methods of water analysis of the American Public Health Association, as set forth in the last revision of Standard Methods of Water Analysis.
(Ord. 9, passed 8-21-1917)
It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with the Department of Public Health or its duly authorized representatives in the inspection of water supply of any premises in the City, or to prevent such inspection, or to prevent the abatement of a nuisance created by an unwholesome and contaminated water supply.
(Ord. 9, passed 8-21-1917)
DIVISION 3. FLUORIDATION OF WATER SUPPLY
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