(a) The customer shall prevent backflow and back-siphonage into the waterworks system by ensuring that either all cross-connections are removed or cross-connection control devices are installed, inspected, maintained and repaired.
(b) The customer shall ensure that a cross-connection control device be installed wherever necessary to prevent cross-connections to the waterworks system or any other potable water supply system. Cross-connection control devices shall be installed and maintained as provided for in the Illinois Plumbing Code and the agency's regulations and in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. The manufacturer's maintenance manual shall be available on the premises.
(c) In addition to the foregoing, the customer shall ensure that a cross-connection control device be installed on each service line to a customer's water system serving premises having any of the following conditions:
(1) Premises for which the superintendent of water makes an independent determination that actual or potential hazards to the waterworks system exist;
(2) Premises having an auxiliary water supply, unless such auxiliary supply is accepted as an additional source by the superintendent of water and the source is approved by the agency;
(3) Premises on which any substance is handled which can create an actual or potential hazard to the waterworks system. This shall include premises having sources or systems containing process fluids or waters originating from the waterworks system that are no longer under the sanitary control of the superintendent of water;
(4) Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of the superintendent of water and/or the cross-connection control device inspector, are not correctable;
(5) Premises having intricate plumbing arrangements that make it impractical to determine whether or not cross-connections exist;
(6) Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross-connection survey; or
(7) Premises having a repeated history of cross-connections being established or re-established.
(d) An approved cross-connection control device shall be installed, on each service line to a customer's water system serving, but not necessarily limited to, the following types of facilities, unless the superintendent of water determines that no actual or potential hazard to the waterworks 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;
(11) Pesticide, herbicide or extermination plants and trucks;
(12) Farm service and fertilizer plants and trucks; or
(13) All underground sprinkler systems.
(e) Cross-connection control devices shall be inspected at the time of installation and at least annually, or more frequently if recommended by the manufacturer, by a cross-connection control device inspector. The inspection of mechanical devices shall include physical testing in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.
(f) Each cross-connection control device shall have a tag attached listing the date of the most recent test or visual inspection, the name of the cross-connection control device inspector, and the type and date of repairs.
(g) (1) A maintenance log shall be maintained and include:
A. Date of each test or visual inspection;
B. Name and approval number of the person performing the test or visual inspection;
C. Test results;
D. Repairs or servicing required;
E. Repairs and date completed; and
F. Servicing performed and date completed.
(2) The cross-connection control device inspector shall report test results to the village by the test due date, in a manner determined by the village’s director of public works and publicized through an annual notice to customers.
(h) The installation, inspection and maintenance of all cross-connection control devices shall be at the sole cost and expense of the customer. Whenever cross-connection control devices required by these regulations are defective, they shall be repaired or replaced at the sole cost and expense of the customer without delay.
(i) Cross-connection control devices shall not be bypassed, made inoperative, removed or otherwise made ineffective without specific authorization by the superintendent of water.
(Ord. No. 90-14-1823; Ord. No. 2023-31-3576)