(A) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed prior to the first branch line leading off each service line to a consumer's water system where, in the judgement of the public water supplier, an actual or potential hazard to the public water supply system exists.
(B) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system where the following conditions exist:
(1) Systems having an auxiliary water supply, unless such auxiliary supply is accepted as an additional source by the public water supplier and approved by DEP.
(2) Systems where any substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the public water supply system. This shall include systems having sources or auxiliary systems, which contain process fluids or waters originating from the public water supply system, which are no longer under the sanitary control of the water purveyor.
(3) Systems having internal cross-connections that are not correctable, or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impractical to determine whether or not cross-connections exist.
(4) Systems where, because of security requirements or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross-connection survey.
(5) Systems located on properties which have a swimming pool, lawn irrigation system, fire sprinkler system, or where there is a home based business conducted that presents a potential risk to health and an adverse effect upon the public water supply system.
(6) Systems having a repeated history of cross-connections.
(7) Others specified by the public water supplier.
(C) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving, but not necessarily limited to, the following types of facilities unless the public water supplier determines that no actual or potential hazards to the public water supply system exist:
(1) Hospitals, mortuaries, clinics, nursing homes;
(2) Laboratories;
(3) Piers, docks, waterfront facilities;
(4) Sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping station or storm water pumping station;
(5) Food or beverage processing plants;
(6) Chemical plants;
(7) Metal plating industries;
(8) Petroleum processing or storage plants;
(9) Radioactive material processing plants; j. car wash or truck wash; or
(10) Others specified by the water purveyor.
(Ord. 1447, passed 10-16-2017) Penalty, see § 53.999