(a) No firm, person, or corporation shall establish or permit to be established or maintain or permit to be maintained any connection whereby a private, auxiliary or emergency water supply other than the regular public water supply of Groveport, Ohio may enter the supply or distributing system of such municipality, unless such private, auxiliary, or emergency water supply and the method of connection and use of such supply shall have been approved by the Administrator.
(b) That it shall be the duty of the Administrator to cause surveys and investigations to be made of all industrial and other properties served by the public water supply where private, auxiliary or emergency water supplies other than the public water supply are known to exist or where such supplies are likely to exist. Such surveys and investigations shall be made a matter orf public record and shall be repeated as often as the Administrator shall deem necessary.
(c) That the Administrator or his or its duly authorized representative shall have the right to enter at any time any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distribution system of Groveport, Ohio for the purposes of inspecting the piping system or systems thereof. On demand the owner, lessee, or occupants of any property so served shall furnish to the Administrator any information which he or it may request regarding the piping system or systems and any private, auxiliary or emergency water supply used or useful on such property. The refusal of such information, when demanded shall within the discretion of the Administrator be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connections as provided in this chapter.
(d) That the Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to discontinue after reasonable notice to the occupant thereof, the water service to any property wherein any connection in violation of the provisions of this chapter is known to exist, and to take such other precautionary measures he may deem necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination of the public water supply distribution mains water service to such property shall not be restored until such connection or connections shall have been eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 2022-029. Passed 8-22-22.)