941.05 WHERE PROTECTION IS REQUIRED.

   (a)    An approved backflow preventer shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving premises, where in the judgment of the Director of Public Utilities, actual or potential hazards to the public potable water system exist.

   (b)   An approved backflow preventer shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving premises where the following conditions exist:

      (1)    Premises having an auxiliary water supply, unless such auxiliary supply is accepted as an additional source by the Director of Public Utilities and the source is approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

      (2)    Premises on which any substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the public potable water system. This shall include premises having sources or systems containing process fluids or waters originating from the public potable water system which are no longer under the sanitary control of the Director of Public Utilities.

      (3)    Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of the Director of Public Utilities, are not correctable or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impractical to determine whether or not cross-connections exist.

      (4)    Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross- connection survey.

      (5)    Premises having a repeated history of cross-connections being established or re-established.

      (6)    Others as specified by the Director of Public Utilities.

   (c)   An approved backflow preventer 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 Director of Public Utilities determines that no actual or potential hazard to the public potable water system exists:

      (1)    Hospitals, mortuaries, clinics, nursing homes;

      (2)    Laboratories;

      (3)    Sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping station or storm water pumping station;

      (4)    Food or beverage processing plants;

      (5)    Chemical plants;

      (6)    Metal plating industries;

      (7)    Petroleum processing or storage plants;

      (8)   Radioactive material processing plants or nuclear reactors;

      (9)    Car wash;

      (10)    All other commercial, industrial and residential occupancies where specifically deemed necessary by the Director of Public Utilities;

      (11)    Others as specified by the Director of Public Utilities.

   (d)   An approved backflow preventer shall be installed at any point of connection between the public potable or consumer's water system and an auxiliary water supply, unless such auxiliary supply is accepted as an additional source by the Director of Public Utilities and the source is approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

(Ord. 87-4-36. Passed 4-22-87.)