A. Policy:
1. No water service connection to any premises shall be installed or maintained by the Water Purveyor unless the water supply is protected as required by State laws, regulations, codes, and this chapter shall be discontinued by the water purveyor after due process of written notifications of violation and an appropriate time suspense for voluntary compliance, if:
a. A back-flow prevention assembly required by this chapter for the control of back-flow and cross connections is not installed, tested, and maintained, or
b. If it is found that a back-flow prevention assembly has been removed or by-passed, or
c. If an unprotected cross connection exist on the premises, or
d. If the periodic system survey has not been conducted.
e. Service will not be restored until such conditions or defects are corrected.
2. The customer's system(s) shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times to authorized representatives of the water purveyor to determine whether cross connections or other structural or sanitary hazards, including violation of this ordinance exist and to audit the results of the required survey (R309.105.12 of the Utah Administrative Code).
3. Whenever the public water purveyor deems a service connection's water usage contributes a sufficient hazard to the water supply, and approved back-flow prevention assembly shall be installed on the service line of the identified consumer's water system, at or near the property line or immediately inside the building being served; but, in all cases, before the first branch line leading off the service line.
4. The type of protective assembly required under subsection A.3, shall depend upon the degree of hazard which exist at the point of cross connection (whether direct or indirect), applicable to local and state requirements or resulting from the required survey.
5. All presently installed back-flow prevention assemblies which do not meet the requirements of this section but were approved assemblies for the purposes described herein at the time of installation and which have been properly maintained, shall except for the inspection and maintenance requirements under subsection A.6, be excluded from the requirements of these rules so long as the water purveyor is assured that they will satisfactorily protect the public watersystem. Whenever the existing is moved from the present location or, requires more than minimum maintenance or, when the water purveyor finds that the operation or of this assembly constitutes a hazard to health, the unit shall be replaced by an approved back-flow prevention assembly meeting all local and state requirements.
6. It shall be the responsibility of the consumer at any premises where back-flow prevention assemblies are installed to have certified surveys; inspections, and operational test made at least once per year at the consumer's expense. In those instances where the Public Water Purveyor deems the hazard to be great, he may require certified surveys/inspections and test at a more frequent interval. It shall be the duty of the purveyor to see that thee test are made according to the standards set forth by the State Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Drinking Water.
7. All back-flow prevention assemblies shall be tested within ten (10) working days of installation.
8. No back-flow prevention assemblies shall be installed so as to create a safety hazard. (Example: Installed over and electrical panel, steam pipes, boilers, or above ceiling level).
B. Violation Of This Policy: If violation of this chapter exist of if there has not been any corrective action taken by the consumer within ten (10) days of the written notification of the deficiencies noted within the survey or test results, then the water purveyor shall deny or immediately discontinue service to the premises by providing a physical break in the service line until the customer has corrected the condition(s) in conformance with all State and local regulations and statutes relating to plumbing, safe drinking water suppliers, and this chapter. (Ord. 2020- 07, 12-2-2020)