(A) The following shall be classified as high-health hazards:
(1) High-health hazards include, but are not limited to: pumps, tanks or any other container for conveying, storing or otherwise handling sewage, radioactive, lethal, or toxic substances, boiler and steam connections, sewer waste lines, low inlets to receptacles containing toxic substances, coils or jackets used as heat exchangers, bacterial and viral materials, private wells or other private water supply, irrigation systems, water systems or hose connections with booster pumps such as fire department connections (FDC) and private hydrants used in conjunction with FDCs, carbonation equipment, any use involving the mixing or dosage of chemicals or similar high-health hazard potential as determined by the City.
(2) Any facility that contains, but is not limited to, a bottling plant, cannery, five or more building stories, battery manufacturer, exterminator, lawn care companies, greenhouse, chemical processing plant, dairy, dye works, film laboratory, commercial car wash, hospital, other medical and dental facilities (that administer medications or process x-rays), veterinary offices, commercial laboratory, dry cleaners, tattoo parlor, metal fabricating operation, mortuary, swimming pool, morgue, packing house, plating plant, power plant, nuclear reactor, fire sprinkler systems equipped with booster pumps, fire department connection (FDC) and/or freeze preventive chemicals or other substances other than water.
(3) Any facility at which the City does not have sufficient access to allow a complete evaluation of the degree of hazard associated with the use of water within that facility or private water distribution system.
(B) All facilities classified as high-health hazards must have a containment assembly in the form of a reduced pressure principal assembly (RPPA) installed in accordance with this subchapter.
(C) Any person who fills any tank or tanker from the public water supply shall have an approved reduced pressure principal assembly (RPPA) on the tank or tanker and an air gap. Tanks or tankers include but are not limited to the following: those containing pesticides, fertilizers, or other toxic chemicals or their residues; flush trucks; street sweepers; and non-potable water tankers.
(Ord. 24-O-02, passed 2-26-2024)