(A) Water Superintendent.
(1) The Water Superintendent will operate a cross connection control program which fulfills the requirements of the city Utility Board.
(2) On new installations, the Superintendent will require an RP to be installed on the service line to the facility. The RP information and any exemptions allowed will be tracked by the Superintendent.
(3) For premises existing prior to the start of the initial Ordinance 2009-23 Cross Connection Policy, the Superintendent will inspect facilities and inform the customer by letter of any correction to be made. Ordinarily, 60 days will be allowed for corrective action to occur or a compliance schedule to be agreed upon. The time period may be shortened depending upon the degree of hazard involved and the history of the device(s) in question.
(4) The Superintendent shall inform the customer by letter of any failure to comply. The Superintendent will allow an additional 15 days for correction. In the event the customer fails to comply with the necessary correction by the time of the second re-inspection, the Superintendent will inform the customer by letter that the water service to the customer's premises will be terminated within a period not to exceed five days. In the event that the customer informs the Superintendent of extenuating circumstances as to why the correction has not been made, a time extension may be granted by the Superintendent.
(5) If the Superintendent determines at any time that a serious threat to the public health exists, the water service will be terminated immediately.
(6) The Superintendent shall have on file a list of private contractors who are certified backflow device testers. All charges for these tests will be paid by the customer of the building or property.
(B) Customer.
(1) The customer shall be responsible for the elimination or protection of all cross connections on their premises.
(2) The customer shall allow his or her property to be inspected for possible cross connections and shall follow the provisions of this policy.
(3) The customer, after having been informed by a letter from the Water Superintendent, shall at his or her expense install, maintain, and test or have tested any and all backflow preventers on his or her premises.
(4) The customer shall correct any malfunction of the backflow preventer which is revealed by periodic testing.
(5) The customer shall inform the Superintendent of any proposed or modified cross connections and also any existing cross connections of which the customer is aware but has not been found by the Superintendent.
(6) The customer shall not install a bypass around any backflow preventer unless there is a backflow preventer of the same type on the bypass. Customers who cannot shut down operation for testing of the device(s) must supply additional devices necessary to allow testing to take place.
(7) The customer shall install backflow preventers in accordance with 327 I.A.C. 8-10-7 or in a manner approved by the Superintendent. The customer shall install only backflow preventers approved by 327 I.A.C. 8-10-7(b) or by the Superintendent.
(8) No water piping supplied by any private water supply shall be connected to the public water supply.
(9) The customer shall be responsible for the payment of any and all devices being tested, repaired, or retested in the case that device fails to operate.
(10) Nothing herein shall release the customer of the responsibility for conducting periodic surveys of water use practices on his or her premises to determine whether there are any actual or potential uncontrolled cross connections within the customer's water system through which contaminants could backflow into his or her own and/or the public water supply systems.
(Ord. 2009-23, passed 8-18-2009; Am. Ord. 2013-34, passed 10-24-2013)