The property owner shall be responsible for the protection of customer's potable water system. For the elimination of or protection from all cross connection on their premises. The owner shall, at their expense, install, maintain, and test any and all backflow preventers on their premises in compliance with Department of Public Water and the Utilities Cross Connection Control Manual. The property owner shall have corrected any malfunction, revealed by periodic testing, of any backflow preventer on their premises. The property owner shall inform the utility of any proposed or modified cross-connections and also any existing cross-connections that are not protected by an approved backflow prevention means. The property owner shall not install a by-pass around any backflow preventer unless there is a backflow preventer of the same type in the by-pass. Property owners who cannot shut down operation for testing of the backflow prevention assembly must supply additional assembly necessary to allow testing to take place. In the event the properly owner installs potable water using fixtures, equipment or appurtenances upstream of a backflow preventer, such must have its own approved backflow prevention means. The property owner is required to follow the protection practices described in the American Water Works Association publication AWWA M14 titled Recommended Practice for Backflow Prevention and Cross-Connection Control, United States Environmental Protection Agency titled Cross Connection Control Manual and the Utilities Cross Connection Control Manual; unless the utility requires or authorizes other means of protecting the potable water system. These requirements or authorizations will be at the discretion of the utility.
(Ord. 2670, passed - -) Penalty, see § 53.999