(A) The purpose of this subchapter is to define the authority of the Public Works Department of the town as the water purveyor in the elimination of all cross-connections within its potable water supply.
(B) This subchapter shall apply to all users connected to the public works public potable water supply regardless of whether the user is located within the city limits or outside the city limits.
(C) This subchapter will comply with the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act (Pub. Law No. 93-523) being 42 U.S.C. §§ 300f et seq. and the state’s Building Code (Volume II), as they pertain to cross- connections with the public water supply.
(D) The specific objectives of this cross- connection control subchapter for the Public Works Department of the town are as follows:
(1) To protect the public potable water supply of the town against actual or potential contamination by isolating within the consumer’s water system, contaminants or pollutants which would, under adverse conditions, backflow through uncontrolled cross-connections in to the public water system;
(2) To eliminate or control existing cross- connections, actual or potential, between the consumer’s potable water system and non-potable or industrial piping systems; and
(3) To provide a continuing inspection program of cross-connection control which will systematically and effectively control all actual or potential cross-connections which may be installed in the future.
(Ord. passed 9-14-2004)