(A) An approved backflow device shall be installed on all connections to the public water supply as described in the State Plumbing Code, 77 Illinois Administrative Code 890, and the State Drinking Water Systems Code, 77 Illinois Administrative Code 900, or as hereafter amended. In addition, an approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer’s water system serving premises where, in the judgment of the Superintendent of the Water Department, actual or potential hazards to the public water supply system exist.
(B) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer’s water system serving premises where the following conditions exist:
(1) Premises having an auxiliary water supply, unless that auxiliary supply is accepted as an additional source by the Superintendent of the Water Department and the source is approved by the State Environmental Protection Agency;
(2) Premises on which any substance is handled which can create an actual or potential hazard to the public water supply system. This shall include premises having sources or systems containing process fluids or waters originating from the public water supply system which are no longer under the sanitary control of the Superintendent;
(3) Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of the Superintendent or the cross-connection-control device inspector, are not correctable, or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impractical to determine whether or not cross-connection exists;
(4) Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross-connection survey; and
(5) Premises having a repeated history of cross-connection being established or re-established.
(C) An approved backflow device shall be installed on all connections to the public water supply as described in the State Plumbing Code, 77 Illinois Administrative Code 890, and the State Drinking Water Systems Code, 77 Illinois Administrative Code 900, or as hereafter amended. In addition, an approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer’s water system serving, but not necessarily limited to, the following types of facilities unless the Superintendent of the Water Department determines that no actual or potential hazard to the public water system exists:
(1) Hospitals, mortuaries, clinics, nursing homes;
(2) Laboratories;
(3) Piers, docks, waterfront facilities;
(4) Sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping stations, or storm water pumping stations;
(5) Food or beverage processing plants;
(6) Chemical plants;
(7) Metal plating industries;
(8) Petroleum processing or storage plants;
(9) Radioactive material processing plants or nuclear reactors;
(10) Car washes;
(11) Pesticide or herbicide or extermination plants and trucks; and
(12) Farm service and fertilizer plants and trucks.
(1983 Code, § 21-184) (Ord. 2833, passed 3-4-1999) Penalty, see § 52.99