(A) No person shall connect to, add to, or in any manner join, a line to the city water service unless all pipes, fittings, valves and all other parts of that which is joined, added or connected meets A.W.W.A. standards in effect at the time of such connection, addition or junction.
(B) There shall be an isolation area around all city wells measured with a 200 foot radius around each well. There shall be no potential sources of ground water contamination within any such isolation area, including, but not limited to, storm and sanitary sewer pipelines, seepage points, leaching beds, barnyards or surface water and/or any other use or facility that may result in contamination of ground water. No property owner shall use or permit his/her property to be used in a manner which violates this section. In addition to any other penalty, any violation of this section shall be considered a public nuisance.
(C) In addition to any other remedies available, the City Council may, after notice and holding a public hearing, direct the owner of the land where a public nuisance under division (B) of this section is located, to abate the condition, structure or use that creates such public nuisance. The City Council may afford the property owner time to abate the public nuisance. If the owner does not abate the public nuisance within the time directed, the City Council may direct the city to abate the public nuisance with the cost of such being charged against the premises and the property owner. If the Director of Public Works determines that a public nuisance in violation of division (B) of this section is such that public safety requires immediate action, without order of City Council, he/she may direct the city immediately abate such public nuisance with the costs of the same being charged against the property and the property owner.
(1979 Code, § 2.34) (Ord. 108, passed 12-18-1990; Ord. 198, passed 9-6-2016) Penalty, see § 51.99