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The Environmental Protection Agency, United States and State of Ohio require the City to protect the public water system from cross connection and backflow. (Public Law 93-523 and OAC 3745-95) Section 921.28 requires such safeguards be implemented to insure system protection. If in the judgment of the Director, the integrity of the public water system is, or can be, endangered by backflow from an actual or a potential cross connection within the plumbing system of a water consumer, the Director may order the installation of an approved backflow prevention method or device consisting of either an air-gap, double sanitary check valve assembly, vacuum breaker, reduced pressure principle backflow preventer or any combination thereof at the water service connection to the premise.
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
(a) If, in the judgment of the Director, an approved backflow prevention device is necessary for the safety of the public water system, the Director shall give notice to the water consumer to install such an approved device immediately. The water consumer shall, at his own expense, install such an approved device at a location and in a manner approved by the Director and shall have inspections and tests made of such approved device as required by the Director.
(b) No person, firm or corporation shall establish or permit to be established or maintain or permit to be maintained any connection whereby a private, auxiliary or emergency water supply other than the regular public water supply of the City may enter the supply or distributing system of such Municipality, unless such private, auxiliary or emergency water supply and the method of connection and use of such supply shall have been approved by the Director and by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) It shall be the duty of the Director to cause surveys and investigations to be made of industrial and other properties served by the public water supply where actual or potential hazards to the public water supply may exist. Such surveys and investigations shall be made a matter of public record and shall be repeated as often as the Director deems necessary.
(d) The Director or his or her duly authorized representative shall have the right to enter at any reasonable time any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distributing system of the City for the purpose of inspecting the piping system or systems thereof. On demand the owner, lessees or occupants of any property so served shall furnish to the Director any information which he/she may request regarding the piping system or systems or water use on such property. The refusal of such information, when demanded, shall, within the discretion of the Director, be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connections as provided in this section.
(e) The Director is hereby authorized and directed to discontinue, after reasonable notice to the occupant thereof, the water service to any property wherein any connection in violation of the provisions of this section is known to exist, and to take such other precautionary measures as he/she may deem necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination of the public water supply distribution mains. Water service to such property shall not be restored until such conditions shall have been eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 938. Passed 2-7-84.)
(a) No person shall install or maintain a water service connection to any premises where actual or potential cross-connections to a public water system or a potable consumer's water system may exist unless such actual or potential cross connections are abated or controlled to the satisfaction of the Director of the Water Department.
(b) No person shall install or maintain any connection whereby water from an auxiliary water system may enter a public water system or potable consumer's water system unless the auxiliary water system and the method on connection and use of such system shall have been approved by the Director and by the Ohio E.P.A. as required by Ohio R.C. 6111.15.
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
(a) The Director of the Water Department or his authorized representative, shall have the right to enter premises served by the public water system at all reasonable times for the purpose of making surveys and investigations of water use practices within the premises.
(b) On request by the Director or his authorized representative, the consumer shall furnish the water purveyor or his authorized representative information on water use practices within the customer's premises.
(c) Subsection (a) hereof does not relieve the consumer of the responsibility for conducting, or causing to be conducted, periodic surveys of water use practices on his premises to determine whether there are actual or potential cross connections in the consumer's water system through which contaminants or pollutants could backflow into a public water system.
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
(a) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving premises, where there is, in the judgment of the Director of the Water Department or the Ohio E.P.A., a real or potential health, pollution or system hazard to the public water system.
(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 exists:
(1) Premises having an auxiliary water system, unless such auxiliary system is accepted as an additional source by the Director and the source is approved by the Ohio E.P.A.;
(2) Premises on which any substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to a public water system. This shall include premises having sources or systems containing process fluids or waters originating from a public water system which are no longer under the control of the water purveyor;
(3) Premises having internal cross connections that, in the judgment of the Director, are not correctable or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impracticable to determine whether or not cross connections exist;
(4) Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross connection survey;
(5) Premises having a repeated history of cross connections being established or re-established; or
(6) Others specified by the Director or the Ohio E.P.A.
(c) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed at any point of connection between a public water system or a potable consumer's water system and an auxiliary water system, unless such auxiliary system is accepted as an additional source by the Director and the source is approved by the Ohio E.P.A.
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
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