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(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.)
(a) The type of protection required under Section 921.31(a), (b) and (c) shall depend on the degree of hazard which exists as follows:
(1) An approved air gap separation shall be installed where a public water system may be contaminated with substances that could cause a severe health hazard.
(2) An approved air gap separation or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device shall be installed where a public water system may be contaminated with any substance that could cause a system or health hazard.
(3) An approved air gap separation or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device or an approved double check valve assembly shall be installed where a public water system may be polluted with any substance that could cause a pollution hazard.
(b) The type of protection required under Section 921.31(c) shall be an approved air gap separation or an approved interchangeable connection.
(c) Where an auxiliary water system is used as a secondary source of water for a fire protection system, the provisions of subsection (b) hereof for an approved air gap separation or an approved interchangeable connection may be waived by the Director of the Water Department and the Ohio E.P.A. provided:
(1) At premises where the auxiliary water system may be contaminated with substances that could cause a system or health hazard, a public water system or a potable consumer's water system shall be protected against backflow by installation of an approved reduced pressure principle backflow device.
(2) At all other premises, a public water system or a potable consumer's water system shall be protected against backflow by installation of either an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention device or an approved double check valve assembly.
(3) A public water system or a potable consumer's water system shall be the primary source of water for the fire protection system.
(4) The fire protection system shall be normally filled with water from a public water system or a potable consumer's water system.
(5) The water in the fire protection system shall be used for fire protection only, with no other use of water from the fire protection system downstream from the approved backflow prevention device.
(d) Types of Backflow Protection Required: Domestic Water Services.
(1) An approved backflow prevention device of the type designated shall be installed on each domestic water service connection to the following types of facilities unless the Director determines that no real or potential health, pollution or system hazard to the public water system exists. This list is presented as a guideline and should not be construed as being complete.
Abbreviations used are as follows:
A.G. - Air Gap Separation
R.P. - Reduced Pressure Principle Backflow Preventer
D.C. - Double Check Valve Backflow Preventer
Type of Facility | Minimum Type of Protection |
Breweries, distilleries, bottling plants | D.C. |
Car wash with recycling system and/or wax eductor | R.P. |
Chemical plants | R.P. |
Dairies | D.C. |
Dentist office | R.P. |
Fertilizer plants | R.P. |
Film laboratory or processing plant | R.P. |
Food or beverage plant | D.C. |
Hospitals, clinics, medical buildings | R.P. |
Laboratories | R.P. |
Laundries and dry cleaning plants | D.C. |
Machine tool plants (health or system hazard) | R.P. |
Machine tool plants (pollution hazard) | D.C. |
Metal processing plant (health or system hazard) | R.P. |
Metal processing plant (pollution hazard) | D.C. |
Metal plating plant | R.P. |
Morgues or mortuaries | R.P. |
Nursing homes | R.P. |
Packing houses or rendering plants | R.P. |
Paper products plant | R.P. |
Petroleum processing plant | R.P. |
Petroleum storage yard (health or system hazard) | R.P. |
Petroleum storage yard (pollution hazard) | D.C. |
Pharmaceutical or cosmetic plant | R.P. |
Piers, docks or waterfront facilities | R.P. |
Power plants | R.P. |
Radioactive material plants | R.P. |
Restaurants, with soap eductors and/or industrial type disposal | R.P. |
Sand and gravel plants | D.C. |
Schools with laboratories having acid wastes | R.P. |
Sprinkling or irrigation systems | R.P. |
Swimming pools with piped fill line (at pool) | A.G. |
Sewage treatment plants | R.P. |
Sewage pumping stations (health or system hazard) | R.P. |
Veterinary establishments | R.P. |
Others specified by the Superintendent. | |
(2) In addition to and including those types of facilities listed in subsection (d)(1) hereof, an approved backflow prevention device of the type designated shall be installed on each domestic water service connection to any premises containing the following real or potential hazards.
Minimum Type of Protection | |
Premises having an auxiliary water system not connected to public water system | R.P. |
Premises having a water storage tank, reservoir, pond or similar appurtenance | R.P. |
Premises having a steam boiler, cooling system or hot water heating system where chemical water conditioners are used | R.P. |
Premises having submerged inlets to equipment | R.P. |
Premises having self-draining yard hydrants, fountains, hose boxes or similar devices presenting a health or system hazard (such as chemical storage plants, tank farms, bulk storage yards) | R.P. |
Premises having self-draining yard hydrants, fountains, hose boxes or similar devices presenting a pollution hazard (such as parks, play fields, cemeteries) | D.C. |
Others specified by the Superintendent | |
(e) Type of Backflow Protection Required: Fire Protection Services. An approved backflow prevention device of the type designated shall be installed on each fire protection service to any premises where the fire protection system contains any of the following components unless the Director determines that no real or potential health, pollution or system hazard to the public water system exists.
Fire System Component | Minimum Type of Protection |
(1) Auxiliary water system | |
(2) Anti-freeze kegs | R.P. |
(3) Self-draining fire hydrants on premises presenting a health or system hazard (such as chemical plants, petroleum storage plants, bulk storage yards, stock yards, sewer plants or similar facilities where ground seepage of toxic materials may occur
| R.P. |
(4) Self-draining fire hydrants on premises presenting a pollution hazard (such as apartment house, office complex, fabricating plants or similar facilities where ground seepage of pollution but not toxic materials may occur
| D.C. |
(5) Covered gravity or pressure storage tanks filled with water from the public system
| D.C. |
(6) Uncovered storage tanks or reservoirs
| R.P. |
(7) Others specified by the Director.
| |
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
(a) No person shall install or maintain a water service connection to any premises where a booster pump has been installed on the service line to or within such premises, unless such booster pump is equipped with a low pressure cut-off designed to shut-off the booster pump when the pressure in the service line on the suction-side of the pump drops to ten pounds per square inch gauge or less.
(b) It shall be the duty of the water consumer to maintain the low pressure cut-off device in proper working order and to certify to the Director of the Water Department that the device is operable.
(c) The low pressure cut-off control for fire pumps shall conform to the Ohio E.P.A. "Specification for Low Suction Pressure Cut-Off Control for Stationary Fire Pumps".
(d) The low pressure cut-off control for domestic pumps shall conform to the Ohio E.P.A. "Specification for Low Suction Cut-Off Control for Stationary Domestic Booster Pumps".
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
(a) Any backflow prevention device required by regulations HE-34-05 and HE-34-06 of the Ohio Sanitary Code and the Director of the Water Department shall be of a model or construction approved by the Director and the Ohio E.P.A.
(b) Any backflow prevention device required shall be installed at a location and in a manner approved by the Director and shall be installed by, and at the expense of, the water consumer. In addition, any backflow prevention device required by divisions (B) and (C) of Regulation HE-34-06 of the Ohio Sanitary Code and Section 921.32(b) and (c) shall be installed at a location and in a manner approved by the Ohio E.P.A., as required by Ohio R.C. 6111.15.
(c) It shall be the duty of the consumer, on any premises on which backflow prevention devices are required by Regulation HE-34-05 and HE-34-06 of the Ohio Sanitary Code or the Water Department Rules and Regulations are installed, to have thorough inspections and operational tests made of the devices at such intervals and in such manner as may be required by the Director, Clermont County General Health District or the Ohio E.P.A. These inspections and tests shall be at the expense of the water consumer and shall be performed by a person approved by the water purveyor as qualified to inspect and test backflow prevention devices. It shall be the duty of the water purveyor to see that these tests and inspections are made. These devices shall be repaired, overhauled or replaced at the expense of the consumer whenever they are found to be defective. Records of such inspections, tests, repairs and overhaul shall be kept by the consumer and made available to the Director.
(d) Backflow prevention devices shall be tested during normal business hours. Manifold or dual settings of the devices should be considered for premises requiring uninterrupted water service. Backflow prevention devices set in manifold shall meet the minimum flow requirements of a single device of the proper size.
(e) Existing backflow prevention devices approved by the Director or the Ohio E.P.A., prior to the effective date of this regulation, and which are properly maintained shall, except for inspection, testing and maintenance requirements, be excluded from the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) hereof if the Director and the Ohio E.P.A. are assured that the devices shall satisfactorily protect the public water system.
(f) It shall be the responsibility of the consumer to obtain at his expense any permits for installation or testing of needed or existing backflow prevention devices. Such permits shall be obtained from the department or firm contracted by the City to perform internal plumbing inspections.
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
Ohio R.C. 729.49 and 729.52, provides the legal authority of cities to establish rates to be paid for water service.
(a) Council established the rates to be paid for water services via the adoption of an ordinance specifying same. Water rates shall conform at all times to the applicable ordinance.
(b) Water rates reflect the true cost of providing water service which includes operation and maintenance of the distribution system, treatment plant, personnel, administration and debt service, capital improvements and replacements.
(Ord. 91-1404. Passed 11-5-91.)
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