The purpose of this cross-connection control article is:
(A) This article will comply with the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act (PL 93-523), the North Carolina State Administrative Code (15A NCAC 08C), and the North Carolina State Building Code (Volume II) as they pertain to cross connections with the public water supply.
(B) To protect the public potable water supply of the city from the possibility of contamination or pollution, due to back-siphonage or backpressure, by isolation within the consumer's private water system such contaminants or pollutants, that could introduce backflow into the public water system.
(C) To define the authority of the city as the water purveyor entitled to eliminating all cross-connections, new or existing, within its public water system.
(D) To provide a continuing inspection program of cross-connections, this may be installed in the future.
(Ord. 18-08-16, passed 8-14-18)