A. Water System:
1. The water system shall be considered as made up of two (2) parts: the city system and the customer system.
2. The city system shall consist of the source facilities and the distribution system, and shall include all those facilities of the water system under complete control of the city, from the source of supply up to the point where the customer's system begins. The city system shall include all components of the facilities utilized in the production, treatment, storage and the delivery of water to the distribution system.
3. The distribution system shall include the network of conduits used for the delivery of water from the source to the customer's system.
4. The customer's system shall include any and all water infrastructure on the customer's side of the city's water meter. In the event that a city water meter does not exist, the customer's system shall begin at the point of connection to the city's water main pipe. Within a gated or private community all water infrastructure, with the exception of the city's water meter, located within the private property or gated community including all water piping, valves, and hydrants, beginning at the point of connection to the city's water distribution main shall be the sole responsibility of the customer(s).
5. Private Fire Service: The customer assumes full responsibility for the operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of any private fire system from the connection point to the city's water main pipe.
B. Policy:
1. No water service connection to any premises shall be installed or maintained by the city water department unless the water supply is protected as required by state laws and this chapter. Service of water to any premises shall be discontinued by the director if a backflow prevention device required by state law or this chapter is not installed, tested or maintained, or if it is found that a backflow prevention device has been removed, bypassed, or if an unprotected cross connection exists on the premises. Service will not be restored until such conditions or defects are corrected.
2. The customer's system shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times to authorized representatives of the director, city building inspector and city fire marshal to determine whether cross connections or other structural or sanitary hazards, including violations of this chapter, exist. When such a condition becomes known, the director shall deny or immediately discontinue service to their premises by providing for a physical break in the service line until the customer has corrected the condition(s) in conformance with state and city regulations relating to this chapter, plumbing and water supplies and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
3. An approved backflow prevention device shall also be installed on each service line to a customer's water system at or near the property line or immediately outside the building being served; but in all cases before the first branch line leading off the service line.
(Ord. 2009-02, 7-28-2009; amd. Ord. 2019-009, 12-10-2019)