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(A) Any person, firm or corporation desiring to or required to make any connection with the waterworks system shall first make application to the Waterworks and Sewerage Department for the purpose upon a form or forms to be furnished by the village. Every such applicant shall state specifically and in detail the place, location and kind of connection sought or required, and all the plumbing or plumbing work in any manner or way connected therewith.
(B) No connection to the waterworks system shall be installed, altered or changed in any building or structure within the village, or within one and one-half miles within the corporate limits of the village, wherever the building or structure receives its water supply from the public water supply system operated by the village, until the permit for installation, alteration or change shall be obtained from the appropriate village officials.
(C) The village shall be notified by the person, firm or corporation or the person doing the work when any connection to the sanitary sewer system under Ch. 51 of this code of ordinances or the waterworks system has begun and when it is ready for inspection. No connection for which a permit has been issued under this subchapter shall be covered or placed in operation until the system shall be issued by the appropriate village officials.
(D) Every such person, firm or corporation so making a connection with the waterworks system shall make such connection and maintain the same and shall seal all joints, all as provided by the rules and regulations prescribed by the village. Every excavation in any street or alley of the village required or made in order to connect with the waterworks system shall be made subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the village and only after permission therefor has been given by the village.
(Prior Code, § 50B.016) (Ord. 88-005, passed 1-19-1988)
(A) When the village issues a permit based upon an application for a connection with the waterworks system, the village will furnish and install three-quarter inch copper tubing of up to 60 feet; and in addition, will provide and install the corporation stop, meter pit, meter box cover, three-quarter inch meter, meter yoke and three-quarter-inch saddle. All property furnished and materials utilized will remain the property of the village.
(B) If the applicant wishes a larger scale copper tubing, and so states in his or her application, he or she will be required to pay the cost difference between the requested tubing and the three-quarter inch tubing provided normally by the village.
(C) For each installation requiring more than the standard three-quarter-inch service, the village will provide to the applicant a cost estimate sheet which shall be prepared by the Water Superintendent, or his designee, and will include a reasonable estimate of the cost of materials, use of specialized equipment, labor (at its cost to the village), and administrative fee as set by the Water Superintendent or the Water Committee. The applicant shall pay this cost estimate in full prior to the materials for the installation being ordered. Any amounts left over from the estimate shall be refunded to the applicant and any cost overruns which are a result of unforeseen circumstances, shall be paid by the applicant upon completion of the installation.
(Prior Code, § 50B.021) (Ord. 88-005, passed 1-19-1988; Ord. 90-004, passed 9-18-1990; Ord. 90-005, passed 10-16-1990)
CROSS-CONNECTIONS
(A) If, in accordance with the Illinois Plumbing Code or, in the judgement of the Superintendent of Water, an approved backflow prevention device is necessary for the safety of the public water supply system, the person appointed by the President and Board of Trustees of the village will give notice to the water customer to install such an approved device immediately. The water customer shall, at his or her own expense, install such an approved device at a location and in a manner in accordance with the Illinois Plumbing Code and all applicable local regulations, and shall have inspections and tests made of such approved devices as required by the Illinois Plumbing Code and local regulations.
(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 village enter the supply or distribution system of said 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 Village Superintendent of Water and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
(C) It shall be the duty of the person appointed by the Village President and Board of Trustees to cause surveys and investigations to be made of industrial and other properties served by the public water supply to determine whether 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 at least every two years, or as often as the appointee of the Village President and Board of Trustees shall deem necessary. Records of such surveys shall be maintained and available for review for a period of at least five years.
(D) The approved cross-connection village appointee shall have the right to enter at any reasonable time, any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distribution system of the village water supply for the purpose of verifying the presence or absence of cross-connections, and that the village appointee or his or her authorized agent shall have the right to enter at any reasonable time any property served by a connection to the public water supply or distribution system of the village water supply for the purpose of verifying information submitted by the customer regarding the required cross-connection control inspection. On demand, the owner, lessees or occupants of any property so served shall furnish to the Superintendent of Water any information which he or 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 village appointee, be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connection as provided in this subchapter.
(E) The village appointee 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 subchapter is known to exist, and to take such other precautionary measures as he or she may deem necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination of the public water supply distribution mains. Water eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this subchapter, and until the usual reconnection fee is paid to the Village Water Department. Immediate disconnection with verbal notice can be effected when the village appointee is assured that imminent danger of harmful contamination of the public water supply system exists. Such action shall be followed by written notification of the cause of disconnection.
(F) The consumer responsible for backsiphoned material or contamination through backflow, if contamination of the potable water supply system occurs through an illegal cross-connection or an improperly installed, maintained or repaired device, or a device which has been bypassed, must bear the cost of clean-up of the potable water supply system.
(Prior Code, § 50B.030) (Ord. 89-009, passed 4-5-1989)
The Water Committee of the village is empowered to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of § 52.30 of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 50B.031) (Ord. 89-009, passed 4-5-1989)