(A) No entity shall establish or maintain, or permit to be established or maintained, any cross-connection. A CROSS-CONNECTION is defined as any physical connection or arrangement between two otherwise separate systems, one of which contains potable water from the town’s water system, and the other, water from a private source, water of unknown or questionable safety, or steam, gases or chemicals, whereby there may be a flow from one system to the other, the direction of flow depending on the pressure differential between the two systems.
(B) No interconnection shall be established whereby potable water from a water supply other than the regular public water supply of the town may enter the supply or distribution system unless other supply and the method of connection and use of other supply is approved by the Council and by the Environmental Management Board in accordance with all applicable authority including 327 I.A.C. 8, as those provisions now exists or are hereafter amended.
(C) It shall be the duty of the town to cause inspections to be made from time to time of all property served by the public water system where cross-connections and/or interconnections of any type with the public water system is deemed possible.
(D) (1) Upon presentation of credentials, the representative of the town shall have the right to request entry at any reasonable time to examine any property served by a connection to the public water system of the town for cross-connections and/or interconnections. On request, the owner, lessee or occupant of any property so served shall furnish to the inspection agency any pertinent information in detail regarding the piping system or systems on the property.
(2) The refusal of access or refusal of requested pertinent information shall be deemed evidence of the presence of cross- connections and/or interconnections in violation of this section.
(E) The town’s water utility shall discontinue water service to any property wherein any connection in violation of this section exists, and shall take other precautionary measures deemed necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination of the public water system. Water service shall be discontinued only after reasonable notice is served on the owner, lessee or occupants of the property or premises where a violation is found or suspected to exist. Water service to the property shall not be restored until the connection in violation of this section has been eliminated.
(F) If it is deemed by the town that a connection in violation of this section or an emergency endangers public health, safety or welfare and requires immediate action, and a written finding to that effect is filed with the Clerk-Treasurer and delivered to the consumer’s premises, service may be immediately discontinued. The consumer shall have an opportunity to a hearing within ten days of the emergency discontinuance.
(G) All consumers using toxic or hazardous liquids, all hospitals, mortuaries, wastewater treatment plants, laboratories and all other hazardous users interconnected in any way at any point directly, indirectly and/or remotely with the town’s municipal water system shall install and maintain a reduced-pressure-principle back flow preventer in the main water line serving each building on the premises. The back flow preventer must be installed in an easily accessible and inspectable location not subject to flooding or freezing.
(H) This section does not supersede the state’s Uniform Plumbing Code or any other provision of the town code, but is supplementary to them.
(Prior Code, § 52.01) (Ord. 1986-1, passed 4-21-1986; Ord. 2017-1, passed 1-17-2017) Penalty, see § 10.99