(a) The water system shall be considered as made up of two parts: the public water system and the customer's system.
(b) The public water system shall consist of the source facilities and the distribution system, and shall include all those facilities of the water system under the complete control of the Water Services Superintendent, up to the point where the customer's system begins, which is the outlet side of the meter. The water supplier does, however, have the responsibility to protect the public potable water system and therefore has the authority to require a containment assembly(s) to be installed inside the building on the consumer's side of the meter. This device shall not, however, extend the responsibility of the water supplier to the outlet side of the backflow prevention device. The consumer will be solely responsible for the line past the outlet side of the meter and for the installation and maintenance of the backflow prevention assembly(s) as required by the Water Services Superintendent.
(c) The source shall include all components of the facilities utilized in the production, treatment, storage, and delivery of water to the public distribution system.
(d) The public distribution system shall include the network of conduits used for the delivery of water from the source to the customer's system.
(e) The customer's system shall include those parts of the facilities beyond the service connection which are used in conveying water from the public distribution system to points of use.
(f) The use of any approved backflow prevention device at the water service connection does not in any way affect or eliminate the need for individual fixture devices, or air gaps as required by the Ohio Plumbing Code (isolation backflow prevention devices), nor shall the presence of an isolation device necessarily negate the need for a containment device.
(Ord. 17-169. Passed 9-11-17.)