(a) No water service connection to any premises shall be installed or maintained where actual or potential cross-connections to the public potable or consumer's water system may exist unless these cross-connections are controlled to the satisfaction of the Water Services Superintendent. Service of water to any premises shall be discontinued by the water supplier if a backflow prevention assembly required by this Backflow Prevention Ordinance is not installed, tested, and maintained, or if it is found that a backflow prevention assembly has been removed or bypassed, or if an unprotected cross-connection exists on the premises, or if the minimum pressure sustaining method required pursuant to 943.06 of this Ordinance is not installed and maintained in working order. Service will not be restored until such conditions or defects are corrected. Water turn on fee shall be charged pursuant to section 939.10.
(b) No person shall install or maintain a connection between a public water system or consumer’s water system and an auxiliary water system unless the auxiliary water system, the method connection and the use of such system have been approved by the Water Services Superintendent and by the Director of the EPA as required by section 6109.13 of the Revised Code.
(c) It shall be the duty of the Water Services Superintendent, or his/her designee, and Plumbing Inspector to cause surveys and investigations to be made of industrial and other properties served by the public water supply where 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 as often as the Water Services Superintendent or Plumbing Inspector shall deem necessary.
(d) The consumer’s system should be open for inspection at all reasonable times to authorized representatives of the Water Department and Plumbing Inspector to determine whether actual or potential cross-connections exist. When such a condition becomes known, the Water Services Superintendent shall deny or discontinue service, after reasonable notice to the occupants, to the premises by providing for a physical break in the service line until the customer has corrected the condition(s) in conformance with state/provincial and city statutes relating to plumbing and water supplies and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
(e) A fee shall be charged for surveys made by the Water Purveyor or Plumbing Inspector in accordance with subsection 943.05(b) hereof; said fee to be charged for all non-residential surveys shall be a rate of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per hour with a minimum of one hour charge per visit. If additional work is required of City staff going above & beyond, including work performed after hours those charges shall be billed to the consumer.
(f) It shall be the responsibility of the Water Services Superintendent or his/her designee to conduct periodic surveys of water use practices on the consumer's premises to determine whether there are actual or potential cross-connections through which contaminants could backflow into either his or the public water system. The consumer shall be responsible for immediately notifying the Water Purveyor or Plumbing Inspector when actual or potential cross-connections are discovered. The consumer of the premises is solely responsible for ensuring that the plumbing inside the buildings is in compliance with the Ohio Plumbing Code.
(Ord. 17-169. Passed 9-11-17.)