(a) An approved backflow prevention assembly shall be installed on each service line to a customer's water system where, in the judgement of the Water Services Superintendent or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, actual or potential hazards to the public potable water system exist.
(b) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving premises where the following conditions exist:
(1) Premises having an auxiliary water system, unless such auxiliary system has been accepted as an additional source by both the Water Services Superintendent and the Director of the Ohio EPA.
(2) Premises on which any substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the public potable water system. This shall include premises having sources or systems containing process fluids or waters originating from the potable water system which are no longer under the sanitary control of the Water Services Superintendent.
(3) Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of the Water Services Superintendent, are not correctable, or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impractical to determine whether or not cross-connections exist.
(4) Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete cross-connection survey.
(5) Premises having a repeated history of cross-connections being established or re-established.
(6) Others specified by the Water Services Superintendent.
(c) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer's water system serving, but not necessarily limited to, the following types of facilities unless the Water Services Superintendent or the Director of the Ohio EPA determines that no actual or potential hazard to the public potable water system exists:
(1) Hospitals, mortuaries, clinics, nursing homes, funeral homes;
(2) Laboratories;
(3) Piers, docks, waterfront facilities;
(4) Sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping stations or storm water pumping stations;
(5) Food or beverage processing plants;
(6) Chemical plants;
(7) Metal plating industries;
(8) Petroleum processing or storage plants;
(9) Radioactive material processing plants or nuclear reactors;
(10) Car washes;
(11) Other as specified by the Water Services Superintendent or Director of the Ohio EPA.
(d) An approved backflow prevention assembly shall be installed at any point of connection between the public potable or consumer's water system and an auxiliary water system, unless such auxiliary system is accepted as an additional source by the Water Services Superintendent and the source is approved by the Director of the Ohio EPA.
(Ord. 17-169. Passed 9-11-17.)