(A) The following facilities and uses shall be required to install and maintain the minimum approved backflow prevention assembly type indicated below in parentheses:
(1) Aircraft, automotive, rail transit or missile plant (RPP);
(2) Animal clinic, animal grooming shop and animal boarding facility (RPP);
(3) Apartment or office complex with a pond, lake or fountain (RPP);
(4) Automobile repair shop with steam cleaner, acid cleaning or solvent equipment (RPP);
(5) Auxiliary water system with no known cross-connection (RPP);
(6) Auxiliary water system or a source with a known cross-connection (e.g., a well, river, harbor, irrigation canal) (RPP);
(7) Autopsy facility (RPP);
(8) Bottling plant (beverage or chemical) (RPP);
(9) Brewery (RPP);
(10) Buildings:
(a) Hotel, apartment house, public and private building or other structure, where a sewage pump has been installed (RPP);
(b) Any nonresidential structure in which the specific business activity cannot be ascertained by the Director or his or her designee (RPP);
(c) A multistoried (three stories and higher) building that uses booster pumps or elevated storage tanks to distribute potable water within the premises (RPP);
(d) Any building that exceeds 40 feet in height as measured from the service connection to the highest water outlet (RPP);
(11) Cannery, packing house or reduction plant (RPP);
(12) Chemical facility - any premises served from the city's water system where there is a facility requiring the use of water in the industrial process of manufacturing, sorting, compounding or processing chemicals. This use includes facilities where chemicals are used as additives to the water supply or in the processing of products (RPP);
(13) Chemically contaminated water systems - any premises served from the city's water system, where chemicals are used as additives to the water supply, where the water supply is used for the transmission or distribution of chemicals, or where chemicals are used with water in the compounding or processing of products (RPP);
(14) Church, with or without baptismal font (RPP);
(15) Clinic - dialysis or medical (RPP);
(16) Cold storage plant (RPP);
(17) Commercial meat cutting, packaging or rendering plant (RPP);
(18) Concrete plant (RPP);
(19) Convalescent home, nursing home, residential care, hospice and sanitarium (RPP);
(20) Dairy and dairy processing facility (RPP);
(21) Dental office (RPP);
(22) Dock and portside facility, including pier hydrants, fisheries, fish hatcheries, and fish/shellfish processing facilities (RPP);
(23) Dry cleaner and dye works (RPP);
(24) Film processing or manufacturing facility (RPP);
(25) Food processing facility using nontoxic materials (RPP);
(26) Food processing facility using toxic materials (RPP);
(27) Hospital (RPP);
(28) Ice manufacturing plant (RPP);
(29) Irrigation system:
(a) Premises where facilities have been installed for pumping, injecting, or spreading fertilizers, pesticides or other hazardous substances (RPP);
(b) Premises having a separate service connection for irrigation purposes (RPP);
(30) Laboratory - including but not limited to teaching institution, experimental, diagnostic, biological or analytical (RPP);
(31) Landscaping with elevated areas or drip irrigation except for landscaping of a single-family dwelling (RPP);
(32) Laundry - commercial (Standard Industrial Code Classification 7218) (RPP);
(33) Machine shop (RPP);
(34) Marina and boat repair (RPP);
(35) Medical office (RPP);
(36) Metal manufacturing, processing, stripping and fabrication facility (RPP);
(37) Mobile home park or recreational vehicle camp (RPP);
(38) Mortuary and morgue (RPP);
(39) Multiple services, including two or more interconnected services provided by one or more water purveyors to a single consumer complex. Minimum backflow protection required at each service connection (RPP);
(40) Office or shopping center with lease space (RPP);
(41) Painting shop using water in any process (RPP);
(42) Paper processing and production facility (RPP);
(43) Pest control business (AG, RPP);
(44) Petroleum and gas bulk production, transmission, and storage facility (RPP);
(45) Plastic and fiberglass manufacturing, extruding and injection molding facility (RPP);
(46) Plating works (RPP);
(47) Portable spray or cleaning tank that may be connected to the city's water system (AG, RPP);
(48) Radioactive materials or substances - plant or facility that processes, handles or stores radioactive material or substance (RPP);
(49) Radiator shop - repair or back flushing (RPP);
(50) Reclaimed water distribution systems:
(a) Any premises where the city's water system is used to supplement the reclaimed water system (AG);
(b) Any premises where reclaimed water is used and there is no interconnection with the potable water system (RPP);
(51) Restaurant or building with commercial kitchen (RPP);
(52) Restricted, classified or other closed facility (RPP);
(53) Rubber manufacturing plant - natural or synthetic (RPP);
(54) Sand or gravel plant (RPP);
(55) School, college, and university with kitchen, chemistry lab, boiler, and/or irrigation system (RPP);
(56) Sewage and stormwater pumping facility (AG);
(57) Solar heating systems:
(a) Solar collector system which contains any hazardous substance and where there is a direct makeup connection to the city's water system (RPP);
(b) Protection of the city's water system is not required for "once through" solar heating systems including but not limited to domestic hot water systems;
(58) Tank truck filling from fire hydrant (AG, RPP);
(59) Vehicle washing facility (RPP);
(60) Veterinary clinic and animal shelter (RPP).
(B) The category of uses and facilities designated above are for reference only. Nothing in this section authorizes a use or facility in the city which is otherwise prohibited under the Santa Fe Springs Municipal Code.
(Ord. 1129, passed 6-20-23)