(a) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer’s water system serving the consumer’s premises, where in the judgment of the Service Director or the Ohio E.P.A., a real or potential health, pollutional, or system hazard to the public water system exists.
(b) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each service line to a consumer’s water system serving the consumer’s premises where the following conditions exist:
(1) The premises has an auxiliary water system, unless such auxiliary system is accepted as an additional source by the Service Director and the additional source is approved by the Ohio E.P.A.
(2) Any substance is handled on the premises in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to a public water system.
(3) The premises has internal cross connections that, in the judgment of the Service Director, are not correctable or intricate plumbing arrangements which make it impracticable 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) The premises has a repeated history of cross connections being established or re-established.
(6) Other conditions in which an approved backflow prevention device is required by Federal or Ohio law.
(c) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed at each point of connection between a public water system and an auxiliary water system and at each point of connection between a potable consumer’s water system and an auxiliary water system, unless such auxiliary system is accepted as an additional source by the Service Director and the additional source is approved by the Ohio E.P.A.
(Ord. 89-21. Passed 1-10-89.)