8-3-5: SCHEDULE OF PREMISES REQUIRING BACKFLOW PREVENTIVE DEVICES:

An approved backflow prevention assembly of the type specified in this section shall be the minimum installation of each service connection (whether from a fire hydrant, temporary, regular or other water service connection), to the following type of premises or systems. Premises or systems not listed herein shall be subject to review by the department so as to determine the necessity for the installation of an appropriate backflow prevention device.

Premises Requiring Approved Backflow Prevention Assemblies	Type Of Assembly Required (And/Or)
	Double Check	Reduced Pressure	Air Gap	Pressure Vacuum Breaker
Animal clinics, animal grooming shops		X
Automotive repair with steam and/or acid cleaning equipment or solvent facilities		X
Auxiliary water systems (interconnected)		X
Auxiliary water systems (noninterconnected)	X
Beverage bottling plants		X
Breweries	X
Buildings greater than 3 stories or 34 feet in height	X
Buildings with house pumps or potable water storage	X
Buildings with sewer ejectors		X
Canneries, packinghouses, and reduction plants		X
Car wash facilities		X
Centralized heating and air conditioning plants		X
Chemical plants		X
Chemically treated potable or nonpotable water systems		X
Civil works (government owned or operated facilities not open for inspection by the department)		X
Commercial laundries		X
Dairies and cold storage	X
Dye works		X
Film processing labs		X
Food processing		X
Grade school, high school and colleges		X
Holding tank disposal stations		X
Hospitals and mortuaries		X
Medical and dental buildings		X
Sanatoriums, rest and convalescent homes	X
Irrigation systems (premises having nonpotable piping 1 inch and larger)		X		X
Irrigation systems (premises having separate systems)		X
Labs using contaminating materials		X
Manufacturing, processing and fabricating plants using contaminating materials		X
Mobile home parks		X
Motion picture studios		X
Oil and gas production facilities		X
Plating plants		X
Radioactive materials processing		X
Restricted, classified or other closed facilities		X
Sand and gravel plants		X
Sewage and storm drainage facilities		X
Shopping centers		X
Any premises where a cross connection is maintained		X
Water trucks, hydraulic sewer cleaning equipment		X	X
Any premises where water supplied by the town is subject to deterioration in sanitary quality and its entry into the public water system		X
Direct connection from public water system (noncontaminating)	X
Direct connection from public water system (contaminating)		X
With pump and/or storage tank		X
With auxiliary supply		X

 

(Ord. O 12-01, 2-7-2012)