A. Water Supply Required: Every park shall have a water supply system capable of providing a sufficient supply of potable water under adequate pressure to facilities for mobile homes, service buildings, fire hydrants, drinking fountains, and other accessory facilities as required by this chapter for the well being of park residents and for park maintenance. Such system shall be designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with the state standards of the Illinois department of public health and/or standards currently enforced by local agencies.
B. Source:
1. Where a public water supply system is available, the park water supply system shall be connected thereto. A public water supply system shall be deemed available when such system is within five hundred feet (500') of the park, measured along a street or other public easement, and a connection may be made lawfully thereto. No private water supply system shall be cross connected with any public water supply system.
2. Where a public water supply source is available, the park's source of water supply, including the construction, equipment and distribution system for withdrawing and/or processing and distribution of water, shall be approved by the board of health and other authorities having jurisdiction. The chemical and bacteriological quality of the potable water distributed in any park, including water treatment processes employed, shall conform to the standards established by the health authority having jurisdiction.
3. The water sources shall be capable of producing an adequate volume of water to supply all mobile home spaces in any park, but in no case shall such capacity be less than one hundred fifty (150) gallons per space per day in any mobile home park.
4. Where an independent or nonpublic water system is used to serve the mobile home park with water obtained from wells, the well shall be located and constructed in such a manner that neither underground nor surface contamination will reach the water supply from any source. A minimum distance of one hundred feet (100') shall be maintained between the water supply and any other possible source of contamination; except, that sewers or pipes through which sewage may back up shall be located at least fifty feet (50') from any well or water suction pipeline.
5. No well casings, pumps, pumping machinery or suction pipes shall be located in any pit, room or space extending below ground level, nor in any room or space aboveground which is walled in or otherwise enclosed, unless such rooms, whether aboveground or belowground, have free drainage by gravity to the surface of the ground. The floor or rooms aboveground shall be at least six inches (6") above the ground's surface. All floors shall be watertight and sloped from the well casing to the drain. Said well casing shall be not less than twelve inches (12') from the floor.
C. Storage Facilities: All water storage reservoirs shall be watertight and constructed of impervious material; all overflows and vents of such reservoirs shall be effectively screened. Open reservoirs are prohibited. Manholes shall be constructed with overlapping covers so as to prevent the entrance of contaminated material, and so designed that they may be locked. All of the overflow pipes from a reservoir shall be connected with back siphonage protection to any pipe in which polluted water may back up.
D. Distribution System:
1. The water distribution system shall be constructed of piping, fixtures and other equipment of approved materials and shall be so designed and maintained to provide a pressure of not less than twenty (20) pounds per square inch, under normal operating conditions at each mobile home, service building, and other locations requiring potable water supply. Such piping shall not be interconnected or cross connected with any drainage, venting or other system conveying nonpotable water. Nor shall such piping be subject to hazards of backflow or any back siphonage.
2. The public water supply shall extend only to the mobile home park. Single mobile home lots will not be metered. (Ord., 4-1-1973)
E. Individual Water Connections:
1. Individual water service connections shall be provided at each mobile home lot in the mobile home park. All water service connections shall be watertight and located at a minimum distance of ten feet (10') from sanitary sewer connections belowground. The minimum pipe size of connections shall be three-fourths inch (3/4") or one inch (1"). Outlets shall be so constructed as to be free of possible contamination from surface drainage and possible damage during installation of a mobile home, and shall be four inches (4") above grade. (Ord., 4-1-1973; amd. 2009 Code)
2. Adequate provisions shall be made to prevent freezing of service lines, valves and riser pipe and to protect risers from the heaving and thawing actions of the ground during freezing weather.
3. Underground stop and waste cocks shall not be installed on any connection.
F. Fire Protection: Where a public water supply system with a water main of four inches (4") or larger is available, all parks accommodating or designed to accommodate ten (10) or more mobile homes shall provide the following water supply facilities:
1. The system shall permit the operation of a minimum of two (2) 11/2-inch hose streams on a fire in any mobile home, service building or other accessory structure in the park.
2. Hydrants shall be located within six hundred feet (600') of such structures and shall be of a type prescribed by the city.
3. Water supply and associated facilities shall be sufficient to provide a delivery of at least seventy five (75) gallons per minute at each of the two (2) nozzles held four feet (4') above the ground and at a flowing pressure of at least thirty (30) pounds per square inch when measured at the highest elevation in the park. (Ord., 4-1-1973)