(A) 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;
(2) Premises on which any substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to a public water system, including premises having sources or systems containing process waters or fluids or waters originating from a public water system which are no longer under the control of the supplier of water;
(3) Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgement of the supplier of water, 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) Premises having a repeated history of cross-connections being established or re-established; or
(6) Others specified by the supplier of water or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(B) 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:
(1) Hospitals, mortuaries, clinics, nursing 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 plant or nuclear reactors;
(10) Car washes; and
(11) Others specified by the supplier of water or the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(C) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed at any point of connection between a public water supply system or a potable consumer’s water system and an auxiliary water system.
(Ord. 94-150, passed 11-7-1994; Ord. 96-136, passed 8-5-1996) Penalty, see § 50.999