(a) Protection of Water Utility System. The City's water utility and public water system shall be protected against backflow and siphonage, both natural and induced. All equipment connected to the City's water utility system that is capable of polluting or contaminating the system or any part thereof by means of flow, pressure drop, pressure loss or induced vacuum, or by injection because of any primary or auxiliary pumping system connected thereto, must be isolated and contained by means of approved backflow devices or accepted engineering practices. Water consumers may be required to utilize backflow devices, as set forth in Section 1010.10
of this Chapter.
(b) Limitation on Connections. No person shall establish or permit to be established, or maintain or permit to be maintained, any connection whereby a private, auxiliary or emergency water supply, other than the regular public water supply of the City's water utility system, may enter the supply or distribution system of the City, unless such private, auxiliary or emergency water supply and the method of connection and use of such supply shall have been approved by the Public Service Director and by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) Duty of Public Service Director. It shall be the duty of the Public Service Director to cause surveys and investigations to be made of industrial and other properties serviced by the City's water utility system where actual or potential hazards to the system may exist. Such surveys and investigations shall be made a matter of public record and shall be repeated as often as the Public Service Director deems necessary.
(d) Right of Entry. The Public Service Director or his or her duly authorized representative shall have the right to enter, at any reasonable time, upon any property or premises served by a connection to the City's water utility system for the purpose of inspecting the piping system or systems thereof. On demand, the owner, lessee or occupant of any property so served shall furnish to the Public Service Director any information which he or she may request regarding the piping system or systems, or the water use on such property. The refusal to provide such information, when demanded, shall, within the discretion of the Public Service Director, be deemed evidence of the presence of improper connections as provided in this section.
(e) Disconnection for Violations. The Public Service Director is hereby authorized and directed to discontinue, after reasonable notice to the occupant thereof, the water service to any property wherein any connection exists in violation of the provisions of this Chapter and/or the Water Utility Rules and Regulations is known to exist, and to take such other precautionary measures as he or she may deem necessary to eliminate any danger of contamination of the City's water utility system. Water service to such property shall not be restored until such violations have been eliminated or corrected in compliance with the provisions of this Chapter and/or the Water Utility Rules and Regulations.
(Ord. 91-17. Adopted 04/25/91; Ord. 11-05. Adopted 01/27/11; Ord. 13-05. Adopted 02/14/13; Ord. 2023-38. Adopted 12/28/23; Em. Ord. 2024-01. Adopted 02/08/24; Ord. 2024-02. Adopted 02/22/24)