§ 40-456. Cross-connection control—General policy.

(a)

Purpose. The purpose of this section is:

(1)

To protect the public water supply of the city from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within the customer's internal distribution system(s) or the customer's private water system(s) such contaminants or pollutants that could backflow into the public water system;

(2)

To promote the elimination or control of existing cross-connections, actual or potential, between the customer's in-plant potable water system(s) and nonpotable water system(s), plumbing fixtures, and industrial piping systems; and,

a.

To provide for the maintenance of a continuing program of cross-connection control that will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of all potable water systems.

(b)

Responsibility. The city shall be responsible for the protection of the public potable water distribution system from contamination or pollution due to the backflow of contaminations or pollutants through the water service connection. If, in the judgement of said city, an approved backflow-prevention assembly is required (at the customer's water service connection; or, within the customer's private water system) for the safety of the water system, the city or his/her designated agent shall give notice in writing to said customer to install such an approved backflow-prevention assembly(s) at specific location(s) on his/her premises. The customer shall immediately install such approved assembly(s) at his/her own expense; and, failure, refusal, or inability on the part of the customer to install, have tested, and maintain said assembly(s) shall constitute grounds for disconnecting water service to the premises until such requirements have been satisfactorily met.

(Ord. No. 06-17-01, 7-11-2017)