HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 98-37 - Drinking WaterPART 1. That a new Chapter 18-5 (Cross Connection Control) be hereby added to the
Georgetown City Code of 1997, as follows:
§ 1$-5 Declaration of Policy.
It is hereby declared the policy of the City of Georgetown to promote the public health,
safety, and welfare by:
(A) implementing the rules for Drinking Water Standards Governing Drinking Water
Quality and Reporting Requirements for Public Water Supply Systems promulgated by
the Texas Water Commission, 31 Texas Administrative Code §290.44, Texas Health
and Safety Code, Chapter 341, Subchapter C, and the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act,
42 U.S.C.A. §§ 300f et. Seq.
(B) establishing a cross connection control program of uniform regulations governing the
installation, testing and certification of backflow prevention assemblies and
technicians,
(C) establishing requirements to permit and control the installation, routine maintenance
and inspection of backflow prevention assemblies.
§ l&5-002 Purposes.
This chapter shall be construed so as to achieve the following objectives:
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(A) to protect the public potable water supply of the City of Georgetown 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;
(B) 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 systems,
plumbing fixtures, and industrial piping systems in conjunction with the current
adopted Plumbing Code;
(C) to provide for the maintenance of a continuing program of cross connection control that
will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of any City
potable water by requiring the certification and operational testing of all testable
backflow prevention assemblies located on a premises, and requiring the installation of
approved backflow prevention assemblies as required by Georgetown Building
Inspections and Plumbing Code; and,
(D) to comply with the Commission Rules and Regulations for Public Water Systems (31
TAC §§290.38 through 290.47 10/20/95).
§ 18-5-003 Interpretation.
This chapter shall be liberally interpreted to achieve the policy and purposes stated above.
§ 18-5-004 Applicability.
This chapter shall apply to the Utility water service area and all cross connections and
installations of backflow prevention assemblies within:
(A) the corporate city limits of Georgetown, the extraterritorial jurisdiction, or limited
purpose annexed areas where potable water is provided by the Utility;
(B) areas where water is purchased from the Utility for the purpose of resale, and
(C) any plumbing outside the City requiring plumbing inspection pursuant to an interlocal
agreement between the City and a political subdivision.
§ 18-5-005 Rulemaking.
The Director is hereby authorized to promulgate regulations not in conflict with this chapter,
the Plumbing Code, the City Charter, the laws of the State of Texas. Texas Health and Safety
Code,
§§341.031 et. seq., as amended, and. the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 300f
et. seq., as amended.
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Definitions.
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For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly
indicates or requires a different meaning. If a word or term used in this chapter is not
contained in the following list, its definition shall be as shown in the Plumbing Code. Other
technical terms used shall have the meanings or definitions listed in the latest edition of the
Manual of Cross Connection Control published by the Foundation for Cross Connection
Control and Hydraulic research, University of Southern California.
Air Gap Separation means a physical separation between the free flowing discharge end of a
potable water supply pipeline and an open or non -pressure receiving vessel. An approved air -
gap separation shall be at least double the diameter of the supply pipe measured vertically
above the overflow rim of the vessel - in no case less than one (1) inch (2.54 cm).
Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker (AVB) means a device consisting of a float check, a check
seat, and an air inlet port. A shutoff valve immediately upstream may be an integral part of the
assembly. The AVB is designed to allow air to enter the downstream water line to prevent
back siphonage. This unit may never be subjected to a back pressure condition, or have a
downstream shutoff valve, or be installed where it will be continuous operation for more than
12 hours.
Auxiliary Fater Supply means any water supply on or available to the premises other than
the purveyor's approved public water supply. These auxiliary waters may include water from
another purveyor's public potable water supply or any natural sources, such as, but not limited
to a well, spring, river, stream, used waters, or industrial fluids. These waters may be
contaminated or polluted, or they may be objectionable and constitute an unacceptable water
source over which the water purveyor does not have sanitary control.
Backflow means the undesirable reversal of flow of water or mixtures of water and other
liquids, gases or other substances into the distribution pipes of a potable water supply from any
source(s).
Bacliflow Prevention Assembly means a device or means to prevent backflow into the potable
water system, including reduced pressure backflow assemblies, double-check valve assemblies,
atmospheric vacuum breakers, pressure vacuum breaker assemblies or air gap.
Back pressure means a pressure higher than the supply pressure caused by a pump, elevated
tank, boiler, air/stream pressure, or any other means which may cause backflow.
Back siphonage means a form of backflow due to a reduction in system pressure which causes
a negative or subatmospheric pressure to exist at a site in the water system.
Commission means the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission ( CC).
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Contamination means an impairment of the quality of the public potable water supply or a
private potable water supply by the introduction or admission of any foreign substance that
degrades the quality and which creates an actual hazard to the public health through poisoning
or through the spread of disease by sewage, industrial fluids, or waste.
Cross connection mans any actual or potential connection or structural arrangement between
a public or private water system through which it is possible to introduce any used water,
industrial fluids, gas, or substance other than the intended potable water with which the system
is supplied. By-pass arrangements, jumper connections, removal sections, swivel or
changeover devices and other temporary or permanent devices through which, or because of
which, backflow can or may occur.
Cross Connection Survey means a detailed inspection of a location and disposition of the
water lines, including without limitation, establishing water lines on the premises, the existence
of cross connections, the availability of auxiliary or used water supplies, the use of or
availability of pollutants, contaminants and other liquid, solid or gaseous substances which may
be used industrially for stabilization of water supplies and such other processes necessary to
determine degree of hazard.
Customer means the person, company, or entity contracting with the City of Georgetown
Community owned Utility to receive potable water service.
Customer's Potable Fater System means that portion of the privately owned potable water
system lying between the point of delivery and the point of use. This system will include all
pipes, conduits, tanks, receptacles, fixtures, equipment and appurtenances used to produce,
convey, store or utilize the potable water.
Director means the Director of the City of Georgetown's Community Owned Utilities Water
and Wastewater Department or his authorized representative or designee.
Double Check Valve means an assembly composed of two independently acting, approved
check valves, including tightly closing resilient -seated shutoff valves located at each end of the
assembly and fitted with properly located resilient -seated test cocks. This assembly shall only
be used to protect against a non -health hazard (i.e. pollutant).
onpotable Water means water that does not comply with the Commission's rules and
regulations governing drinking water.
Pollution means an impairment of the quality of the public potable water supply to a degree
which does not create a hazard to the public health but does adversely and unreasonably affect
the aesthetic qualities of such potable waters for domestic use.
Potable water means water which is satisfactory for drinking, culinary and domestic purposes
and meets the requirements of the Commission.
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Public Potable Water System means any publicly or privately owned water system operated
as a public utility under a health permit to supply water for domestic purposes. This system
will include all sources, facilities and appurtenances between the source and the point of
delivery such as valves, pumps, pipes, conduits, tanks, receptacles, fixtures, equipment and
appurtenances used to produce, convey, treat or store potable water for public consumption or
use.
Reduced Pressure Backflow Prevention Assembly shall consist of two independently acting
approved check valves together with a hydraulically operating, mechanically independent
pressure differential relief valve located between the check valves and below the first check
valve. These units are located between two tightly closing resilient -seated shutoff valves and
are fitted with properly located resilient -seated test cocks.
Service Connection means the terminal end of a service connection from the public potable
water system, i.e., where the water purveyor loses jurisdiction and sanitary control over the
water at its point of delivery to the consumer's water system. If a meter is installed at the end
of the service connection, then the service connection shall mean the downstream end of the
meter.
Used Fater means any water supplied by a water purveyor from a public water system to a
consumer's water system after passing through the point of delivery, service connection, and is
no longer controlled by the water purveyor. Used water shall not be returned to the public
potable water system.
Utility means the City of Georgetown Community Owned Utilities.
Water Purveyor means the Utility, private owner, political subdivision or operator of a
potable water system supplying at least fifteen (15) service connections or servicing at least
twenty-five (25) individuals at least sixty (60) days out of the year.
§ 111-5-007 Cross Connections Prohibited.
(A) No installation of potable water supply, piping, or part thereof shall be made in such a
manner that allows used, unclean, polluted or contaminated water, mixtures, gasses, or
other substances to enter any portion of such piping by reason of back siphonage, back
pressure or any other cause.
(B) No person shall install any water operated equipment or mechanism, or use any water
treating chemical or substance, if it is found that such equipment, mechanism, chemical
or substance may cause pollution or contamination of the public potable water supply.
Such equipment or mechanism may be permitted only when equipped with an approved
backflow prevention assembly.
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(C) No person shall connect to the public potable water system any mechanism(s) or
system(s) designed to return used water to the public potable water system through any
measures. An exception to this prohibition is that the Director may approve installation
of mechanism(s) or system(s) designed to return used water to the public potable water
system provided such systems have received the approval of the Commission or the
United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(D) No person shall connect to the public potable water system an auxiliary water system
without the approval of the Commission and the Director.
§ 18-5-008 Backflow Prevention Assemblies.
(A) {1) General Requirements. New, replacement or reconditioned backflow prevention
assemblies shall be installed in accordance with the currently adopted Plumbing
Code, as amended. The control of backflow, whether caused by back pressure or
back -siphonage, requires the elimination of cross connections and the
installation of an air gap or a backflow prevention assembly. General methods
or types of assemblies used for the prevention of backflow shall be approved by
the Director and in conformance with the currently adopted Plumbing Code, as
amended. Prior to the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, a complete test
and maintenance report of a testable backflow prevention assembly shall be
submitted to the Utility.
(2) High Hazard Installations. All high hazard testable backflow prevention
assemblies protecting the potable water system from hazards that are deleterious
or hazardous to the health, safety, or life of humans or animals shall comply
with one of the following:
(a) install an approved high hazard backflow prevention assembly at the
point of connection to the potential hazard. This assembly, if testable, is
required to be certified for operation by a certified backflow prevention.
technician semiannually;
(b) install two (2) approved high hazard backflow prevention assemblies in
series at the point of connection to the potential hazard. The complete
backflow prevention assemblies shall be installed within twenty-four
(24) inches from the shutoff valves located on the assembly and, if
testable, shall be certified for operation by a certified backflow
technician annually; or
(c) install one high hazard backflow prevention assembly at the point of
connection to the potential hazard and an equivalent secondary assembly
at the service connection prior to the first branch line off the customer's
service line. The backflow assemblies, if testable, shall be certified for
operation by a certified backflow prevention technician annually.
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(3) Other Installations. A backflow prevention assembly shall be installed to
protect the potable water system from contamination or pollution when such
system is connected to automatic fire protection systems, standpipe systems, or
privately owned fire hydrants.
A reduced pressure backflow prevention assembly shall be required if chemicals
or additives are combined or added to any fire protection system.
Installation of a reduced pressure backflow prevention assembly shall be
required on temporary water meters and temporary water from fire hydrants
connected to the public potable water system for use at construction sites and
for water appropriation from fire hydrants.
(4) Wholesale Customers. Any customer purchasing water for the purpose of resale
or distribution shall:
(a) install an air gap separation or a reduced pressure backflow assembly at
the service connection, certified for operation upon installation and
annually thereafter by a certified backflow prevention assembly
technician, forwarding the results to the Director within ten (10) days, or
(b) implement a plumbing inspection and cross connection control program
not less restrictive than that of the City of Georgetown and provide
annual program records to the Director for review and audit.
(5) Government Customers. Any premises owned, operated or occupied by a state,
federal or foreign government or agency refusing to comply with the provisions
of this chapter shall install a reduced pressure backflow prevention assembly at
each service connection, being certified and tested for proper operation upon
installation and annually thereafter. In those instances where the Director
deems potential or actual hazard to be deleterious to human health certified
inspections and operational testing shall be required semiannually.
(6) Water Hauling Trucks. Water hauling trucks obtaining water from the Utility's
public potable water system shall have an approved air gap separation or
reduced pressure backflow prevention assembly installed permanently on the
vehicle and said assembly shall be registered with the Utility and certified for
operation annually.
(B) Existing Backflow Prevention Assemblies. The premise owner, customer or the
designated representative shall have all testable backflow prevention assemblies located
on the premises certified for operation by a certified backflow prevention technician on
an annual basis thereafter unless otherwise specified within this chapter.
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(C) Utility Purchase and Installation of Backflow Prevention Assemblies, Any retail
customer unable to purchase and install a backflow prevention assembly due to
financial hardship may request assistance from the Utility in order to comply with the
intent of this chapter. The customer may submit a written request for financial
assistance to the, Director granting permission to purchase and install a backflow
prevention assembly appropriate to the customer's need.
Installation shall be by a private contractor selected by the Utility. The Utility's cost to
purchase and install the assembly shall be recovered through monthly billing on the
customer's utility bill. The Director may establish the payback period, but in no case
shall the payback period exceed sixty (60) months.
(D) Quality Control. The Utility reserves the authority to maintain a program of quality
control by initiating the Following measures:
(1) re -testing of any backflow prevention assembly certified as operational;
(2) notifying the technician certifying the operation of a backflow prevention
assembly of test discrepancies; and
(3) taking legal action against the certified technician for three testing or reporting
discrepancies verified within a two year period, commencing with the first
discrepancy, including without limitation:
(a) false, incomplete or inaccurate reporting of test completion or
certification of a backflow prevention assembly;
(b) use of inaccurate gauges; and
(c) improper operational certification method.
(E) Test and Maintenance Reports. All backflow tests and maintenance reports shall be
completed in their entirety.
§ 1&5-009 Inspection and Testing of Backflow Prevention Assemblies.
(A) It shall be the duty of the customer at any premise where backflow prevention
assemblies are installed to have certified inspections and operational tests conducted
annually. In those instances where the Director deems the hazard to be deleterious to
human health, certified inspections may be required semiannually. Inspections and
tests shall be at the expense of the owner, owner's representative or customer, and shall
be performed by a certified backflow technician.
(B) Assemblies shall be repaired, overhauled or replaced at the expense of the customer
whenever said assemblies are found to be defective. Records of such tests, repairs and
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overhaul shall be kept and made available to the Director within five (5) days of the
tests, repairs or overhaul of each backflow prevention assembly.
(C) No device or assembly shall be removed from use, relocated, or other device or
assembly substituted without the approval of the Director. Whenever the existing
assembly is moved from the present location, requires more than minimum
maintenance or when the Director finds that the maintenance constitutes a hazard to
health, the unit shall be replaced by a backflow prevention assembly complying with
requirements of this chapter and the current Plumbing; Code.
(D) The Director shall conduct a cross connection. survey of the customer's potable water
system before providing service and periodically thereafter to prevent cross connections
between the customer's potable water system and contamination or pollution sources.
Continuous efforts shall be made to locate possible cross connections between the
customer's potable water systems and the public potable water supply.
§ 1&5-010 Maintenance Responsibility
The customer is responsible for general maintenance and upkeep of an approved backflow
prevention assembly. Where an owner of property leases or rents the same to any person as
tenant or lessee, the owner or tenant or both may be held responsible by the Director for
maintenance.
§ 18.5-011 Certified Backflow Prevention Assembly Technician.
(A) A certified backflow assembly technician can make application with the office of the
Director. The Director shall determine whether an applicant is eligible for registration.
Eligibility shall be established upon certification as a backflow prevention assembly
tester or technician from any of the following institutions: American Society of Sanitary
Engineers, University of Southern California Foundation for Cross Connection Control
and Hydraulic Research, University of Florida Training, Research and Learning for
Environmental Occupations, University of A&M Texas Engineering Extension Service,
or the American Backflow Prevention Association or other backflow prevention
certification(s) recognized by the Commission Registration shall remain in force
providing the technician maintains eligibility for registration or registration is not
revoked by the Director for cause pursuant to this chapter. When re -certifying, the
tester must renew the registration with the Director. If the certification remains expired
for a period of one (1) year, the technician must reestablish eligibility.
(B) Each applicant certified as a backflow prevention assembly technician shall furnish
evidence to show that he/she has available the necessary tools and equipment to
properly test and certify such assemblies. The serial number of each test kit shall be on
record with the Utility. Annually, each recorded test kit shall be tested for accuracy and
calibrated to maintain a two -percent (2%) accuracy factor. The technician shall be
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responsible for performing competent and accurate certifications of backflow
prevention assemblies tested and submit complete reports thereof to the Director.
(C) Registration by backflow prevention assembly technicians must include all test gauges
to be used by said technician. Beginning January 1, 1996,.serial numbers of all test
gauges shall be registered, with the Director. Registered serial. numbers of test gauges
shall be listed on tests and maintenance reports prior to being submitted to the Director.
Failure to register the serial number or calibrate gauges annually shall be grounds for
revocation of a technician's registration. Certified technicians shall not change the
design or operational characteristics of an assembly during repair or maintenance
without prior approval of the Director.
§ 18-5-012 Cross Connection Control Specialist
Utility personnel, in order to enforce the provisions of this chapter, shall be licensed by the
Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners and certified as a Backflow Prevention Assembly
Technicians.
§ 18-5-017 Enforcement.
(A) Enforcement Authority. The Director and the City Attorney, and each of them, are
hereby authorized to enforce the provisions of this chapter by any one or more of the
enforcement mechanisms set forth in this chapter.
(B) Inspection and Enforcement a Governmental Function. The inspectors, agents or
representatives of the City charged with enforcement of this chapter shall be deemed to
be performing a governmental function for the benefit of the general public and neither
the city, the Director, nor the individual inspector, agent, or representative of the city
engaged in inspection or enforcement activities under this chapter when acting in good
faith and without malice, shall ever be held liable for any loss or damage, whether real
or asserted, caused or alleged to have been caused as a result of the performance of
such governmental function.
(C) Right of Entry. As a condition of the City providing water service directly or indirectly
to property, whether within or outside the corporate limits and as a condition of
connection to the public potable water system by customers under this chapter, any
authorized officer or employee of the City may enter, inspect, monitor or conduct
enforcement activities with respect to any part of the public or private potable water
system servicing such premises, and shall have a right to enter without delay to, upon or
through any premises to gain access to a cross connection, backflow prevention
assembly or piping and, without limitation, may inspect any customer's potable water
system, or piping, or records pertinent thereto, rewired under this chapter and/or the
Cross Connection Control Ordinance, Rules or Regulations of any governmental entity
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with whom the City may have an interlocal agreement for the provision of wholesale
water services. This right of entry shall extend to public streets, easements and private
property within which any portion of the public or private potable water system
servicing such premises may be located.
(D) .Arrangement for Access. The customer connected to the public potable water system
shall make all necessary arrangements, at its sole expense, to remove without delay
security barriers or other obstacles to access by the Director.
(E) Obstruction of Access, Unreasonable Delays Prohibited. Obstruction or unreasonable
delay security barriers or other obstacles are prohibited to access by the Director.
(F) Administrative Search Warrants. If the Director has been refused access to a building,
structure or property or any private potable system connected to the public potable
water system, and if the Director has demonstrated probable cause to believe that a
violation of this chapter, a plumbing permit or other order issued hereunder exists, or
that there is a need to inspect as part of the City's routine inspection program designed
to verify compliance with this chapter or any permit or order issued hereunder, or to
protect the overall health, safety and welfare of the community then, upon application
by the Director, a judge of the Municipal Court shall issue a search and/or seizure
warrant describing therein the specific location subject to search and the property or
items subject to seizure. Such warrant shall be served at reasonable hours in the
company of a uniformed police officer. In the event of an emergency affecting public
health and safety, such inspection shall be made without the necessity of a warrant.
(G) Notice of Violation (NOV). Whenever the Director determines that any person has
violated or is violating this chapter, the conditions of registration as a certified
technician, a plumbing permit, installation requirements of a backflow prevention
assembly under this chapter, or any other cross connection protection requirement, the
Director may, but shall not be required, to serve upon said person a written NOV
describing the violation and the action required to correct the same. Such NOV shall
inform the recipient that, within five (5) calendar days of receipt thereof, the person
receiving the same shall provide to the Director an explanation of the violation and a
plan for the satisfactory correction and prevention thereof, to include specific actions
for correction of the violation, provided however that:
(I) submission of the proposed corrective plan shall in no form or manner relieve
the user of criminal or civil liability for violations of this chapter whether before
or after receipt of the NOV; and
(2) nothing in this subpart shall be construed to limit the authority of the Director to
pursue any other enforcement action or remedy, including, without limitation,
such emergency actions the Director determines to be necessary, without first
issuing a NOV.
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(H) Criminal Penalty. A person who violates any provision of this chapter is violating a
City ordinance that governs health and sanitation and shall be guilty of a class "C"
misdemeanor for each day or portion thereof during which the violation is continued.
Each such offense is punishable by a fine not to exceed two -thousand dollars
($2,000.00).
(1 } Culpable Mental State Not Required. A culpable mental state is not required to prove a
criminal offense under this chapter.
(3) Civil Actions. The City Attorney is hereby authorized to enforce this chapter by civil
court actions in accordance with the procedures therefor provided by state or federal.
law, including, without limitation, actions for injunction, damages, declaratory, relief
or other remedies that the City Attorney shall deem appropriate to pursue.
(K) Civil Penalties. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, if
(1) a person has received actual notice of the provisions of this chapter, and
(2) after the person received notice of the provisions of this chapter, such person
committed or continued acts in violation of this chapter or failed to tape action
necessary for compliance with this chapter,
the City Attorney may initiate a suit against the owner, occupant or manager of
premises that are in violation of this chapter to recover a civil penalty not to exceed one
thousand dollars ($ 1,000.00) per day for each such violation. Each day or fractional
part thereof that such noncompliance continues shall constitute a separate violation for
which civil penalties shall accrue under this chapter. Water service may be
discontinued if violations are not corrected within five (5) days of notification by the
Director.
A suit for civil penalties hereunder shall not prevent nor be a prerequisite for taping any
other action against a person in violation of this chapter. Such suit may also include
therein a request for such other and further relief as the City Attorney shall deem
advisable including, without limitation, an action for injunction or claim for damages to
recover for expenses, loss or damage to City property occasioned by reason of such
violation.
(L) Remedies Cumulative. All remedies authorized under this chapter are cumulative of all
others unless otherwise expressly provided. Accordingly, the ding of a criminal action
shall not preclude the pursuit of a civil or administrative action for violation of this
chapter nor shall the filing of a civil action preclude the pursuit of any other action or
remedy, administrative or criminal.
(M) Persons Responsible. A person is responsible for a violation of this chapter if:
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(1) the person commits or assists in the commission of a violation; or
(2) the person is the owner, occupant or manager of the property or facilities
determined to be the source of a violation of this chapter.
(lei) Tenant Responsibility. Where an owner of property leases or rents the same to any
person as tenant or lessee, the owner or tenant, or both, may be held responsible by the
Director for noncompliance with the provisions of this chapter.
(0) Expenses, Loss or Damage. Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be
liable to the City for all expenses, loss or damage incurred By the City by reason of
such violation.
(P) Annual Testing. The Director may contract with a registered certified backflow
prevention assembly technician to perform annual testing requirements and charge the
customer for said expense(s) included with the monthly water bill. Nonpayment of this
special billing shall be grounds for termination of service in accordance with the Code
of the City of Georgetown. The customer shall complete repairs and a re -certification.
of said assembly(s) within five (5) days of a failed annual "test". Failure to repair
defective backflow prevention assembly(s) within the appropriate time will result in
notification to remove said service connection.
(Q) Nater Service. The Director may refuse or discontinue water service if a backflow
prevention assembly is not installed, certified for operation, repaired or replaced as
required under this chapter.
(R) Test and Maintenance Reports. The Director may require submittal of complete test
and maintenance reports to the Utility of any testable backflow prevention device
installed prior to final release of water or wastewater inspections. Failure to secure
final release of water or wastewater connections shall result in placement of a hold on
the issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy from the Department of Development
Services.
§ 18-5-018 Water Purveyor.
(A) Under this chapter, the water purveyor has primary responsibility to prevent water from
unapproved sources, or any other substances, from entering the public potable water
supply. The water purveyor is prohibited from installing or maintaining a water service
connection to a consumer's water supply system within its jurisdiction where a health,
contaminant, plumbing or pollution hazard exists, or will probably exist, unless the
potable water supply is protected against backflow by an approved assembly.
(B) The water purveyor shall exercise reasonable vigilance to insure that the customer has
taken the proper steps to protect the public potable water supply. To insure that the
proper precautions are taken, the water purveyor is required to determine the degree of
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hazard to the public potable water supply. When it is determined that a backflow
prevention assembly is required for the protection of the public potable water supply,
the water purveyor shall require the customer, at the customer's expense, to install an
approved backflow prevention assembly, to test immediately upon installation, and test
periodically as required by City adopted Plumbing Code, 1997.
§ 18-5-019 Inspections.
The Director shall be authorized under this chapter to inspect any premise, real property, or
building connected to the public potable water system. Inspections shall include, without
limitation, a survey of such premise, real property or building for determination of cross
connections, existing backflow prevention assembly installation(s), annual testing and
certification of assemblies by a certified backflow prevention assembly technician or
inspection and/or certification of any backflow prevention assembly(s).
PART 2. That if any provision, section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the
application of same to any person or set of circumstances are for any reason held to be
unconstitutional, void, invalid, or if for any reason be held to be unconstitutional, void, invalid
or for any reason unenforceable, the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its
application to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby, it being the intent
of the City Council of the City of Georgetown in adopting and the Mayor in approving this
Ordinance, that no portion hereof or provision or regulation contained herein, shall become
inoperative or fall by reason of any unconstitutionality or invalidity of any other portion,
provision or regulation.
PART 3. This ordinance shall become effective and be in full force and effect in (10) ten days
on and after publication in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the City of
Georgetown.
PASSED AND APPROVED.
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Leo Wood
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Mayor
APPROVED:
Marianne Banks Sandra Lee
City Attorney City Secretary
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