CITY OF DOVER
BONNER COUNTY, IDAHO
Ordinance #80
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE CITY OF DOVER, BONNER COUNTY, IDAHO, REGULATING AND ADMINISTRATING CROSS-CONNECTION CONTROL POLICY; PROVIDING DEFINITIONS APPLICABLE TO AND USED IN THE ORDINANCE; PROVIDING AND ASSIGNING MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SYSTEM; PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ORDINANCE.
Section 1. CROSS-CONNECTION CONTROL- GENERAL POLICY
1.1.1 To protect the public potable water supply of City of Dover from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within the consumer's internal distribution system(s) or the consumer's private water system(s) such contaminant's or pollutants which could backflow into the public water systems; and
1.1.2 To promote the elimination or control of existing cross-connections, actual or potential, between the consumer's in-plant potable water system(s) and non-potable water system(s), plumbing fixtures and industrial piping systems; and
1.1.3 To provide for the maintenance of a continuing Program of Cross-Connection Control which will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of all potable water systems.
1.1.4 Responsibility. The Certified Water System Technician shall be responsible for the protection of the public potable water distribution system from contamination or pollution due to the backflow of contaminant's or pollutants through the water service connection. If, in the judgement of said Official an approved backflow prevention assembly is required at the consumer's water service connection; or, within the consumer's private water system for the safety of the water system, the Official or his designated agent shall give notice in writing to said consumer to install such an approved backflow prevention assembly(s) at a specific location(s) on his premises. The City of Dover shall immediately install such an approved backflow prevention assembly(s) at the cities expense.
1.1.5 Payment. The City will bill the owner the actual cost of the installation of the backflow device and amortize over the next 6 months to be included in the water billing.
Section 2. DEFINITIONS
2.1 Water Commissioner or Health Official. The Certified Water System Technician in charge of the Water Department of the City of Dover is invested with the authority and responsibility for the implementation of an effective cross-connection control program and for the enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance.
2.2 Approved.
a. The term "approved" as herein used in reference to a water supply shall mean a water supply which has been approved by he health agency having jurisdiction.
b. The term "approved" as herein used in reference to an air gap, a double check valve assembly, a reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly or other back flow prevention assemblies or methods shall mean an approval by the administrative authority having jurisdiction.
2.3 Auxiliary Water Supply. Any water supply on or available to the premises other than the purveyor's approved public water supply will be considered as an auxiliary water supply. These auxiliary waters may include water from another purveyor's public potable water supply or any natural source(s) such as a well, spring, river, stream, harbor, etc., or 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.
2.4 Backflow. The term "backflow" shall mean the undesirable reversal of flow of water or mixtures of water and other liquids, gases, or other substances into distribution pipes of the potable supply of water from any source or sources. See terms Backsiphonage (2.6) and Backpressure (2.5).
2.5 Backpressure. The term "backflow" shall mean any elevation of pressure in the downstream piping system (by pump, elevation of piping, or steam and/or air pressure) above the supply pressure at the point of consideration which would cause, or tend to cause, a reversal of the normal direction of flow.
2.6 Backsiphonage. The term "backsiphonage" shall mean a form of backflow due to a reduction in system pressure which causes a subatmospheric pressure to exist at a site in the water system.
2.7 Backflow Preventer. An assembly or means designed to prevent backflow.
2.7.1 Air gap. The term "air gap" shall mean 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" 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 1 inch (2.54 cm).
2.7.2 Reduced Pressure Principle Backflow Prevention Assembly. The term "reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly" shall mean an assembly containing two independently acting approved check valves together with a hydrolically operating, mechanically independent pressure differential relief valve located between the check valves and at the same time below the first check valve. The unit shall include property located resilient seated test cocks and tightly closing resilient seated shutoff valves at each end of the assembly. This assembly is designed to protect against a non-health (i.e., pollutant) or health hazard (i.e, contaminant). This assembly shall not be used for backflow protection of sewage or reclaimed water. This assembly shall be UL Listed.
2.7.3 Double Check Valve Backflow Prevention Assembly. The term "Double check valve backflow prevention assembly" shall mean as assembly composed of two independently acting, approved check valves, including tightly closing resilient seated shutoff valves attached at each end of the assembly and fitted with properly located resilient test cocks. (See Specifications, Section 10 for additional details). This assembly shall only be used to protect against a non-health hazard (i.e. pollutant). This assembly shall be UL Listed.
2.8. Contamination. The term "contamination shall mean an impairment of the quality of water which creates an actual hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease by sewage, industrial fluids, water, etc.
2.9. Cross- Connections. The term "cross-connection" shall mean any unprotected actual or potential connection or structural arrangement between a public or an consumer's potable water system and any other source or system through which it is possible to introduce into any part of the potable system any used water, industrial fluid, gas, or substance other than the intended potable water with which the system is supplied. Bypass arrangements, jumper connections, removable sections, swivel or change-over devices and other temporary or permanent devices through which or because of which backflow can or may occur are considered to be cross-connections.
a. The term "direct cross-connection" shall mean a cross-connection which is subject to bolt backsiphonage and backpressure.
b. The term "indirect cross-connection" shall mean a cross-connection which is subject to backsiphonage only.
2.10 Cross-Connections- Controlled. A connection between a potable water system and a non-potable water system with an approved backflow prevention assembly properly installed and maintained so that it will continuously afford the protection commensurate with the degree of hazard.
2.11 Cross-Connection Control by Containment. The term "service protection" shall mean the appropriate type or method of backflow protection at the service connection, commensurate with the degree of hazard of the consumer's potable water system.
2.12 Hazard, Degree of. The term "degree of hazard" shall mean either a pollutional (non-health) or contamination (health) hazard and is derived from the evaluation of conditions within a system.
2.12.1 Hazard- Health. The term "health hazard" shall mean an actual or potential threat of contamination of a physical or toxic nature to the public potable water system or the consumer's potable water system that would be a danger to health.
2.12.2 Hazard- Plumbing. The term "plumbing hazard" shall mean an internal or plumbing type cross-connection in a consumer's potable water system that may be either a pollutional or contamination type hazard. This includes but is not limited to cross-connections to toilets, sinks, lavatories, wash trays and lawn sprinkling systems. Plumbing type cross-connections can be located in many types structures including homes, apartment houses, hotels and commercial or industrial establishments. Such a connection, if permitted to exist, must be properly protected by an appropriate type of backflow prevention assembly.
2.12.3 Hazard- Pollutional. The term "pollutional hazard" shall mean an actual or potential threat to the physical properties of the water system or the potability of the public or the consumer's potable water system but which would not constitute a health or system hazard, as defined. The maximum degree or intensity of pollution to which the potable water system could be degraded under this definition would cause a nuisance or be aesthetically objectionable or could cause minot damage to the system or its appurtenances.
2.12.4 Hazard- System. The term "system hazard" shall mean an actual or potential threat of severe danger to the physical properties of the public or the consumer's potable water system or of a pollution or contamination which would have a protracted effect on the quality of the potable water in the system.
2.13 Industrial Fluids. The term "industrial fluids" shall mean any fluid or solution which may be chemically, biologically or otherwise contaminated or polluted in a form or concentration which would constitute a health, system, pollutional, or plumbing hazard if introduced into an approved water supply. This may include, not be limited to: polluted or contaminated used water; all types of process water and "used waters" originating from the public potable water system which may deteriorate in sanitary quality; chemicals in fluid form; plating acids and alkalies; circulated cooling waters connected to an open cooling tower and/or cooling waters that are chemically or biologically treated or stabilized with toxic substances; contaminated natural waters such as from wells, springs, streams, rivers, bays, harbors, seas, irrigation canals or systems, etc.; oils, gases glycerine, parrafins, caustic and acid solutions and other liquid and gaseous fluids used industrially, for other processes, or for fire fighting purposes.
2.14 Pollution. The term "pollution" shall mean an impairment of the quality of the water to a degree which does not create a hazard to the public health but which does adversely and unreasonably affect the aesthetic qualities of such waters for domestic use.
2.15 Water- Potable. The term "potable water" shall mean any public potable water supply which has been investigated and approved by the health agency. The system must be operating under a valid health permit. In determining what constitutes an approved water supply, the health agency has final judgement as to its safety and potability.
2.16 Water- Non-potable. The term "non- potable water" shall mean a water supply which has not been approved for human consumption by the health agency having jurisdiction.
2.17 Water- Service Connection. The term "service connection" shall mean the terminal end of a service connection from the public potable water system, (i.e., where the water purveyor may lose jurisdiction and sanitary control of the water at its point of delivery to the consumer's water system). If a water meter is installed at the end of the service connection, then the service connection shall mean the downstream end of the water meter.
2.18 Water- Used. The term "used water" shall mean any water supplied by a water purveyor from public potable water system to a consumer's water system after it has passed through the service connection and is no longer under the control of the water purveyor. See Section 7.2.3.33.
Section 3. REQUIREMENTS
3.1 Water System
3.1.1 The water system shall be considered as made up of two parts: The Water Purveyor's System and the Consumer's System.
3.1.2 Water Purveyor's System shall consist of the source facilities and the distribution system; and shall include all those facilities of the water system under complete control of the purveyor, up to the point where the consumer's system begins.
3.1.3 The source shall include all components of the facilities utilized in the production, treatment, storage, and delivery of water to the distribution system.
3.1.4 The distribution system shall include the network of conduits used for the delivery of water from the source to the consumer's system.
3.1.5 The consumer's system shall include those parts of the facilities beyond the termination of the water purveyor's distribution system which are utilized in conveying potable water to points of use.
3.2 Policy
3.2.1
No water service connection to any premise shall be installed o maintained by the water purveyor unless the water supply is protected as required by the City of Dover laws and regulations and this Ordinance. Service of water to any premise shall be discontinued by the water purveyor if a backflow prevention assembly required by this Ordinance is not installed, tested and maintained, or if it is found that a backflow prevention assembly has been removed, bypasses, or if an unprotected cross-connection exists on the premises, Service will not be restored until such conditions or defects are corrected
3.2.2 The consumer's system should be open for inspection at all responsible times to authorized representatives of the City of Dover to determine whether unprotected cross-connection or other structural or sanitary hazards, including violations of these regulations, exist. When such a condition becomes known, the Official shall deny or immediately discontinue service to the premises by providing for a physical break in the service line until the consumer has correct the condition(s) in conformance with the City of Dover statutes relating to plumbing and water supplies and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
3.2.3 An approved backflow prevention assembly shall also be installed n each service line to a consumer's water system at or near the property line or immediately inside the building being served; but in all cases, before the first branch line leading off the service line whether the following conditions exist:
a. In the case of premises having auxiliary water supply which is not or many not be safe bacteriological or chemical quality and which is not acceptable as an additional source by the Official, the public water system shall be protected against backflow from the premises by installing an approved backflow prevention assembly in the service line commensurate with the degree of hazard.
b. In case of premises on which any industrial fluids or any other objectionable substance in handled is such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the public water system, the public water system shall be protected against backflow from the premises by installing an approved backflow prevention assembly in the service line commensurate with the degree of hazard. This shall include the handling of process waters and waters originating from the water purveyor system which have been subject to deterioration in quality.
c. In the case of premises having (1) internal cross-connection that cannot be permanently corrected or protected against, or (2) intricate plumbing and piping arrangements or where entry to all portion of the premises is not readily accessible for inspection purposes, making it impracticable or impossible to ascertain whether or not dangerous cross-connections exist, the public water system shall be protected against backflow from the premises by installing an approved backflow prevention assembly in the service line.
3.2.4 The type of protective assembly required under subsections 3.2.3a, b, and c, shall depend upon the degree of hazard which exists as follows:
a. In the case of any premise where there is an auxiliary water supply as stated in subsection 3.2.3.a of this section and it is not subject to any of the following rules, the public water system shall be protected by an approved air gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly.
b. In case of any premise where there is water or substance that would be objectionable but not hazardous to health, if introduced into the public water system, the public water system shall be protected by an approved double check valve backflow prevention assembly.
c. In case of any premise where there is any material dangerous to health which is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the public water system, the public water system shall be protected by an approved air gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly. Examples of premises where these conditions will exist include sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping stations, chemical manufacturing plants, hospitals, mortuaries and planting plants.
d. In the case of any premise where there are unprotected cross-connections, either actual or potential, the public water system shall be protected by an approved air gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly at the service station.
e. In the case of any premise where, because of security requirements or other prohibitions, or restrictions, i is impossible or impractical to make a complete in-plant cross-connection survey, the public water system shall be protected against backflow from the other premises by either an approved air gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly at the each service to the premise.
3.2.5 Any backflow prevention assembly required herein shall be a make, model and size approved by the Official. The term "Approved Backflow Prevention Assembly" shall mean as assembly that has been manufactured in full conformance with the standards established by the American Water Works Association entitled:
AWWA/ANSI C510-92 Standard for Double Check Valve Backflow Prevention Assemblies;
AWWWA/ANSI C511-92 Standard for Reduced Pressure Principle Backflow Prevention Assembly;
And, have met completely the laboratory and field performance specifications of the Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research of the University of Southern California (USC FCCCHR) established in:
Specification of Backflow Prevention Assemblies- Section 10 of the most current edition of the Manual of Cross-Connection Control.
Said AWWA and USC FCCCHR standards and specification have been adopted by the City of Dover. Final approval shall be evidenced by a "Certificate of Compliance" for the said AWWA Standards; or "Certificate of Approval" for said USC CCCHR Specifications; issued by an approved testing laboratory.
The following testing laboratory has been qualified to test and approve backflow prevention assemblies:
Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research
University of Southern California
KAP-200 University Park CMC-2531
Los Angels, California 90089-2531
Testing laboratories other than the laboratory listed above will be added to an approved list as they are qualified by the City of Dover.
Backflow preventers which may be subjected to backpressure or backsiphonage that have been fully tested and have been granted a Certificate of Approval by said qualified laboratory an are listed on the laboratory's current list of approved backflow prevention assemblies may be used without further test or qualification.
3.2.6 It shall be thee duty of the consumer at any premise where backflow prevention assemblies are installed to have a field test performed by a certified backflow prevention assembly tester upon installation and at least once per year. In those instances where the Official deems the hazard to be great enough he may require field tests at more frequent intervals. These test shall be at the expense of the water user and shall be performed by a certified tester. The consumer shall notify the Water Department in advance when the test are to be undertaken so that an official representative may witness the field tests if so desired. These assemblies shall be repaired, overhauled or replaced at the expense of the consumer whenever said assemblies are found to be defective. Records of such tests, repairs and overhaul shall be kept and made available to the Water Department.
3.2.7 All presently installed backflow prevention assemblies which do not meet the requirements of this section but were approved devices for the purposes described herein at the time of installation and which have been properly maintained, shall, except for the testing and maintenance requirements under subsection 3.2.6, be excluded from the requirements of these rules so long as the Water Department is assured that they will satisfactorily protect the water purveyor's system. Whenever the existing device is moved from the present location or requires more than minimum maintenance or when the Water Department finds that the maintenance constitutes a hazard to health, the unit shall be replaced by an approved backflow prevention assembly meeting the requirements of this section.
3.2.8 The Water Department shall make recommendations for rules and policies with respect to the enforcement of this ordinance. All such rules and policies shall be consistent with the provisions of this ordinance as reviewed and approved by the City Council.
Approved and made effective after publication on the 10th day of November, 2005
Paul "Randy" Curless, Mayor
Ruth Guthrie, City Clerk
Legal SNP#7441
November 25, 2005