§ 114-250. Purpose.  


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  • The purpose of this article is to:

    (1)

    Protect the public potable water supply of the city from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within a consumer's internal distribution system or a consumer's private water system such contaminants or pollutants which could backflow into the public water systems;

    (2)

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

    (3)

    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.

(Ord. No. 98-12, § 2, 5-14-98)