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Cross-Connection and Backflow Prevention Program/Ordinance for:
1. Purpose:
A. To protect the public potable water supply served by Clay Municipal Water Works from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolatin, within its customers internal distribution system, such contaminants or pollution which could backflow or back-siphon into the public water system.
B. To promote the elimination or control of existing cross-connections, actual or potential, health hazards between its customers in-plant potable water system, and non-potable systems.
C. To provide for the maintenance of a continuing program of cross-connection control, this will effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of all potable water systems by cross-connection.
II. Authority
A. By the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, and the Code of West Virginia Chapter 16, Article 1 and Public Health Laws, West Virginia Bureau for Public Health 1, Article SB, the water purveyor has the primary responsibility for preventing water from unapproved sources, or any other substances form entering the public potable water system.
B. Clay Municipal Water Works rules and regulations adopted.
Ill. Responsibility
The water purveyor shall be responsible for the protection of the public potable water distribution system from contamination or pollution due to the backflow or back-siphonagen of contaminants or pollutants through the water service connection. If, in the judgment of the water purveyor, an approved backflow assembly is required at the service connection to any customers premises, the water purveyor, or its deligated agent shall give notice in writing to said customer to install an approved backflow prevention assembly at each service connection assemblies at his own expense and failure or refusal or inability on the part of the customer to install said assembly or assemblies within 90 days, shall constitute a grounds for discontinuing water service to the premises until such assembly or assemblies have been properly installed. It is also the responsibility of the said customer to have the assembly or assemblies inspected by a licensed inspector annually and the report sent to the water purveyor.