§ 10.12.06. Facilities requiring backflow protection.

A.

The following is a partial list of the facilities, which may require reduced-pressure principle backflow preventers at the service connection. Requirements are based upon the degree of hazard afforded the public potable water system.

1.

Automatic car washes

2.

Auxiliary water systems

3.

Beauty parlors and barber shops

4.

Doctor and dental offices

5.

Exterminators

6.

Facilities with commercial boilers or chilled water system

7.

Fire systems

8.

Hospitals, medical buildings, sanitariums, morgues, mortuaries, autopsy facilities, nursing and convalescent homes, and clinics.

9.

Irrigation systems

10.

Laboratories (industrial, commercial, medical and school)

11.

Commercial laundries and dry cleaners

12

.Radiator shops

13.

Restricted, classified, or other closed facilities

14.

Sand and gravel plants

15.

Wastewater treatment plants, pump stations and storm water pumping facilities.

16.

Water front homes, facilities and industries

17.

Others found with high hazards.

B.

The following is a partial list of facilities which may require double-check valve assemblies.

1.

Apartments

2.

Greenhouses and nurseries

3.

Hotels and motels

4.

Restaurants and food handlers

5.

Service stations

6.

Swimming pools

7.

Others, as found with suspected medium hazards.

( Ord. No. 97-20, § 1.6 )