HomeMy Public PortalAbout1988_01_13_O001ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE:
PRESENTED January 13, 1988
88-0-1 ADOPTED January 13, 1988
AMENDING CHAPTER 19, ARTICLE IV, SECTION 19-58 OF THE TOWN
CODE REGARDING CROSS-CONNECTION AND BACKFLOW PREVENTION
CONTROL
WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Health Waterworks Regulations require
that each owner of a waterworks establish and enforce a program of cross-
connection control and backflow prevention for each waterworks; and
WHEREAS, the existing Town Code does not clearly establish authority for
requirement of backflow prevention devices on all fire protection systems~ and
WHEREAS, the American Water Works Association recommends isolation of
fire protection systems from potable water systems using proper backflow
prevention assemblies based on the degree of determined hazard posed by the
fire protection system:
THEREFORE, ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as
follows:
Section I. Chapter 19, Article IV, Section 19-58 of the Town Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE IV. CROSS-CONNECTION AND
BACKFLOW PREVENTION CONTROL
Sec. 19-58. Where protection is required.
(a) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each
service line to a consumer's water system where, in the judgment of the town,
a health, pollutional or system hazard to the water system exists.
(b) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each
service line to a consumer's water system serving premises where the following
conditions exist, except as noted in paragraph (7) below:
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AMENDING CHAPTER 19, ARTICLE IV, SECTION 19-58 OF THE TOWN CODE REGARDING
CROSS-CONNECTION AND BACKFLOW PREVENTION CONTROL
(1) Premises having an auxiliary water system, unless such auxiliary
system is accepted as an additional source by the town.
(2) Premises on which any substance is handled in such a manner as to
create an actual or potential hazard to the water system (including
premises having sources or systems containing process fluids or
waters originating from a waterworks which are not under the control
of the town).
(3) Premises having internal cross-connections that, in the judgment of
the director of utilities may not be easily correctible or intricate
plumbing arrangements which make it impractical to determine whether
or not cross-connections exist.
(4) Premises where, because of security requirements or other prohibi-
tions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a
complete cross-connection survey.
(5) Premises having a repeated history of cross-connections being
established or reestablished.
(6) Premises having fire protection systems utilizing combinations of
sprinklers, fire loops, storage tanks, pumps, antifreeze protection
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(7) Premises having booster pumps connected to the waterworks shall be
equipped with a low-pressure cutoff device to shut off the booster
pump when the pressure in the waterworks drops to a minimum of ten
psi gauge.
(8) Other premises specified by the town when cause can be shown that a
potential cross-connection hazard exists.
(c) An approved backflow prevention device shall be installed on each
service line to a consumer's water system serving the following types of
facilities.
(1) Hospitals; mortuaries, clinics, nursing homes;
(2) Laboratories;
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AHENDING CHAPTER 19, ARTICLE IV, SECTION 19-58 OF THE TOWN CODE REGARDING
CROSS-CONNECTION AND BACKFLOW PREVENTION CONTROL
(3) Piers, docks, waterfront facilities;
(4) Sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping stations or storm water
pumping stations;
(5) Food and beverage processing plants;
(6) Chemical plants, dyeing plants;
(7) Metal plating industries;
(8) Petroleum processing or storage plants;
(9) Radioactive materials processing plants, nuclear reactors;
(10) Car washes;
(11) Lawn sprinkler systems, irrigations systems;
(12) Fire service systems;
(13) Slaughterhouses and poultry processing plants;
(14) Farms where the water is used for other than household purposes;
(15) Others specified by the director of utilities where potential
backflow or cross-connection hazard can be shown.
This Ordinance shall be in effect upon its passage.
13th day of January
Section II.
PASSED this
, 1988.
R~bert E. Sevila', Mayor
Town of Leesburg
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