Chapter 13.28 CROSS-CONNECTIONS
Section 13.28.120 Where protection is required.
A. An approved backflow prevention
device shall be installed on all connections to the
public water supply as described in the Plumbing Code, 77 Ill. Adm. Code 890 and the Agency s
regulations 35 Ill. Adm. Code 680. In addition, an approved backflow prevention device shall be
installed on each service line to a consumer s water system serving premises, where in the
judgment of the superintendent of water, actual or potential hazards to the public water supply
system exist.
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:
1. Premises having an auxiliary water
supply, unless such auxiliary supply is accepted as an
additional source by the superintendent of water and the source is approved by the Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency;
2. Premises on which any substance
is handled which can create an actual or potential hazard
to the public water supply system. This shall include premises having sources or systems
containing process fluids or waters originating from the public water supply system which are no
longer under the sanitary control of the superintendent of water;
3. Premises having internal cross-connection
that, in the judgment of the superintendent of
water and/or the cross-connection control device inspector, are not correctable or have intricate
plumbing arrangements which make it impractical to determine whether or not cross-connections
exist;
4. Premises where, because of security
requirements or other prohibitions 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 re-established.
C. An approved backflow prevention
device shall be installed on all connections to the
public water supply as described in the Plumbing Code, 77 Ill. Adm. Code 890 and the Agency s
regulations 35 Ill. Adm. Code 653. In addition, an approved backflow prevention device shall be
installed on each service line to a consumer s water system serving, but not necessarily limited
to, the following types of facilities unless the superintendent of water determines that no actual
or potential hazard to the public water supply system exists:
1. Hospitals, mortuaries, clinics,
nursing homes;
2. Laboratories;
3. Piers, docks, waterfront facilities;
4. Sewage treatment plants, sewage
pumping stations or stormwater pumping stations;
5. Food or beverage processing plants;
6. Chemical plants;
7. Metal plating industries;
8. Petroleum processing or storage
plants;
9. Radioactive material processing
plants or nuclear reactors;
10. Car washes;
11. Pesticide, or herbicide or extermination
plants and trucks;
12. Farm service and fertilizer plants
and trucks. (Ord. 974 Exh. A § 6, 1992)
13.28.120