As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes any artificial or natural mineral, spring or other
water bottled for drinking purposes.
Any water system not classified as public, intended primarily
for the use of the occupants of the premises. The system shall include
all of the sources, treatment works and distribution piping by which
water is furnished to water taps or outlets of the system.
Any water system serving or intended to serve water for human
consumption for domestic uses or purposes to more than one service
connection, irrespective of payments to be made for water service.
The system shall include all of the sources, treatment works and distribution
lines to the point of service connection at the meter, property line
or any similar premises connection point which are under one ownership,
management and operation.
A.
No person shall provide or make accessible a public water supply
or bottled water for human consumption or domestic use unless the
source, treatment and distribution of such water shall be so protected
from pollution and so maintained as to deliver a water of safe, sanitary
quality. Such delivered water shall not contain bacterial, chemical
or other contamination in such quantity as may be injurious to health
or as may indicate such water to be unsatisfactory for human consumption
as determined by test in a laboratory approved for this purpose by
the Board. Public water supplies shall conform to the United States
Public Health Service drinking water standards now in effect or hereafter
adopted.
B.
Springs and wells. No spring or well classified as a public water
supply shall be used as a source of domestic water supply which does
not conform to the requirements and standards set forth in this section.
C.
Private water supplies. No person shall provide or maintain a private water supply to be used for drinking or other domestic purposes by any person, other than the owner thereof, unless such water supply shall be potable, protected against pollution and free from bacterial contamination in accordance with the prevailing bacterial standards of water quality, as defined in Subsection A.
D.
Disinfection. No new or repaired water supply system or any structure
which may have become contaminated accidentally or otherwise shall
be placed in use before such system or structure has been effectively
cleaned and disinfected in accordance with accepted practices and
standards of the American Water Works Association now in effect or
hereafter adopted.
E.
Treatment. Whenever the Board shall determine that the water delivered
to consumers for drinking or other domestic use does not meet the
requirements of these rules and regulations, it shall so notify the
person in responsible charge of such water supply and may order the
treatment, abandonment, sealing or posting of that portion of the
distribution system or connections within the Borough which does not
meet the requirements of these rules and regulations.
F.
Cross-connections and interconnections. No person shall permit any
connection between a potable water supply and an unapproved auxiliary
water supply or any structure containing sewage, nonpotable water
or other substance injurious to health.
G.
Discontinuance of use of well or spring. Whenever, upon examination,
it shall appear that the water from a well or spring or other source
classified as a public water supply is not suitable for human consumption,
the use of such water shall be discontinued, and the well or spring
shall be abandoned.
H.
Abandoned wells. No well shall be used for any purpose other than
as a source of water. Abandoned wells shall be filled with clean earth
or capped with substantial watertight slabs so as to prevent the contamination
of the underground water supply.
I.
Water samples.
(1)
Samples of water from any water supply classified as a public water
supply may be taken for examination by the Health Officer as often
as he/she or she deems necessary for the detection of pollution or
unwholesomeness. The Board or Health Officer shall condemn any water
supply classified as a public water supply which it examines and finds
to be polluted to the extent that it is a present or potential danger
to the public health.
(2)
The Director of Health and/or the Health Officer may, at his discretion,
refuse to take for examination samples of water from any private water
supply which is not adequately protected from surface contamination.
