The City shall operate and maintain the water system in an efficient and economical manner and supply water as fairly and equitably as possible. The charges to be made for service shall be set at rates necessary to enable the City to recover all costs of supplying water including, but not limited to, the costs for the following:
A. 
Purchasing, pumping, treating, storing, transmitting and distributing water;
B. 
Customer service;
C. 
Administration;
D. 
Overhead;
E. 
Debt service;
F. 
Replacement and maintenance of facilities; and
G. 
All other necessary and appropriate expenses.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
The City shall be responsible for operating, maintaining and replacing all portions of the distribution system and water facilities which are owned by the City. The City shall not be responsible for operating, maintaining or replacing any water facilities or portions of the distribution system that are not owned by the City. The installation of a measuring device upon private property or within a portion of the distribution system not owned by the City shall not create any obligation of the City for the operation, maintenance or replacement of any water facilities not owned by the City.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
Any portion of the distribution system, including any water main, service connection or meter which is located in City property, the public right-of-way or in easements, shall be under the exclusive control of the City and owned, managed and operated under the direction of the Director.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
No person shall supply water to any person or to any premises except as authorized by City permit or as approved in writing by the City for service outside the City or for temporary service.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
When the City has discovered that a customer has obtained water service by fraudulent means, or has diverted the water service for unauthorized use, at the discretion of the Director, the service to that customer may be discontinued without notice. The City shall not be required to restore service until the customer has complied with all rules and requirements of the City and the City has been reimbursed for the full amount of the service rendered and the actual or estimated costs to the City incurred by reason of the fraudulent use.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
The customer shall be responsible for the proper operation and maintenance of the customer's private water line and for any damages to the distribution system or the property of a third party or loss or waste of water resulting from the customer's private water line. All water must be applied efficiently and used in a reasonable and beneficial manner.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
The City shall have access at all reasonable hours, and at all times during emergency situations at the discretion of the Director, to meters, service connections and other property owned by the City, whether located on or off the customer's premises, for the purposes of inspection, installation, repair, maintenance, operation, turn on, turn off or removal of the City's property.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
If an unsafe or hazardous condition is found to exist on the customer's premises, or if the use of water thereon by apparatus, appliances, equipment or otherwise is found to be detrimental or damaging to the City or its customers, the service may be shut off without notice; provided, that the City shall notify the customer immediately of the reasons for the discontinuance and the corrective action to be taken by the customer before service can be restored.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
A. 
A customer's private water line shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times for good cause to a representative of the City. However, before a City representative enters a customer's premises for the purpose of inspecting non-City-owned facilities, the City shall obtain the occupant's consent or the City shall give twenty-four (24) hour advance notice, in writing, to the occupant of the City's intention to enter and inspect the customer's private water line.
B. 
For purposes of this section, good cause for inspection shall be determined by the Director of Public Works and may be based on visual or other substantial evidence received by the Public Works Department demonstrating any of the following:
1. 
Failure of the customer to maintain his or her facilities in a suitable condition to prevent waste of water;
2. 
The existence of any unprotected cross-connections on the customer's premises or the lack of adequate backflow protection at the service connection;
3. 
Any violation by the customer of any rules and regulations of the City regarding water service; or
4. 
Any situation which presents an immediate or substantial health hazard to the public water system or to City residents.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1; Ord. 14-016 § 1)
Except as provided in DMC § 14.02.240, it is unlawful for any person to interfere, seek or cause to interfere with the inspection, installation, removal, maintenance or other lawful activity by a City representative, of any part of the distribution system owned by the City, or with the inspection by a City representative of non-City owned facilities.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
No person shall place or cause to be placed on any water line easements any wires, fences, trees, buildings or other structures, either temporary or permanent, or any refuse, rubbish, debris or other objects which may impede or otherwise interfere with the ready access by the City to any portion of the distribution system owned by the City or which impedes or otherwise interferes with the optimal flow of the water line. Any such obstruction, upon the written request of the Director, shall immediately be removed by the violator at no expense to the City or removed by the City at violator's expense, and shall not be replaced.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
The City shall not be liable for any interruption, shortage or insufficiency of water supply or for pressure at the customer's point of connection, or for any loss or damages occasioned thereby.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
A. 
When a person opens, grades, excavates, fills or performs other street construction where it is deemed necessary to expose, remove, raise, lower or otherwise affect any portion of the distribution system owned by the City, the person performing the street construction shall obtain a City encroachment permit. Advance notice in accordance with requirements of the encroachment permit shall be submitted in writing to the City of the person's intention to perform the construction and immediate notice upon exposure or contact with such system for review and approval by the City.
B. 
At its option, the City may elect to perform the removal, raising, lowering or other construction of the City's distribution system which is necessitated by the street construction. In the event that the City performs any construction in accordance with the applicant, the applicant shall be required to indemnify the City for the design, construction and installation of the distribution system.
Prior to the City performing construction on its distribution system, the applicant or customer responsible for such street construction shall pay the City a reasonable deposit in an amount not to exceed the estimated cost of the City's construction. Upon completion of the construction, the City shall refund that portion, if any, of the deposit which exceeds the actual costs of construction and the applicant or customer responsible for the construction shall pay the amount, if any, by which the actual costs of construction exceed the deposit.
C. 
The person performing the street construction shall be liable for any damage to the City's distribution system resulting from the street construction or from the person's construction on the City's distribution system.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
Portions of this chapter may be waived at the discretion of the Director for persons hired by the City to construct any part of the City's distribution system.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
All procedures, design, work, materials, capacities, facilities and other improvements shall be based on the applicable provisions of the most current State and local regulations and generally accepted standards of water works practice insofar as deemed appropriate by the City considering the conditions and where not in conflict with City standards. Such regulations and standards are included in but not necessarily limited to the following sources:
A. 
Waterworks Standards of the California Department of Public Health Services;
B. 
Titles 17 and 22 of the California Administrative Code;
C. 
California Safe Drinking Water Act;
D. 
Uniform Plumbing Code; and
E. 
American Water Works Association.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1)
Reference is hereby made to Chapter 18.13 DMC, Landscaping. Such chapter refers to the State's Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO), and requires all vegetation and landscaping required by the zoning regulations to employ drought-resistant species.
(Ord. 14-008 § 1; Ord. 24-002 § 6 (Exh. B))