As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BOTTLED WATER
Includes any artificial or natural mineral, spring- or other water bottled for drinking purposes.
PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY
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.
PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY
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 Township 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 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 or she deems necessary for the detection of pollution or unwholesomeness. The Board 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.