[Added 1-21-1991 by Ord. No. 5560]
No person, company, corporation, or institution
shall establish or permit to be established or maintain or permit
to be maintained any connection whereby a private, auxiliary, or emergency
water supply other than the regular public water supply of the City
may enter the supply and distributing system of the City unless specifically
approved by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the
governing body.
Approved devices to protect against backflow
or backsiphonage shall be installed at all fixtures and equipment
where backflow and/or backsiphonage may occur and where there is a
hazard to the public water supply in that polluted water or other
contaminating materials may enter into the public water supply. Approved
backflow preventer valves and systems shall be installed as determined
by the Director of Utilities.
The City Director of Utilities or other designee
of the governing body shall have the right-of-way of entry into any
building or premises in the City as frequently as necessary in his
or her judgment in order to ensure that plumbing has been installed
in accordance with the laws of the City so as to prevent the possibility
of contamination of the water supply of the City.
Pursuant to the City's constitutional home rule
authority and K.S.A. § 65-163a, the City by its Director
of Utilities may refuse to deliver water through pipes and mains to
any premises where a condition exists which might lead to the contamination
of the public water supply system and it may continue to refuse the
delivery of water to the premises until that condition is remedied.
In addition, the City Director of Utilities may terminate water service
to any property where the cross-connection, backsiphonage, or back
pressure conditions creates, in the judgment of the Director, an emergency
danger of contamination to the public water supply.
