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HomeMy WebLinkAbout047 - 04/17/2001 - AMENDING THE CITY'S CROSS-CONNECTION CONTROL RULES AND REGULATIONS ORDINANCE NO. 47, 2001 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AMENDING THE CITY'S CROSS-CONNECTION CONTROL RULES AND REGULATIONS WHEREAS, Section 26-189 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins authorizes and directs the City Manager to establish a program to control and eliminate cross-connection hazards with respect to the water distribution system of the City's water utility (the "Program"); and WHEREAS, Section 26-189 provides that the City Council may, upon recommendation of the City Manager,adopt by ordinance such supplemental rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement and administer the Program; and WHEREAS,in 1994,the City Council enacted Ordinance No. 131, 1994,adopting the City's Cross-Connection Control Rules and Regulations pursuant to City Code Section 26-189 (the "Regulations"); and WHEREAS,Section 3.5A of the Regulations currently requires that the backflow prevention devices of residential systems be tested annually; and WHEREAS,there are practical problems with requiring that the backflow prevention devices of such sprinkler systems be tested annually, and requiring that such backflow prevention devices be tested only once every three years is an adequate level of protection for the City's water distribution system; and WHEREAS,City staff has recommended that Section 3.5 of the Regulations be amended to eliminate the annual inspection requirement for the backflow prevention devices of residential lawn sprinkler systems and that the inspection requirement be changed to testing only once every three years. NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS as follows: Section 1. That Section 3.5A of the Cross-Connection Control Rules and Regulations is hereby amended to read as follows: 3.5 TESTING, INSPECTION AND ACCEPTANCE A. Except as provided in paragraph B. below, it shall be the duty of the consumer at any premises where backflow prevention assemblies are required by these Rules and Regulations to be installed,to have such assemblies tested and inspected annually by a certified technician to assure the assembly is functioning properly.Non-testable assemblies that are approved under these Rules and Regulations for use in single-family residences are exempt from this testing and inspection requirement. 1. Backflow prevention assemblies shall not be considered as accepted under these Rules and Regulations until a certified inspection and test is made on the installed assembly and the assembly has passed such inspection and testing. 2. The inspections and tests shall be at the expense of the consumer and shall be performed by a certified technician. Section 2. That a new paragraph B.is hereby added to Section 3.5 to read as follows and all subsequent paragraphs be relettered accordingly: B. Testable backflow assemblies installed for the lawn sprinkler systems of single-family residences,where there is no injection or mixing of fertilizer or any foreign substance,shall be exempt from the annual testing requirements, provided that: (1) these assemblies shall be tested upon installation, repair, replacement and at least once every three (3) years, or (2) if the degree of hazard posed by such an assembly to the Utility's potable water system is determined by the Director to be unacceptable, the Director may require a more frequent testing schedule for the assembly. Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 20th day of March, A.D. 2001, and to be presented for final passage on the 17th day of April, A.D. 2001. Mayor " A TEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 17th day of April, A.D. 2001. ,a > Mayor ' ATTEST: City Clerk