Legal Documents of Dandridge

This chapter sets forth uniform requirements for the protection of the public water system for the Dandridge Water Management Facility from possible contamination, and enable the Dandridge Water Management Facility to comply with all applicable local, state and federal laws, regulations, standards or requirements, including the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996, Tennessee Code Annotated, §§ 68-221-701 to 68-221-720 and the Rules and Tennessee Compilation of Rules and Regulations, ch. 0400-45-01, titled "Public Water Systems." The objectives of this chapter are to:

1. To protect the public potable water system of Dandridge Water Management Facility from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within the customer's internal distribution system, such contaminants or pollutants that could backflow or backsiphon into the public water system;
2. To promote the elimination or control of existing cross-connections, actual or potential, between the customer's in-house potable water system and non-potable water systems, plumbing fixtures, and industrial piping systems;
3. To provide for the maintenance of a continuing program of cross-connection control that will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of all potable water systems.
4. To adopt and approve a working plan for the utility to carry out the requirements of this policy. (Ord. #09/10-19, July 2010, modified)