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Commission Memorandum
REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Debbie Arkell, Director of Public Services
Chris Kukulski, City Manager
SUBJECT: Ordinance No. 1750 Revising Section 13.12.322 Protective Devices, and
Adding Chapter 13.14, Control of Backflow and Cross-Connections of the
Bozeman Municipal Code
MEETING DATE: February 23, 2009 FYI Agenda
BACKGROUND: In FY08 the Commission approved a position in the water operations
division to hire a backflow protection specialist. Part of that person’s duties was to research and
propose a backflow protection ordinance for the city that expands on Section 13.12.322 of the
BMC that requires backflow protection to be installed as a condition of continued water service.
On February 20, 2008, the City’s Design Standards and Specifications Policy was amended to
require backflow protection to be installed on each fire and domestic service line as required by
the Water Superintendant.
The intent of Ordinance No. 1750 is to protect the City’s water supply system from the
possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within the customer’s internal distribution
systems or the customer’s private water systems contaminants or pollutants which could
backflow into the city water system. It will also promote the elimination or control of existing
cross-connections between potable water systems and non-potable water systems, plumbing
fixtures and industrial pipe systems and provide for the maintenance of a continuing Program of
Cross-Connection Control which will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or
pollution of all potable water systems.
PUBLIC HEARING: The public hearing for this Ordinance is scheduled for March 2. Water
Superintendant John Alston will present the details of the Ordinance at that time. The Ordinance
is provided to the Commission now to ensure ample time review the information.
FISCAL EFFECTS: None identified
Attachments: Ordinance No. 1750
Report compiled on February 11, 2009
Cc: John Alston, Water/Sewer Superintendant
Dewey Sorensen, Backflow Protection Specialist
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ORDINANCE NO. 1750
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
BOZEMAN, MONTANA PROVIDING THAT THE BOZEMAN
MUNICIPAL CODE BE AMENDED BY REVISING SECTION
13.12.322 PROTECTIVE DEVICES, AND ADDING CHAPTER 13.14,
CONTROL OF BACKFLOW AND CROSS-CONNECTIONS OF THE
BOZEMAN MUNICIPAL CODE
WHEREAS, on June 21, 1999, Ordinance No. 1497 was adopted to add Section
13.12.322 Protective Devices to the Water Service Utility Operations chapter of the Bozeman
Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, said Section 13.12.322 requires backflow protection to be installed as a
condition of continued water service when deemed necessary by the Water Superintendent; and
WHEREAS, on April 5, 2004, Ordinance No. 1611 adopted the City of Bozeman
Design Standards and Specifications Policy, with said policy being most recently amended on
February 20, 2008; and
WHEREAS, Section V.6.e of said City of Bozeman Design Standards and
Specifications Policy requires backflow protection to be installed on each fire and domestic
service line, as required by the Water Superintendent; and
WHEREAS, it is the intent and desire of the City of Bozeman to protect the public
potable water supply of the City of Bozeman from the possibility of contamination or pollution
by isolating within the customer’s internal distribution systems or the customer’s private water
systems such contaminants or pollutants which could backflow into the public water systems;
promote the elimination or control of existing cross-connections, actual or potential, between the
customer’s in-plant potable water systems and non-potable water systems, plumbing fixtures and
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industrial piping systems; and provide for the maintenance of a continuing Program of Cross-
Connection Control which will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or
pollution of all potable water systems; and
WHEREAS, adopting backflow and cross-connection regulations will accomplish this
intent.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Commission of the City of
Bozeman, Montana that
Section 1
Section 13.12.322 of the Bozeman Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as
follows:
13.12.322 Protective Device
When it is deemed by the Water/Sewer Superintendent that backflow protection is such
protective devices are necessary to protect another customer’s facilities and/or the municipal
water supply system, the Water/Sewer Superintendent may require a property owner to install, as
a condition of continued or new water service and at the property owner’s expense, an approved
backflow prevention assembly/device as defined and outlined in Chapter 13.14 of the Bozeman
Municipal Code. expansion tank, pressure reducing valve, backflow prevention device, pressure
relief valve, or any other similar type of device on property owner’s water service line at a
location designated by the City’s Water/Sewer Superintendent. Property owners will shall be
responsible for keeping these assemblies/devices in good repair and effective operating condition
at all times, and for periodic testing as may be required. Failure to keep these assemblies/devices
in good working condition may be cause to discontinue water service to the property involved.
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Section 2
Section 13.14 of the Bozeman Municipal Code is hereby added to read as follows:
13.14.010 Cross-Connection Control-General Policy
It is the intent and desire of the City of Bozeman:
A. To protect the municipal potable water supply of the City of Bozeman from the
possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within the customer’s internal
distribution system or the customer’s private water system such contaminants or
pollutants which could backflow into the public water systems; and,
B. To promote the elimination or control of existing cross-connections, actual or
potential, between the customer’s in-plant potable water systems and non-potable
water systems, plumbing fixtures and industrial piping systems; and
C. To provide for the maintenance of a continuing Program of Cross-Connection Control
which will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of all
potable water systems; and
D. To ensure all new connections to the municipal potable water supply of the City of
Bozeman be equipped with a backflow prevention assembly/device.
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13.14.020 Definitions
A. “Approved.”
1. “Approved” as herein used in reference to a water supply shall mean a water
supply that has been approved by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.
2. “Approved” as herein used in reference to an air gap, a pressure vacuum breaker,
a spill-resistant pressure vacuum breaker, a double check valve assembly, a reduced
pressure principle backflow prevention assembly or other backflow prevention
assemblies, methods or devices shall mean an approval by the Water Superintendent
based on independent third party evaluation.
B. “Auxiliary Water Supply” means any water supply on or available to the premises
other than the municipal potable water supply. These auxiliary waters may include,
but are not limited to, water from another purveyor’s public potable water supply or
any natural source such as a well, spring, river, stream, etc., or used waters or
industrial fluids. These waters may be contaminated or polluted or they may be
objectionable and constitute an unacceptable water source over which the water
purveyor does not have sanitary control.
C. “Backflow” means the undesirable reversal of flow of water or mixtures of water and
other liquids, gases or other substances into the distribution pipes of the municipal
potable supply of water from any source or sources. See terms Backpressure (F) and
Backsiphonage (G).
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D. “Backflow Prevention Assembly/Device” means an assembly/device that has been
manufactured in full conformance with the standards established by the American
Water Works Association entitled:
ANSI/AWWA C510-89 Standard for Double Check Valve Backflow Prevention
Assemblies;
ANSI/AWWA C511-89 Standard for Reduced Pressure Principle Backflow
Prevention Assemblies;
Said assembly/device shall have met completely the laboratory and field performance
specifications of the Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic
Research of the University of Southern California (USC FCCCHR) established in:
Specifications of Backflow Prevention Assemblies – Section 10 of the most
current edition of the Manual of Cross-Connection Control.
Said AWWA and USC FCCCHR standards and specifications have been adopted by
the Water Superintendent. Final approval shall be evidenced by a “Certificate of
Compliance” for the said AWWA standards; or “Certificate of Approval” for the said
USC FCCCHR Specifications; issued by an approved testing laboratory.
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The following testing laboratory has been qualified by the Water Superintendent to
test and approve backflow prevention assemblies:
Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research
University of Southern California
KAP-200 University Park MC-2531
Los Angeles, California 90089-2531
Testing laboratories other than the laboratory listed above will be added to an
approved list as they are qualified by the Water Superintendent.
Any backflow prevention assembly/device required herein shall be a make, model,
and size approved by the Water Superintendent. Backflow prevention
assemblies/devices which may be subjected to backpressure or backsiphonage that
have been fully tested and have been granted a Certificate of Approval by said
qualified laboratory and are listed on the laboratory’s current list of approved
backflow prevention assemblies/devices may be used without further test or
qualification.
1. “Air gap” means a physical separation between the free flowing discharge end
of a potable water supply pipeline and an open or non-pressure receiving
vessel. An “approved air gap” shall be at least double the diameter of the
supply pipe measured vertically above the overflow rim of the vessel – in no
case less than 1 inch (2.54 cm).
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2. “Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker Backsiphonage Prevention Assembly” (also
known as the non-pressure type vacuum breaker) means an assembly
containing an air inlet valve, a check seat and an air inlet port(s). The flow of
water into the body causes the air inlet to close the air inlet port(s). When the
flow of water stops, the air inlet falls and forms a check valve against
backsiphonage. At the same time, it opens the air inlet port(s) allowing air to
enter and satisfy the vacuum. A shut off valve immediately upstream may be
an integral part of the assembly, but the assembly shall not be subjected to
operating pressure for more than 12 hours in any 24 hour period. An
atmospheric vacuum breaker is designed to protect against a non-health
hazard (i.e., pollutant) or a health hazard (i.e., contaminant) under a
backsiphonage condition only.
3. “Dual Check Backflow Prevention Device” means a device (preventer) that
consists of two (2) independently acting check valves, internally force loaded
to a normally closed position, designed and constructed to operate under
intermittent or continuous pressure conditions. The purpose of the dual check
backflow preventer is to keep polluted water from flowing back into the
potable system when pressure is temporarily higher in the polluted part of the
system than in the potable water piping. This device is intended to protect the
potable water supply from low hazard pollution at residential service lines and
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individual outlets. These devices are intended for cold water service under
continuous or intermittent pressure conditions.
4. “Double Check Valve Backflow Prevention Assembly” means an assembly
composed of two independently acting, approved check valves, including
tightly closing resilient seated shutoff valves attached at each end of the
assembly and fitted with properly located resilient seated test cocks. This
assembly shall only be used to protect against a non-health hazard (i.e.,
pollutant).
5. “Pressure Vacuum Breaker” means an assembly containing an independently
operating internally loaded air inlet valve located on the discharge side of the
check valve. The assembly shall be equipped with properly located resilient
seated test cocks and tightly closing resilient seated shutoff valves attached at
each end of the assembly. This assembly is designed to protect against a non-
health hazard (i.e. pollutant) or a health hazard (i.e., contaminant) under a
backsiphonage condition only.
6. “Reduced Pressure Principle Backflow Prevention Assembly” means an
assembly containing two independently acting approved check valves together
with a hydraulically operating, mechanically independent pressure differential
relief valve located between the check valves and at the same time below the
first check valve. The unit shall include properly located resilient seated test
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cocks and tightly closing resilient seated shutoff valves at each end of the
assembly. This assembly is designed to protect against a non-health hazard
(i.e., pollutant) or a health hazard (i.e., contaminant).
7. “Spill-Resistant Pressure Vacuum Breaker” means an assembly containing an
independently operating internally loaded check valve and an independently
operating loaded air inlet located on the discharge side of the check valve. The
assembly shall be equipped with a properly located resilient seated test cock, a
properly located bleed/vent valve, and tightly closing resilient seated shutoff
valves attached at each end of the assembly. This assembly is designed to
protect against a non-health hazard (i.e., pollutant) or a health hazard (i.e.,
contaminant) under a backsiphonage condition only.
E. “Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester-Certified” means a person who has proven
their ability to test backflow prevention assemblies/devices to the satisfaction of the
Water Superintendent by providing a copy of their current tester’s certification from
the American Backflow Prevention Association. Each person who is certified to make
field tests and make reports on backflow prevention assemblies/devices shall be
conversant with applicable laws, rules and regulations and have had experience in
plumbing or pipe fitting or have other equivalent qualifications in the opinion of the
Water Superintendent. A backflow prevention assembly tester must also have a valid
City of Bozeman business license and proof of current test equipment calibration.
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F. “Backpressure” means any elevation of pressure in the downstream piping system (by
pump, elevation of piping, or steam and/or air pressure) above the supply pressure at
the point of consideration which would cause, or tend to cause, a reversal of the
normal direction of flow.
G. “Backsiphonage” means a form of backflow due to a reduction in system pressure
which causes a sub-atmospheric pressure to exist at a site in the water system.
H. “Contamination” means an impairment of the quality of the water which creates an
actual hazard to the public health through poisoning or through the spread of disease
by sewage, industrial fluids, waste, etc.
I. “Cross-Connection” means any unprotected actual or potential connection or
structural arrangement between a public or a customer’s potable water system and
any other source or system through which it is possible to introduce into any part of
the potable system any used water, industrial fluid, gas, or substance other than the
intended potable water with which the system is supplied. Bypass arrangements,
jumper connections, removable sections, swivel or change-over devices and other
temporary or permanent devices through which or because of which backflow can or
may occur are considered to be cross-connections.
1. “Direct Cross-Connection” means a cross-connection which is subject to both
backsiphonage and backpressure.
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2. “Indirect Cross-Connection” means a cross-connection which is subject to
backsiphonage only.
J. “Cross-Connection Control by Containment” means the appropriate type or method
of backflow protection at the service connection, commensurate with the degree of
hazard of the customer’s potable water system.
K. “Cross-Connections – Controlled” means a connection between a potable water
system and a non-potable water system with an approved backflow prevention
assembly properly installed and maintained so that it will continuously afford the
protection commensurate with the degree of hazard.
L. “Customer” means any individual, partnership, association, firm, public or private
corporation, governmental agency, or any other entity receiving water service from
the municipal system.
M. “Degree of Hazard” means either a pollutional (non-health/low) or contamination
(Health/High) hazard and is derived from the evaluation of conditions within a
system.
1. “Health Hazard” means an actual or potential threat of contamination of a
physical or toxic nature to the public potable water system or the customer’s
potable water system that would be a danger to health.
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2. “Plumbing Hazard” means an internal or plumbing type cross-connection in a
customer’s potable water system that may be either a pollutional or a
contamination type hazard. This includes but is not limited to cross-
connections to toilets, sinks, lavatories, wash trays and lawn sprinkling
systems. Plumbing type cross-connections can be located in many types of
structures including homes, apartment houses, hotels and commercial or
industrial establishments. Such a connection, if permitted to exist, must be
properly protected by an appropriate type of backflow prevention assembly/
device.
3. “Pollutional Hazard” means an actual or potential threat to the physical
properties of the water system or the potability of the public or customer’s
potable water system but which would not constitute a health system hazard,
as defined. The maximum degree or intensity of the pollution to which the
potable water system could be degraded under this definition would cause a
nuisance or be aesthetically objectionable or could cause minor damage to the
system or its appurtenances.
4. “System Hazard” means an actual or potential threat of severe danger to the
physical properties of the customer’s potable water system or of a pollution or
contamination which would have a protracted effect on the quality of the
potable water in the municipal system.
N. “Industrial Fluids” shall mean any fluid or solution which may be chemically,
biologically or otherwise contaminated or polluted in a form or concentration which
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would constitute a health, system, pollutional or plumbing hazard if introduced into
an approved water supply. This may include, but not be limited to: polluted or
contaminated used waters; all types of process waters and “used waters” originating
from the public potable water system which may deteriorate in sanitary quality;
chemicals in fluid form; plating acids and alkalis; circulated cooling waters connected
to an open cooling tower and/or cooling waters that are chemically or biologically
treated or stabilized with toxic substances; contaminated natural waters such as from
wells, springs, streams, rivers, irrigation canals or systems, etc.; oils, gases, glycerin,
paraffin, caustic and acid solutions and other liquid and gaseous fluids used
industrially, for other processes, or for fire-fighting purposes.
O. “Pollution” means an impairment of the quality of the water to a degree which does
not create a hazard to the public health but which does adversely and unreasonably
affect the aesthetic qualities of such waters for domestic use.
P. “Water – Non-potable” means a water supply which has not been approved for
human consumption by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.
Q. “Water – Potable” means any public potable water supply which has been
investigated and approved by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.
The system must be operating under a valid health permit. In determining what
constitutes an approved water supply, the health agency has final judgment as to its
safety and potability.
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R. “Water – Service Connection” means the terminal end of a service connection from
the municipal potable water system, (i.e., where the water purveyor may lose
jurisdiction and sanitary control of the water at its point of delivery to the customer’s
water system). If a water meter is installed at the end of the service connection, then
the service connection shall mean the downstream end of the water meter.
S. “Water – Used” means any water supplied by the municipal water system to a
customer’s water system after it has passed through the service connection and is no
longer under the control of the municipal water system.
T. “Water Superintendent” means the Water Superintendent, or designee, of the Water
Operations Division of the City of Bozeman, Montana.
13.14.030 Enforcement.
The Water Superintendent shall be responsible for the protection of the City’s municipal
potable water distribution system from contamination or pollution due to the backflow of
contaminants or pollutants through the water service connection. If, in the judgment of the Water
Superintendent, an approved backflow prevention assembly/device is required at the customer’s
water service connection or within the customer’s private water system for the safety of the
municipal potable water system, the Water Superintendent shall give notice in writing to the
customer to install an approved backflow prevention assembly/device at a specific location on
his/her premises. The customer shall install such an approved backflow prevention
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assembly/device at the customer’s own expense within a reasonable time-frame established by
the Water Superintendent.
A. Failure, refusal or inability on the part of the customer to install, have tested (as
applicable), and maintain said assembly/device shall constitute grounds for
discontinuing water service to the premises until such requirements have been
satisfactorily met. The Water Superintendent has the right to disconnect water service
following ten day’s written notice to the customer. In the event a customer’s water
service is disconnected for such failure to comply, the customer shall pay for the cost of
disconnecting the water and reconnecting the water, the cost of which is established by
Commission Resolution. The water service shall not be reinstated until written proof is
provided that the required assembly/device has been installed, repaired, and/or tested,
and until all disconnect and/or subsequent reconnect costs are paid.
13.14.040 Water System Requirements
A. The water system shall be considered as made up of two parts; the Municipal Potable
Water System; and the Customer’s System.
B. The Municipal Potable Water System shall consist of the source facilities and the
distribution system; and shall include all those facilities of the water system under the
complete control of the City of Bozeman, up to the point where the customer’s system
begins.
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C. The source shall include all components of the facilities utilized in the production,
treatment, storage, and delivery of water to the distribution system.
D. The distribution system shall include the network of conduits used for the delivery of
water from the source to the customer’s system.
E. The customer’s system shall include those parts of the facilities beyond the termination of
the municipal potable water distribution system which are utilized in conveying potable
water to points of use.
13.14.050 Backflow Prevention Assembly/Device Required.
No water service connection to any premise shall be installed or maintained by the City
of Bozeman Water Division unless the water supply is protected as required by the State of
Montana Department of Environmental Quality laws and regulations, the current edition of the
Uniform Plumbing Code, and this Backflow and Cross-Connection Control Ordinance. Service
of water to any premise shall be discontinued by the City of Bozeman Water Division if a
backflow prevention assembly/device required by this Ordinance is not installed, tested and
maintained, or if it is found that a backflow prevention assembly/device has been removed, by-
passed, or if an unprotected cross-connection exists on the premises. Service will not be restored
until such conditions or defects are corrected.
13.14.060 Access to Premises Required.
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The customer’s system shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times to authorized
representatives of the City of Bozeman Water Department to determine whether unprotected
cross-connections or other structural or sanitary hazards, including violations of these
regulations, exist. Said inspections shall be conducted at the discretion of the Water
Superintendent. When such a condition becomes known, the Water Superintendent may at
his/her discretion discontinue service to the premises until the customer has corrected the
conditions in conformance with the City of Bozeman statutes relating to plumbing and water
supplies and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
13.14.070 Backflow Prevention Assembly/Device Location.
An approved backflow prevention assembly/device shall be installed on each service line
to a customer’s water system at or near the property line or immediately inside the building being
served, but in all cases, before the first branch line leading off the service line wherever the
following conditions exist:
A. In the case of premises having an auxiliary water supply which is not or may not be
of safe bacteriological or chemical quality and which is not acceptable as an
additional source by the Water Superintendent, the municipal potable water system
shall be protected against backflow from the premises by installing an approved
backflow prevention assembly/device in the service line commensurate with the
degree of hazard.
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B. In the case of premises on which any industrial fluids or any other objectionable
substance is handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the
municipal potable water system, the municipal potable water system shall be
protected against backflow from the premises by installing an approved backflow
prevention assembly/device in the service line commensurate with the degree of
hazard. This shall include the handling of process waters and waters originating from
any potable water system which has been subject to deterioration in quality.
C. In the case of premises having: (1) internal cross-connections that cannot be
permanently corrected or protected against; or (2) intricate plumbing and piping
arrangements or where entry to all portions of the premises is not readily accessible
for inspection purposes making it impracticable or impossible to ascertain whether or
not dangerous cross-connection exists the municipal potable water system shall be
protected against backflow from the premises by installing an approved backflow
prevention assembly/device in the service line.
13.14.080 Type of Protective Backflow Assembly/Device.
The type of protective backflow assembly/device required under Section 13.14.070.A,
13.14.070.B, and/or 13.14.070.C shall depend upon the degree of hazard which exists as follows:
A. All existing and new, one or two family residential premises shall have installed at
the point of delivery a minimum of a dual check valve that has been approved by a
third party laboratory of national standing and as determined by the Water
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Superintendent. A greater level of protection may be required after a survey of the
internal water supply system has identified the degree of hazard.
B. In the case of any premise where there is an auxiliary water supply and it is not
subject to any of the following rules, the municipal potable water system shall be
protected by an approved air gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow
prevention assembly/device.
C. In the case of any premise where there is water or substance that would be
objectionable but not hazardous to health if introduced into the municipal potable
water system, the municipal potable water system shall be protected by an approved
double check valve backflow prevention assembly/device.
D. In the case of any premise where there is any material dangerous to health which is
handled in such a fashion as to create an actual or potential hazard to the municipal
potable water system, the municipal potable water system shall be protected by an
approved air gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention
assembly/device. Examples of premises where these conditions will exist include
sewage treatment plants, sewage pumping stations, chemical manufacturing plants,
hospitals, mortuaries, and plating plants.
E. In the case of any premise where there are unprotected cross-connections, either
actual or potential, the municipal potable water system shall be protected by an
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approved air gap or an approved reduced pressure principle backflow prevention
assembly/device at the service connection.
F. In the case of any premise where, because of security requirements or other
prohibitions or restrictions, it is impossible or impractical to make a complete in-plant
cross-connection survey, the municipal potable water system shall be protected
against backflow from the premises by either an approved air gap or an approved
reduced pressure principle backflow prevention assembly/device on each service to
the premise.
G. In the case of any premise where, in the opinion of the Water Superintendent, an
undue health threat is posed because of the presence of extremely toxic substances,
the Water Superintendent may require an air gap at the service connection to protect
the municipal potable water system. This requirement will be at the discretion of the
Water Superintendent and is dependent on the degree of hazard.
13.14.090 Testing Required.
It shall be the duty of the customer at any premise where testable backflow prevention
assemblies/devices are installed to have a field test performed by a certified backflow prevention
assembly tester as defined herein, upon the installation, repair, and at least once per year
thereafter. In those instances where the Water Superintendent deems the hazard to be great
enough he may require field tests at more frequent intervals. These tests shall be at the expense
of the customer. It shall be the duty of the Water Superintendent to ensure that these tests are
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made in a timely manner. The customer shall notify the Water Superintendent in advance when
the tests are to be undertaken so an official representative may witness the field tests if so
desired. Assemblies/devices found to be in need of repair shall be immediately repaired,
overhauled, or replaced at the expense of the customer whenever said assemblies/devices are
found to be defective. Failure to act in accordance of this section may result in the
discontinuance of water service pursuant to Section 13.14.030. Records of such tests, repairs, and
overhaul shall be maintained by the customer, and copies shall be made available to the Water
Superintendent within 10 days of completion.
13.14.100 Replacement of Existing Devices.
All presently installed backflow prevention assemblies/devices which do not meet the
requirements of this section but were approved devices for the purposes described herein at the
time of installation and which have been properly maintained, shall, except for the testing and
maintenance requirements under Section13.14.090, be excluded from the requirements of these
rules so long as the Water Superintendent is assured that they will satisfactorily protect the
municipal potable water system. Whenever the existing device is moved from the present
location or requires more than minimum maintenance or when the Water Superintendent finds
that the maintenance constitutes a hazard to health, the unit shall be replaced by an approved
backflow prevention assembly/device meeting the requirements of this section.
13.14.110 Records.
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Records of all backflow prevention assemblies/devices shall be maintained with regard to
owner, location installed, make, model, size and type. Testing information including certified
tester, gage used, date and any repairs of all backflow prevention assemblies/devices shall also
be recorded.
13.14.120 Enforcement.
The Water Superintendent is authorized to make all necessary and reasonable policies
with respect to the enforcement of this Ordinance. All such policies shall be consistent with the
provisions of the Bozeman Municipal Code.
13.14.130 Violation of Chapter Provisions – Disconnection to Service Required When.
For violation of any of these regulations, the City of Bozeman has the right to disconnect
water service following ten day’s written notice to the customer. After service has been
discontinued, the same shall not be reinstated until all required corrections are made. Costs of all
disconnects and/or subsequent reconnects shall be borne by the customer.
Repealer.
All City ordinances and parts thereof in conflict herewith are hereby superseded by this
ordinance.
Section 3
Savings Provision.
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This ordinance does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were
incurred or proceedings that were begun before the effective date of this ordinance.
Section 4
Severability.
If any provision of this ordinance is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of the
ordinance and applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected
thereby.
Section 5
Effective Date.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after second reading and final
adoption.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bozeman, Montana, on first reading
at a regular session thereof held on the _____ day of______________, 2009.
_____________________________
KAAREN JACOBSON
Mayor
ATTEST:
_____________________________________
STACY ULMEN
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City Clerk
PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED by the City Commission of the City of
Bozeman, Montana, on second reading at a regular session thereof held on the ______ day of
______________ 2009.
_____________________________
KAAREN JACOBSON
Mayor
ATTEST:
_____________________________________
STACY ULMEN
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_____________________________
City Attorney
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