Ordinance No. 512-09
ORDINANCE NO. 512-09
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT
ADDING SECTION 3.3.6(d) AND AMENDING SECTIONS 3.3.4,
OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE REGARDING
CROSS CONNECTION CONTROL PROGRAM
BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Directors ofthe South Tahoe Public Utility
District, County of EI Dorado, State of California, as follows:
SECTION 1 - POLICY AND PURPOSE
The purpose of this Ordinance is to adopt certain changes to the Administrative
Code regarding the requirement for backflow prevention assemblies for certain hydronic
heating systems.
SECTION II - DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Ordinance, the terms used herein are defined as follows:
A. The District - The South Tahoe Public Utility District.
B.
The Board - The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility
District.
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C. Administrative Code - The compilation and codification of all ofthe
Administrative, Water, Sewer, Street Lighting and Groundwater
Management Plan Ordinances of the District, which establish the authority
and the principles for the decisions of the District, and provide the public
with guidelines applicable to District operations.
SECTION III - FINDINGS
The Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public Utility District, County ofEI
Dorado, State of California, make the following findings:
1. The District maintains a Cross Connection Control program, provided for
in the Administrative Code. The purpose of this program is to protect the District's
potable water supply from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating
within each water user's internal distribution system or private water system
contaminants or pollutants that could backflow into the District's public water supply
system.
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2. District staff have determined that certain hydronic heating systems contain
internal features that isolate the systems from a water user's potable water system,
eliminating the possibility of any flow of contaminants or pollutants into the District's
public water supply system. District staff have further determined that water users
operating such systems should not be required to install a backflow prevention assembly
on their service connections.
3. The proposed amendments are designed to reflect District staffs
determination as to hydronic heating systems and to reflect the enforcement measures
that the District may employ in ensuring compliance with the Cross Connection Control
program. .
4. The Board has determined that it is in the best interest ofthe health and
safety of District residents to adopt an Ordinance to add and to amend certain provisions
to the Administrative Code regarding cross connection control.
SECTION IV -ADD SECTION 3.3.6(d) TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Administrative Code Section 3.3.6(d) to be added as follows:
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"3.3.6(d) Hvdronic Heatinf! Svstems. The presence of a hydronic heating
system will not be considered a condition requiring the installation of a backflow
prevention assembly ifthe system is a "closed loop system" that is not connected to the
potable water system for the provision of make-up water. To be considered a closed loop
system, exempt from the backflow prevention assembly requirements, the hydronic
heating system must have a stand-alone reservoir for make-up water and a double-walled
heat exchanger. To be exempt from the backflow prevention assembly requirements, a
hydronic heating system must be approved by a District inspector."
SECTION V - AMEND SECTIONS 3.3.4 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Administrative Code Sections 3.3.4 to be amended as follows:
"3.3.4 Resoonsibilitv. The District shall be responsible for preventing the
backflow or back-siphon of contaminants or pollutants through the water service
connection. If, in the judgment of the General Manager or other authorized District
representative, an approved backflow prevention assembly is required for the protection
of the District's water system at the District's water service connection to any water
user's property, the General Manager, or other authorized District representative, shall
give notice in writing to such water user to install an approved backflow prevention
assembly at each service connection to the water user's property. The water user shall
install such approved backflow prevention assembly or assemblies at the water user's
expense within the time schedule required by the notice. Failure, refusal or inability on
the part of the water user to install such assembly or assemblies within the time schedule
required by the notice shall constitute cause for the imposition of administrative fines and
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penalties, or discontinuing water service to the property, pursuant to Section 6.5 and
Section 6.6, until such assembly or assemblies have been properly installed."
SECTION VII - SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of
this Ordinance and its implementing rules and regulations is for any reason held to be
unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this Ordinance or the Administrative Code. The Board of Directors declares
and determines that it would have passed section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase thereof of this Ordinance and its implementing rules and
regulations and the Administrative Code irrespective of the fact that anyone or more
sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases may be
determined to be unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION VIII - EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance amending the above referenced sections to the Administrative
Code shall take effective thirty days after its passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED the Board of Directors of the South Tahoe Public
Utility District at its duly held regular meeting on the 5th day of February, 2009, by the
following vote:
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AYES: Directors Mosbacher, Rise, Jones, Claudio, Schafer
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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