Illinois Administrative Code
Title 35 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Part 604 - DESIGN, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE CRITERIA
Subpart O - CROSS CONNECTIONS
Section 604.1505 - Cross Connection Control Program
Universal Citation: 35 IL Admin Code ยง 604.1505
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) All community water supplies, including those that meet the criteria in Section 17(b) of the Act and any exempt community water supply as defined in Section 9.1 of the Public Water Supply Operations Act [ 415 ILCS 45 ], must have a cross connection control program to educate and inform water supply consumers regarding prevention of the entry of contaminants into the distribution system.
b) The cross connection control program must include the following:
1) For any new service connection, the
community water supply must evaluate the risk of cross connection whereby an
unsafe substance may enter a community water supply.
2) A community water supply must conduct a
cross connection control survey of the distribution system at least every three
years. The survey must be conducted by the owner, official custodian or an
authorized delegate. The survey must evaluate the risk of an unsafe substance
entering a community water supply through each service connection to the
distribution system of the community water supply. This survey is not intended
to include an actual visual inspection of piping or plumbing systems.
3) From each completed survey, the community
water supply must develop an inventory of the following:
A) all customers surveyed;
B) the number of customers who responded to
the survey;
C) identification of
service connections not required to have a backflow preventer installed under
77 Ill. Adm. Code
890.1130;
D) identification of service connections
required to have a backflow preventer installed under 77 Ill. Adm. Code
890.1130;
E) backflow preventers
installed;
F) service connections
that require further risk evaluation; and
G) corrective actions to mitigate cross
connections.
4) An
ordinance, tariff, or required condition for service, whichever is applicable,
that meets the Illinois Plumbing Code (77 Ill. Adm. Code 890), must be adopted
and enforced.
5) The community
water supply must maintain records of all backflow preventers that require
annual testing under 77 Ill. Adm. Code 890 and identified in subsections (b)(2)
and (b)(3).
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