Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 445A - Water Controls
PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS
Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance
Section 445A.66785 - Treatment facilities: Design and construction
Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 445A.66785
Current through September 16, 2024
A treatment facility must:
1. Be designed in such a manner as to ensure:
(a) The reliable operation of the facility;
and
(b) That the public water
system can meet its current demands for water.
2. Except as otherwise specifically allowed by the Division or the appropriate district board of health:
(a) Ensure that at any time the facility is
the sole source of water for the public water system, the total capacity of the
system is sufficient to meet the maximum day demand, peak hour demand and fire
flow for the area of service of the system.
(b) Include at least two devices each for
pumping, mixing chemicals, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and
disinfection.
(c) Be constructed in
such a manner as to allow individual devices required pursuant to paragraph (b)
to be taken out of service without disrupting the operation of the
facility.
(d) Have drains and pumps
of such a size as to allow the removal of water within a reasonable
time.
(e) Have a standby source of
power available to allow the operation of essential functions when the regular
source of power fails.
(f) When
filtration is used, discharge filtered water after backwashing into a system
for waste.
(g) If the facility does
not have a person present on a 24-hour basis, include a device that
automatically shuts off the facility when the facility is not operating
properly.
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 2-20-97; A by Environmental Comm'n by R194-08, 10-27-2009
NRS 445A.860
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