Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 445A - Water Controls
PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS
Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance
Section 445A.67095 - Storage structures: Drainage; protection from pollution and contamination
Current through September 16, 2024
1. Storage tanks must have sloped, watertight roofs and sidewalls, with no openings except properly constructed vents, manholes, overflows, drains, control ports and piping. The roofs must drain well.
2. The bottom of a ground-level tank, or of any reservoir or standpipe used for distribution storage, must be protected from floods at the maximum flood level. The area surrounding such a structure must be graded in a manner that will prevent standing surface water.
3. Subsurface storage structures must be lined and covered, and located:
The land adjacent to such a structure must be graded in such a manner as to route surface water away from the structure.
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 2-20-97
NRS 445A.860
