New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 10 - SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT
Subchapter 10 - PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS AND CROSS CONNECTION CONTROL BY CONTAINMENT
Section 7:10-10.1 - Purpose and scope

(a) This subchapter establishes the permit, design, and testing requirements of a backflow prevention device at facilities with physical connections between public community water systems and facilities which have sources of water which may be contaminated or of questionable or unknown quality over which the supplier of water has little or no control for the purpose of protecting the public community water system from backflow from such waters. This subchapter also establishes a framework for a public community water system to implement a cross-connection control program that would require the installation of a containment backflow prevention device at facilities with cross-connection hazards as outlined in 7:10-10.9.

(b) The requirements of this subchapter apply in conjunction with the requirements of the Plumbing Subcode of the New Jersey State Uniform Construction Code, 5:23-3.15, for the prevention of illegal plumbing cross-connections, and with any other state or local requirements for the practice or procedure known as "cross-connection control by containment" whereby a backflow prevention device may be required to protect a public community water system from contamination as a result of plumbing cross-connections, or any other cross-connections.