Pennsylvania Code
Title 4 - ADMINISTRATION
Part V - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Chapter 120 - LOCAL WATER RATIONING PLANS
Section 120.8 - Service interruptions
Universal Citation: 4 PA Code ยง 120.8
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 38, September 21, 2024
(a) A plan shall include provisions for the implementation of temporary service interruptions. This action would be necessary to achieve water use reductions to prevent a public water supply agency from depleting its water supply to the point that vital service demands, such as public health and safety, firefighting and health care facilities, cannot be met.
(b) The following governs the implementation of service interruptions:
(1) To effectuate
compliance with a plan, the public water supply agency is authorized and
required to plan and implement service interruptions to all or part of its
water supply system, as the public water supply agency deems appropriate, when
one or more of the following conditions are determined by the public water
supply agency to exist as to its water supply system:
(i) The specified reduction in systemwide
water usage has not been achieved.
(ii) The specified reduction in systemwide
water usage has been achieved, but has failed to have a significant impact in
extending limited water supplies.
(iii) Service interruption are necessary to
further extend limited or dwindling water supplies.
(2) If the public water supply agency
determines that service interruptions are necessary, the public water supply
agency shall notify its water customers through the public media, such as
newspapers, radio, telephone and television, serving the water customers in its
service area at least 1 day prior to the service interruptions, that a planned
service interruption is to be imposed. In addition, the public water supply
agency shall notify the local coordinator of emergency management; PEMA; the
Commonwealth Drought Coordinator; the regional office of the Department of
Environmental Protection; and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission,
Bureau of Fixed Utility Services, if the public water supply agency is subject
to the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. The notice
shall:
(i) State the days when the planned
service interruptions will occur.
(ii) State the time when the planned service
interruptions will commence and the time the interruptions will
cease.
(iii) State whether the
planned service interruptions are to be imposed on the entire system or a part
thereof. If only part of the system will experience planned service
interruptions, identify the geographical boundaries within which the planned
service interruptions will occur.
(iv) Advise the customers within the area
affected by planned service interruptions how to treat water received from the
system for human consumption during the period of planned service interruptions
and for additional time as necessary until full pressure is restored to the
system.
(3) If the
public water supply agency imposes planned service interruptions as authorized
and required by a plan, it shall provide for the continued delivery of water to
health care facilities within the service area affected by the interruptions,
by means of adequate, alternative delivery measures that may be
necessary.
(4) If the public water
supply agency implements temporary service interruptions, it shall provide, by
any means possible, for the continued delivery of the water, as may be
necessary, for the proper operation of sewage collection, treatment and
disposal systems and facilities.
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