Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 45, November 8, 2024
Section 64-15-8 - Plans, Surveys, Investigations, and Testing8.1. The water customer shall provide the public water system with all drawings, plans, specifications, and other data related to the backflow prevention assemblies so that the public water system can ensure the water customer's compliance with this rule.8.2. The public water system shall establish a cross-connection and backflow prevention program approved by the Commissioner.8.3. The water customer shall furnish information on water use practices for facilities within the water customer's premises, including plumbing diagrams, drawings, or plans, at the request of the public water system.8.4. The water customer on any premises that under this rule requires the installation of backflow prevention assemblies is responsible for getting the assemblies inspected and for the cost of the required inspections. 8.4.1. The water customer shall ensure that a person certified by the Commissioner as a certified backflow assembly tester inspects and tests the backflow prevention assemblies upon installation and at least every 12 months after that; and8.4.2. The certified backflow assembly tester shall provide records of all inspections and tests to the public water system within 15 days of the inspection or test.8.5. The public water system shall maintain records of all inspections, surveys, tests, and corrective actions taken for a period of at least two years and provide the information to the Commissioner upon request.8.6. The public water system shall request permission from a potential water customer to inspect the premises and dwellings formerly served by individual wells when the public water system believes unprotected cross-connections may exist. If the potential water customer does not allow the inspection, the refusal will be grounds not to supply water service.8.7. No provisions of this rule shall relieve the water customer of the responsibility for conducting surveys of water use practices on his or her premises to determine whether there are actual or potential unprotected cross-connections.8.8. Requirements of this rule shall be in accordance with all applicable guidelines contained in the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health Manual, EW-114, "Cross-Connection and Backflow Prevention Manual," 2002.