§ 41-18. Purposes.

The purposes of this article are as follows:

(a)

To protect the public potable water supply of Irving from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within the consumer's internal distribution system(s) or the consumer's private water system(s) contaminants or pollutants which could backflow into the public water systems.

(b)

To promote the elimination or control of existing cross-connections, actual or potential, between the consumer's in-plant potable water system(s) and non-potable water system(s), plumbing fixtures, and industrial piping systems.

(c)

To provide for the maintenance of a continuing program of cross-connection control which will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of the public potable water supply of the city.

(Ord. No. 8140, § 1, 3-20-03)