Backflow Test Reporting

NOTICE: Please email testing to: backflow@murray.utah.gov


Water in Glass

Backflow Test Reporting

Under the provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, the Federal Government has established, through the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), national standards of safe drinking water.  The states are responsible for the enforcement of these standards as well as the supervision of public water supply systems and the sources of drinking water.  Here at Murray City, we are responsible for compliance to the provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act, to include a warranty that water quality provided by us in conformance with the EPA standards at the source and is delivered to the customer without the quality being compromised as a result of its delivery through the distribution system.  Controlling cross-connections is possible, but only through thorough knowledge and vigilance.  

Federal

Federal Public Law 104-182, (the Safe Drinking Water Act and Amendments of 1996), identifies the responsibility of each public drinking water system to protect the quality of the water supplied to the consumers from any sources of contamination. As stated in the US EPA Cross Connection Control Manual, the water purveyor must provide a water that complies with all EPA standards at the source and deliver it to the customer without the quality being compromised as a result of its delivery through the distribution system. Utah Code, Section 19-4-112 (2d) states, "there shall be no cross connection between the potable (drinking water system) and nonportable (auxiliary water supply) systems.

State of Utah

Utah Public Drinking Water Rules (UPDWR), Section R309-105-12 place the following requirements on public drinking water suppliers:

"The water supplier shall not allow a connection to his system which may jeopardize its quality and integrity”. In addition, this rule identifies the need for a viable cross connection control program which includes an inventory of testable assemblies, testing and service records for the assemblies, testing frequency requirements and adherence to all requirements of Plumbing Code as adopted by the State and its amendments.

Occupation Safety and Health (OSHA) 

Occupation Safety and Health (OSHA) Rules and Regulations Part 1910-Subpart J, Section 1910.41, require that each employer furnish his or her employee(s) with an adequate safe drinking water supply. This infers the need to protect against any backflow which would create an unsafe drinking water supply within the consumer’s distribution system as well as the public drinking water system. 

Murray City

Murray City Code 13.24.010: Cross Connections; General Policy provides for the administration of a continuing program of backflow prevention which will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of all drinking water systems.

The customer's system shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times to authorized representatives of the water purveyor to determine whether cross connections or other structural or sanitary hazards, including violation of this chapter, exist and to audit the results of the required survey (subsection 13.24.030A2 of this chapter).

Whenever the water department deems a service connection's water usage contributes a sufficient hazard to the water supply, an approved backflow prevention assembly shall be installed on the service line of the identified consumer's water system, at or near the property line, or immediately inside the building being served; but, in all cases, before the first branch line leading off the service line.

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