N.J. Admin. Code § 7:1H-3.6

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 7:1H-3.6 - Performance standards for conducting a potable water supply control program

(a) Examine plans, issue certificates and permits and assure that water samples from newly constructed or altered non-public and public non-community potable water supply systems conform to requirements not less stringent than those of the current Standards for the Construction of Public Non-Community and Non-Public Water Systems, N.J.A.C. 7:10-12.

(b) Advise the department of new non-community public water systems that are approved.

(c) Inspect non-public water supply systems, collect samples and provide for laboratory analysis of water when there is reason to believe that the supply may be contaminated or open to contamination.

(d) Encourage the collection of bacteriological samples at least four times per year from non-public water systems other than those serving single dwellings, in accordance with the provisions of 7:10-7.3(d).

(e) Participate upon request of the department in special sampling of public and non-public water systems.

(f) Advise consumers of public water systems of Boil Water Orders imposed by the department when requested by the latter to do so.

(g) Implement bans on additional connections to public community water systems that cannot provide safe and adequate service to consumers, upon the request of the department.

(h) Confer with the local plumbing code official and survey premises served by non-public and public water systems for plumbing cross-connections not in compliance with the Plumbing Sub-Code, 5:23-3.5, of the New Jersey Standard Construction Code and, where found, secure abatement of such plumbing cross-connections.

(i) Assure that premises are surveyed for unapproved physical connections between public community water systems and public non-community or non-public water systems; assure removal of such unapproved physical connections or installation of approved physical connections is required in accordance with 58:12A-1 et seq. and N.J.A.C. 7:10.

(j) Perform, or assure the performance of, initial inspection, quarterly pressure tests and annual internal inspections of approved physical connection devices and certify all results of such inspection concerning compliance with 58:12A-1 et seq. and N.J.A.C. 7:10.

(k) Maintain, or assure the maintenance of, records of all certificates, inspections, sampling analyses and actions taken relating to non-public or public water systems, cross-connections, and physical connections.

(l) Where violations of applicable statutes or regulations are discovered, take appropriate enforcement action under the Environmental Rights Act, 2A:35A-1 et seq.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:1H-3.6