Del Mar Municipal Code Ch. 21.08 Water Supply—service Connections

A. Application for all water service shall be made on a form furnished by the City.

B. Should the service connection installed pursuant to the request of an applicant be of the wrong size or installed at a wrong location, the cost of all changes required shall be paid by the applicant; except, the provisions of this Subsection shall not apply where the application is made in writing and there is no error in such application.

C. Every service connection made upon receipt of an application as provided above shall be subject to the following conditions:

1. The applicant shall pay the stipulated rates at the time and in the manner provided in this Code.

2. The City may change rates and temporarily discontinue the service at any time to the consumer, as provided in this Chapter and applicable to State law.

3. The City shall not be liable for any damage by water or otherwise resulting from defective plumbing, broken or faulty services or water mains, or resulting from any condition of the water itself, or any substance that may be mixed with or be in the water as delivered to any consumer.

(Ord. No. 472; Ord. No. 650; Ord. No. 828)

The department reserves the right to determine the size of the service connection, the service pipe and of the water meter, and shall also have the right to determine kind and size of backflow protection and all appurtenances to the service.

For any house or building where heaters of any description are used, the owner shall have a check valve installed on the inlet service pipe to protect meters and City service mains.

There shall be a stopcock in every attachment on the sidewalk just inside the curb, or in the alley, or at a point to be designated by the Superintendent of the Department, which stopcock and its box shall be supplied by the Department, and shall be for its exclusive use and under its exclusive control.

The water consumers are hereby required, for their own protection, to provide at their own expense a stopcock to be placed on the property served within three feet of the water meter.

When the applicant requires the service connection pipe to be extended through a basement wall, the owner of the property shall provide the entrance way through such wall and assume all responsibility for any damage caused by leakage through such entrance way, and shall assume all liability for damage caused by leaking pipes, fittings, or meter installed inside of such basement wall.

All applicants for service connections or water service shall be required to accept such conditions of pressure and service as are provided by the distributing system at the location of the proposed service connection, and to hold the City harmless from all damage arising from low pressure or high pressure conditions or interruptions of service.

A. Each house or building under separate ownership shall be provided with a separate service connection and meter. Two or more houses under one ownership and on the same lot or parcel of land shall be supplied by individual or separate service connections and meters, except in the case of a court or in case a house be located on the rear of an inside lot, one service and meter may be installed by the owner to cover more than one house or building.

B. The City reserves the right to limit the number of houses or the area of land under one ownership to be supplied by one service connection.

C. Not more than one service connection for domestic or commercial supply shall be installed for one building, except under special conditions.

D. A service connection shall not be used to supply adjoining property of a different owner, or to supply property of the same owner across a street or alley.

E. When property provided with a service connection is subdivided, such service connection shall be considered as belonging to the lot or parcel of land which it directly enters.

A. When a fire service connection is installed, the valve governing same will be closed and sealed and remain so until a written order is received from the owner of the premises to have the water turned on. After the water is turned on, the Department shall not be held liable for damages of any kind whatsoever that may occur to the premises serviced by reason of the installation, maintenance, use, fluctuation of pressure or interruption of supply.

B. In no case shall any connection be made with any sprinkler or fire service without the written consent of the department, and should it be found that any such unauthorized connection has been made, or that water has been used from a sprinkler or fire service for any other purpose than extinguishing a fire, the water service shall be shut off and not turned on again until a sum equivalent to the monthly minimum provided for in this Chapter effective at that time, for a similar sized regular installation, is paid covering the entire period during which the service has been installed. A standard meter of the equivalent size of the service pipe shall be installed by the Department at the owner's expense at rates provided in this Chapter.

C. All fire service connections are required to have a detector check valve with isolation valve and bypass meter, installed within a vault or other suitable location acceptable to the Department.

A. All services not otherwise provided for in this Chapter shall be metered, and all City water used on any premises shall pass through a meter.

B. No bypass or connection between the meter and the main shall be made, maintained or permitted, except as may be installed by the Department for sprinkler or fire service.

The connection fee for a new connection needing to acquire capacity in the water system for the first time or upsizing an existing connection will be set as follows:

This connection fee does not include the San Diego County System Capacity Charge or the San Diego County Water Treatment Capacity Charge. Both of these charges are charged to the City of Del Mar for new development and will be passed through to new development.

The connection fee does not include the actual labor and materials costs for the installation of the water meter charged against applicant deposits.

Existing customers upsizing their water meter will be given a credit commensurate with the connection fee for the current meter.