Ontario Municipal Code Art. 5 Notifications

The City will provide annual testing notifications to an owner or customer’s premise as follows:

(a) First notice. The City will notify the owner or customers when routine backflow prevention assembly testing is needed. The notice will include the date when the test shall be completed by forty-five (45) days after the date of the notice.

(b) Second notice. A second notice shall be sent to each owner or customer that does not have the backflow prevention assembly tested as prescribed in the first notice within the time allowed. The second notice will give the owner or customer a twenty-one (21) day period to have the backflow prevention assembly tested or take other corrective action.

(c) Notice of non-compliance. If no action is taken within the 21-day period, then a notice of non-compliance will be sent to the owner or customer giving the owner or customer a final ten (10) day period to have the assembly tested or take other corrective action.

The City shall survey its service area and conduct a hazard assessment as required by Chapter 3, Article 2 of the Cross-Connection Control Policy Handbook. The City shall issue a notice to install for all premises assessed and determined to require approved backflow prevention assembly. A backflow prevention assembly shall be installed in accordance with this chapter within ninety (90) days from the date of the notice to install.

It shall be the applicant, owner, or customer’s responsibility to ensure backflow prevention assemblies are installed appropriately and demonstrate the assembly is functioning adequately as designed. Failure to install or demonstrate the proper functioning of backflow prevention assemblies by the due date prescribed in §§ 6-8.915 or 6-8.916, or re-test based on criteria described in § 6-8.913, shall be considered non-compliant with this chapter. A notice of violation shall be issued stating the cause of non-compliance with this chapter, when water services will be discontinued, corrective actions the owner or customer shall take to correct the deficiency or violation, and administrative fees to restore water service as prescribed in Chapter 8B of Title 6 of this code.