Chapter 7 - Water and Sewer
Division 2 - General Provisions
- This Code is not intended to abrogate any covenant, lease,
or other private agreement, provided that when the requirements
of this Code are more restrictive than such covenants, leases
or private agreements, the requirements of this Code shall govern.
- Where the conditions imposed by any provision of this Code are either more or less restrictive than conditions imposed by any other provisions of the Municipal Code or any other law, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation applicable to providing Municipal water service, the regulation which is more restrictive or imposes the higher standard or requirement shall govern.
SEC. 7.2-2. The office of Water Director heretofore established by ordinance is hereby retained. The Water Director shall be appointed by the City Manager and is responsible for the planning, organizing, controlling and supervising of all departmental functions to insure an adequate supply of potable drinking water that is bacteriologically and chemically safe and aesthetically pleasing to its users, and to receive payment with the assistance of the Finance Director and his staff on behalf of the Town for all services it supplies to its customers.
SEC. 7.2-3 ACCESS TO HOMES. The employees of the water system shall have the right at all times of access to any person's premises for the purpose of ascertaining the number and type of water connections to the system, to read the water meter, and to inspect service lines. Any person refusing the right to permit the said employees of the water system the above-described right of access to his premises or to make necessary reasonable repairs shall be subject to prosecution and penalty as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 7.2-4 RESTRICTED AREAS. The water reservoirs, the various well houses and pumping stations serving the water system of the Town of Normal and all of the water treatment plant located between the Illinois Central right-of-way on the west, Linden Street on the east, Mulberry Street on the north, and College Avenue on the south are deemed to be "restricted areas"; and that the general public is forbidden to be upon or within said premises, and particularly within the confines of any fenced off area so posted, unless permission has been first obtained from the Water Director or other person or persons authorized and designated by the City Manager.
SEC. 7.2-5 POSTING AND PENALTY. The Water Director is herewith directed to place "restricted area" warning signs around the confines of all buildings or properties heretofore designated, and any person or persons found within any of said buildings or about said premises and within the confines of any fenced off area shall be deemed trespassing.
SEC. 7.2-6 FLUORIDATION. The water supply of Normal shall be treated with the addition of fluoride so as to provide a residual fluoride ion concentration of between .9 and 1.2 milligrams per liter (Reported as F) in the distribution system, as required by Section 7a of "An Act to Provide for Safeguarding the Public Health by Vesting Certain Measures of Control and Supervision in the Department of Public Health Over Public Water Supplies in the State" (45 ILCS 40/71). (Amended 6/7/93 by Ord. No. 4143)
SEC. 7.2-7 ELECTRICAL GROUNDING. The Town of Normal shall not be held liable for any personal injury or property damage resulting from an inadequate electrical ground where the Town's water piping is used as grounding electrode. The Town shall not be liable for the adequacy of any grounding system and reserves the right to make any structural or material changes in the installation of water mains and water service connections without regard to the effect such changes may make on the overall adequacy of a grounding system utilizing the owner’s water service pipe and/or the Town's water meter.
(ENTIRE DIVISION 2 AMENDED 9/21/81)