§ 15.56.050. Use of public waters restricted—Conservation regulations.

A.

No water from the public supply shall be used by any air conditioning or refrigeration system having a total rated capacity of two tons per twenty-four hours and above unless such air conditioning or refrigerating system is equipped with evaporative condensers, cooling towers, spray ponds or other approved water cooling equipment. This equipment shall be of sufficient capacity to insure that the maximum requirements for makeup water when operating under full loading at maximum summer temperatures will not exceed 0.2 gallons per minute per ton of capacity; provided, that systems with a total rated capacity of less than two tons per twenty-four hours may use water from the public supply if equipped with an automatic valve on each unit which will stop the flow of water when the unit is shut down and throttle the flow of water down to the momentary requirements of the system.

B.

Water regulating devices which will minimize the waste of water shall be installed on all manufacturing processes which require the use of water from the public supply.

C.

In the event any person maintains such air conditioning or refrigerating equipment described in this section which is supplied with water from a source other than the public supply, but who has a service connection to the metropolitan government's sewerage system into which excessive use of water by such air conditioning or refrigerating equipment would discharge, then, such person shall be subject to all regulations prescribed in this section for the conservation of water the same as if they were obtaining water from the public supply.

(Prior code § 40-1-166)