In this chapter:

"Approved backflow prevention assembly" or "assembly" means any testable assembly for the purpose of backflow prevention, with the exception of an approved air gap, that has been issued a certificate of approval by the University of Southern California Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research, or such other third-party certifying entity, unrelated to the product’s manufacturer or vendor, that is acceptable to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. The Director maintains a list of assemblies.

"Association" means the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association, an Arizona corporation.

"Backflow" means the undesirable reversal of flow of water or mixtures of water and other liquids, gases or other substances into the distribution system of the public potable water supply.

"Backpressure" means a form of backflow due to any elevation of pressure in the downstream piping system (by pump, elevation of piping, or steam and/or air pressure) in excess of the supply pressure at the point of service delivery that would cause, or tend to cause, a reversal of the normal direction of flow through the backflow prevention assembly.

"Body of water" means a lake, pond, lagoon or swimming pool in a new development that has a total surface area greater than 12,320 square feet or is larger than one percent of the net lot area of the parcel of land on which the water feature is located, and that is filled or refilled for landscape, scenic or recreational purposes. A body of water that is used incidentally for landscape, scenic or recreational purposes is deemed not to be filled or refilled for landscape, scenic or recreational purposes. Only for the purpose of determining the surface area of a body of water, two or more bodies of water that are connected are considered to be one body of water. A swimming pool that has a surface area less than 12,320 square feet is not a body of water.

"Certified repairer" means an individual certified to repair backflow prevention assemblies by the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association, the Arizona State Environmental Technology Training Center, or another agency or organization involved with the training and certification of repairers acceptable to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

"Certified tester" means an individual certified to test backflow prevention assemblies by the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association, the Arizona State Environmental Technology Training Center or another agency or organization involved with the training and certification of testers acceptable to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

"City design standards" means the City Design Standards Manual for Water and Wastewater Systems as described in Section 37-17.

"City public water system" or "public water system" means all water utility components operated and maintained by the City by which the City provides water within the City and to the City’s customers.

"Contiguous" means in contact at any point along a boundary or part of the same master planned community. Two parcels of land are contiguous even if they are separated by one or more of the following: a road, easement or right-of-way.

"Cross connection" means any unprotected or potential connection or structural arrangement between a public or a customer’s potable water system and any other source or system through which it is possible to introduce into any part of the potable water system any used water, industrial fluid, gas, or substance other than the intended potable water with which the system is supplied. Bypass arrangements, jumper connections, removable sections, swivel or changeover devices and other temporary or permanent devices through which or because of which "backflow" can or may occur are considered to be cross connections. Compliance with the Phoenix Plumbing Code creates a rebuttable presumption that a cross connection does not exist.

"Customer" means any person that holds a City water or wastewater services account in the person’s name or that receives water from the City public water system.

"Department" means the City Water Services Department.

"Department representative" means an employee of the Department or a person contracted to do work for the Department.

"Developer" means any person that subdivides land or constructs, reconstructs, converts, structurally alters, relocates, or enlarges any structure.

"Development" means the subdivision of land or the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure.

"Director" means the City Water Services Director or a person designated in writing by the Director to act on the Director’s behalf.

"DWR" means the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

"Existing turf-related facility" means a turf-related facility that, as of September 30, 1994, is in operation or has obtained all pre-construction permits and approvals required by Federal, State or local government, or for which substantial capital investment has been made in the physical on-site construction of the facility in the 12 months before September 30, 1994, or that is owned or operated by a party, successor or designee who has agreed to be bound by the provisions of an agreement requiring use of reclaimed water and covering the conditions of reclaimed water service entered into with the City before September 30, 1994. This includes an expansion or modification of a turf-related facility, if that expansion or modification increases the area of land to which water is applied for turf-related watering purposes and has been substantially commenced as of September 30, 1994. An expansion or modification has been substantially commenced if the owner or operator of the facility has obtained all pre-construction permits or approvals required by Federal, State or local government for that expansion or modification or has made a substantial capital investment in the physical on-site construction of the expansion or modification in the 12 months before September 30, 1994.

"Groundwater Code" means the Arizona Groundwater Management Act, Arizona Revised Statutes, Title 45, Chapter 2 (Section 45-401 et seq., Arizona Revised Statutes) [2018], and any subsequent amendments of those statutes.

"Landscape watering" means the application of water from any source, including effluent, by a turf-related facility, to a water-intensive landscaped area, a low water use area, or revegetation acres. Revegetation acres means acreage contiguous to a turf-related facility that has been approved by the Director as qualifying for a revegetation allotment adjustment.

"Landscaping plant" means any member of the kingdom Plantae, including any tree, shrub, vine, herb, flower, succulent, ground cover, or grass species that grows or has been planted outdoors and is used for scenic design purposes.

"Lot" means a parcel of land or two or more contiguous parcels to be used as a unit.

"Management plan" means the management plan for the Phoenix Active Management Area most recently adopted by the Director of DWR pursuant to Article 9 of the Groundwater Code.

"New turf-related facility" means a turf-related facility, including any expansion or modification, that increases the area of land to which water is applied for turf-related watering purposes, that has not been substantially commenced as of September 30, 1994, and that does not qualify as an existing turf-related facility.

"Non-potable water" means reclaimed water; stormwater runoff that is not subject to appropriation under Section 45-141, Arizona Revised Statutes; water withdrawn pursuant to a poor quality groundwater withdrawal permit pursuant to Section 45-516, Arizona Revised Statutes; groundwater withdrawn pursuant to a Type 1 or Type 2 non-irrigation certificate of grandfathered right issued by DWR; and any water source that is not potable water but is of a quality suitable for landscape irrigation and which meets all local, state and federal water quality requirements for full body contact.

"Planning and Development Director" means the Director of the City Planning and Development Department, or the Director’s authorized deputy, agent, designee or representative.

"Point of service delivery" means the terminal end of a service connection from the public water system. If a meter is installed at the end of the service connection, then the point of service delivery means the downstream end (i.e., customer’s side) of the meter. If an unmetered connection exists, then the point of service delivery means at the point of demarcation between the public right-of-way or easements and private property.

"Potable water" means water delivered through the City’s public water system after treatment designed to meet Environmental Protection Agency and Arizona Department of Environmental Quality drinking water standards.

"Reclaimed water" means wastewater that has been treated or processed by a wastewater treatment plant or an on-site wastewater treatment facility for reuse.

"Roosevelt Irrigation District Exchange" means the agreement and arrangement by which the City, Roosevelt Irrigation District, the Salt River Project, and the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community exchange water.

"Salt River Project" means the Association and the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District.

"Sewage," "sewer," "sewer system," and "wastewater" have the same meanings prescribed in Section 28-1.

"Suspend water service" means to terminate or limit flows of the City public water system to a premises pursuant to this chapter.

"Terminate water service" means to cease water flows of the City public water system to a premises pursuant to this chapter.

"Turf-related facility" means a facility that applies water from any source to ten or more acres of land for turf-related water purposes.

"Used water" means any water from the public water system after it has passed through a customer’s point of service delivery.

"Water-intensive landscaped area" means, for the calendar year in question, the area of land within a turf-related facility that is watered with a permanent water application system and planted primarily with plants that are not low water use plants, and the total water surface area of the facility. (Ord. No. G-6741, § 2 (Exh. A), 2020)