Required inspections; frequency of inspection of protective device.
Cape Coral Code of Ordinances § 19-152
in effect§ 19-152 - Required inspections; frequency of inspection of protective device.
(a) The City Utilities Director, or City Utilities Director's designee, is granted the authority to inspect any and all water service connections served by the public water supply, and to take appropriate action to ensure the integrity of the water system. Duly authorized representatives of the City shall be permitted to enter any structure or property served by a connection to the public water supply system of the City to inspect for actual or potential cross-connections or water quality, to test and inspect backflow prevention devices, to conduct health hazard assessments, to inspect reclaimed water or reuse water systems, and to identify hazards that could contaminate the public water supply system. In order to protect the public water supply system, granting reasonable access to the City and its agents to enter private property for such inspections is a condition of receiving City utility service.
(b) It shall be the duty of the commercial or multi-family water user on any premise on account of which backflow protective device are installed to allow the City and its agents to make competent inspections at least once a year, or more often in those instances where successive inspections indicate repeated failure. These devices shall be repaired, overhauled or replaced at the expense of the water user within 30 calendar days from whenever they are found to be defective. Records of the test, repairs and overhaul shall be kept and made available to the water purveyor and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
(c) Nothing herein shall relieve the water user of the responsibility for conducting, or causing to be conducted, periodic surveys of water use practices on the premises to determine where there are actual or potential cross-connections in the user's system through which contaminants or pollutants could backflow in the public water supply system.
(Ord. 22-93, 6-14-1993; Ord. 44-11, 8-22-2011; Ord. 58-23, § 1, 8-16-2023)
Source: City of Cape Coral, Florida, Code of Ordinances, City Charter and Land Development Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/fl/cape_coral/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH19WASEUT_ARTXIIIPRPUWASY_S19-152REINFRINPRDEFetched: 11/4/2026