California Code of Regulations

Relevant regulations taken from the California Code of Regulations.

TITLE 22. Social Security

Division 4. Environmental Health
Chapter 12. Safe Drinking Water Project Funding
Article 1. Definitions

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§63000.28. Drinking Water Standards.
"Drinking Water Standards" means all drinking water requirements set forth in the California Safe Drinking Water Act (section 116275 et. seq. Health and Safety Code) and the regulations adopted by the Department pursuant thereto

Chapter 14. Water Permits
Article 3. State Small Water Systems

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§64214. Service Connection Limitation.
No state small water system shall add additional service connections to the system such that the total number of service connections served by the system exceeds 14 before the water system has applied for and received a permit to operate as a public water system from the Department.
§64215. Water Supply Requirements.
Prior to receiving permit approval, a state small water system which was not in existence on November 12, 1991 shall demonstrate to the local health officer that sufficient water is available from the water system's sources and distribution storage facilities to supply a minimum of three gallons per minute for at least 24 hours for each service connection served by the system.

Article 4. Local Primacy Delegation
§64251. Definitions.
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(1) "Small Water System" means a community water system except those serving 200 or more service connections, or any noncommunity or nontransient noncommunity water system.

Chapter 15. Domestic Water Quality and Monitoring Regulations
Article 1. Definitions
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§64400.10. Community Water System.
"Community water system" means a public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by yearlong residents or regularly serves at least 25 yearlong residents.
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§64400.42. Customer.
"Customer" means a service connection to which water is delivered by a community water system or a person that receives water from a nontransient-noncommunity water system for more than six months of the year.
Article 2. General Requirements
§64412. Determination of Persons Served

(a) The number of persons served by a community water system shall be determined by the water system using one of the following methods:
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(1) Utilizing the most recent United States census data, or more recent special census data certified by the California Department of Finance, for the service area served by the water system;
(2) Multiplying the number of service connections served by the water system by 3.3 to determine the total population served
(3) Determining the total number of dwelling units or efficiency dwelling units as defined in the Uniform Building Code (Title 24, California Code of Regulations), the number of mobile home park spaces and the number of individual business, commercial, industrial and institutional billing units served by the water system and multiplying this total by 2.8 to arrive at the total population served by the system.
(b) Each community water system shall report to the Department annually the number of persons and the number of service connections served by the system using the procedures set forth in subsection (a).

Chapter 16. California Water Works Standards
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Article 2. General Requirements

§64568. Conditions for Adding Service Connections.
A new service connection may be added to a distribution system only if the water system will comply with Section 64562 after the new service connection is added and adding the new service connection will not cause pressure at an existing service connection to be reduced below the standards set in Section 64566.