The following acts are prohibited:

(1) Failure by a supplier of water to comply with this part, any order issued hereunder, or the drinking water regulations;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-221-711

  • Contaminant: means any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substance or matter in water. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
  • Cross connection: means any physical arrangement whereby a public water supply is connected, directly or indirectly, with any other water supply system, sewer, drain, conduit, pool, storage reservoir, plumbing fixture or other device which contains, or may contain, contaminated water, sewage or other waste or liquid of unknown or unsafe quality which may be capable of imparting contamination to the public water supply as a result of backflow. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
  • Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
  • Drinking water regulations: means regulations promulgated pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
  • Person: means any and all persons, including individuals, firms, partnerships, associations, public or private institutions, state and federal agencies, municipalities or political subdivisions, or officers thereof, departments, agencies, or instrumentalities, or public or private corporations or officers thereof, organized or existing under the laws of this or any other state or country. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
  • Public water system: means a system for the provision of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if such serves fifteen (15) or more connections or which regularly serves twenty-five (25) or more individuals daily at least sixty (60) days out of the year. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Supplier of water: means any person who owns, operates or controls a public water system. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
(2) Failure by a supplier of water to comply with the requirements of §§ 68-221-706 and 68-221-707 or the dissemination by such supplier of any false or misleading information with respect to remedial actions being undertaken to achieve compliance with the drinking water regulations;
(3) Refusal by a supplier of water to allow an authorized representative of the department or any local health department to inspect any public water system as provided for in § 68-221-705;
(4) The defiling by any person of any water supply of a public water system or the damaging of any pipe or other part of a public water system, unless due to an act of God;
(5) The discharge by any person of sewage or any other waste or contaminant at such proximity to the intake, well or spring serving a public water system in such a manner or quantity that it will, or will likely, endanger the health or safety of customers of the system or cause damage to the system;
(6) The installation, allowing the installation, or maintenance of any cross connection, auxiliary intake, or bypass, unless the source and quality of water from the auxiliary supply, the method of connection, and the use and operation of such cross connection, auxiliary intake, or bypass has been approved by the department;
(7) The return of drinking water to a public water distribution system after it has been used for cooling or any other purpose;
(8) The heavy pumping or other heavy withdrawal of water from a public water system or its water supply source in a manner that would either interfere with existing customers’ normal and reasonable needs or threaten existing customers’ health and safety; and
(9) The abandonment or other termination of water services by a supplier of water, without providing at least sixty (60) days’ notice to all interested parties, including the department and all customers served by the public water system.
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