US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  37
                             FOOD, DRUGS, AND OIL
                                  CHAPTER 21
                            DOMESTIC WATER AND ICE
    37-2102.  DOMESTIC WATER TO BE PROTECTED. Any person or persons,
corporation or corporations, or officers of a municipality, owning or
maintaining any plant or public water system as defined in rules of the
department, for the supply to the inhabitants of this state, or any part
thereof, of water for domestic purposes shall protect the same and keep it
free from all impurities and all other foreign substances which tend to injure
the health of the ultimate consumers of such water, whether such impurities or
foreign substances are chemical or bacterial. It shall be the duty of any of
the persons or corporations owning or maintaining such a plant or public water
system to provide notices to the radio and television station serving the area
served by the public water system or  by direct mail to those persons
consuming such water of any acute violations from the standards established by
the United States environmental protection agency as soon as possible but in
no case later than seventy-two (72) hours. An acute health violation is
defined as: (i) any violations specified by the state as posing an acute risk
to human health; (ii) violation of the maximum contaminant level for nitrate
or nitrite as established by federal regulation; (iii) violation of the
maximum contaminant level for total coliforms, when fecal coliforms of E. coli
are present in the water distribution system; or (iv) occurrence of a
waterborne disease outbreak as defined by federal regulation. For purposes of
this section, maximum contaminant level shall mean the maximum permissible
level of a contaminant in water which is delivered to any user of a public
water system.