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Council introduces cross-connection control ordinance, approves new backflow-control plan

5386702 · July 15, 2025
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Summary

The council received the city's updated cross-connection control plan and introduced Ordinance No. 25-03-83 to revise the municipal code. The plan was accepted by the State Water Resources Control Board and implements new testing, hazard-assessment and enforcement provisions.

Solvang on July 14 received the city's revised cross-connection control plan and introduced Ordinance No. 25-03-83 to amend Title 9 of the municipal code governing backflow prevention and testing.

Utility Director Jose Acosta told the council the plan was prepared with consultant Tetra Tech and accepted by the State Water Resources Control Board. The update responds to a December 2023 state cross-connection control policy handbook that required each water agency to submit a local…

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