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Fayette County adopts new cross-connection control ordinance to strengthen backflow prevention
Summary
The Board unanimously approved Ordinance 2025-05, a comprehensive rewrite of cross-connection control rules that expands the Water System’s ability to maintain and enforce a backflow prevention program and shifts some testing and installation responsibilities away from customers.
Fayette County’s Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 on Nov. 13 to adopt Ordinance 2025-05, which revises Article IV of Chapter 28 of the Fayette County Code of Ordinances to establish updated cross-connection control provisions and a county-administered backflow prevention program.
Water System Director Vanessa Tigert told the Board the revision is a full rewrite of the ordinance last updated…
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