13.04.080 General requirements for water service installation.
A. Size. The department will furnish and install a service of such size and at such location as the applicant requests; provided, that the requested size is appropriate for the anticipated use and the location is reasonable. The minimum size of service shall be three-fourths of an inch. The department may refuse to install a service line that is, in the department’s opinion, undersized or oversized.
B. Changes in Service Size. Any changes in the size of the service line requested by the customer shall be paid by the customer on the basis of actual cost to the department for making the change.
C. Location. All water services shall be installed no closer than five feet from a side lot line and must be a minimum of 15 feet from a fire hydrant and a minimum of 10 feet from any other utility appurtenances such as sewer lines, light or power poles, or buried electrical services.
D. Installation. All water services shall be installed in straight lines, perpendicular to the water main, at a uniform grade. If necessary, water mains shall be extended, at applicant’s cost, to allow the service line to be perpendicular to the water main. Water services shall be buried a minimum of six feet.
E. Materials. All water services shall be constructed of a size and of materials meeting borough standards.
F. All water services installed by personnel other than borough personnel shall be installed only after borough approval of the location, materials, and methods of construction of the water service. All such water service installations shall be subject to borough inspection.
G. Where an exemption has been granted to a developer from the requirement to connect to borough sewer service, borough water service shall not be provided unless the following requirements regarding the planned on-site wastewater disposal system are met:
1. On-site wastewater disposal system design must be approved in writing by the Alaska State Department of Environmental Conservation (D.E.C.).
2. Upon installation and before closure, the wastewater disposal system must be inspected and approved by a D.E.C.-approved inspector and evidence of such approval provided to the department.
3. The wastewater disposal system must be inspected by a D.E.C.-approved inspector, at the property owner’s expense, every two years, in the spring of the year, with a written approval of the system submitted to the borough by June 1st of each year.
H. HBC 8.12.020(J) declares as a nuisance any discharge of wastewater resulting from the failure of an on-site wastewater disposal system in the borough limits. Such a nuisance must be abated according to the procedures in Chapter 8.12 HBC. If a wastewater system fails on any property served by the borough water system, the borough may, in order to abate the nuisance, turn off water service to that property until the property owner repairs or replaces the failed wastewater disposal system.