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Check Valve Is Customer's Responsibility
Clarence Annett and his mother Inez Annett owned two lots in Sunday Canyon. One was unimproved and the other contained a vacation home. The house received water from the Sunday Canyon Water Supply Corporation (SCWSC). SCWSC was required to render continuous and adequate service to every customer in its certified area. In December 1988, SCWSC discontinued the Annetts' service because the Annetts refused to install a check valve in the water line on their side of the water meter. Because SCWSC's water system was gravity operated, a substantial decrease in the system's pressure from a break would allow water to reenter the break in the line and backflow into the water line serving houses below the break. This could potentially contaminate the water system. Thus, SCWSC notified its customers that each property owner was individually responsible for installing a check valve as recommended by the state health division. The valves were to be installed on the landowner's property at his or her own expense. A subsequent notice to customers in April 1988 said failure to install the valves could result in termination of service. The Annetts, the only customers who refused to install the valves, sued to enjoin the utility from discontinuing service. The trial court ruled against them.
Check Valve Is Customer's Responsibility
Clarence Annett and his mother Inez Annett owned two lots in Sunday Canyon. One was unimproved and the other contained a vacation home. The house received water from the Sunday Canyon Water Supply Corporation (SCWSC). SCWSC was required to render continuous and adequate service to every customer in its certified area. In December 1988, SCWSC discontinued the Annetts' service because the Annetts refused to install a check valve in the water line on their side of the water meter. Because SCWSC's water system was gravity operated, a substantial decrease in the system's pressure from a break would allow water to reenter the break in the line and backflow into the water line serving houses below the break. This could potentially contaminate the water system. Thus, SCWSC notified its customers that each property owner was individually responsible for installing a check valve as recommended by the state health division. The valves were to be installed on the landowner's property at his or her own expense. A subsequent notice to customers in April 1988 said failure to install the valves could result in termination of service. The Annetts, the only customers who refused to install the valves, sued to enjoin the utility from discontinuing service. The trial court ruled against them.
Check Valve Is Customer's Responsibility
1992-11-01
1 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English