Indiana Administrative Code › Title 410 - INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Article 7 - FOOD AND DRUGS › Rule 15.5 - Sanitation of Bed and Breakfast Establishments › Section 15.5-39 - Water supply

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 16-19-3-4; IC 16-41-31-5
Affected: IC 16-41-31
Sec. 39.
(a) A bed
				and breakfast establishment shall be provided with a safe, potable water supply
				through the use of a public water supply system if the water supply is
				reasonably available to the bed and breakfast establishment. If a public water
				supply system is not available, water shall be provided by a system approved by
				the local board.
(b) The water for
				a bed and breakfast establishment shall be supplied under pressure. The water
				supply and distribution system shall be sized and constructed to deliver water
				at twenty (20) pounds per square inch minimum pressure to all fixtures and
				appurtenances during periods of peak water demand.
(c) For bed and breakfast establishments
				which are not connected to public water supply and which have six (6) or fewer
				rooms for rent, the minimum distance between wells and buried pump suction
				lines and from sources of contamination shall be in accordance with the
				following:
Sewers and drains
50 feet
Exception: Sewers and drains of waterworks grade ductile iron
				  pipe with mechanical joints or PVC pressure sewer pipe with an SDR rating of
				  twenty-six (26) or less, having mechanical or compression joints, may be
				  located within the fifty (50) foot distance. In no case, however, shall sewers
				  be located closer than twenty (20) feet to dug and bored water supply wells nor
				  closer than ten (10) feet to drilled and driven water supply wells or
				  subsurface pump suction lines.
Septic tanks, soil absorption systems, wastewater
							 treatment facilities, and privies
50 feet
Streams, lakes, ponds, and ditches
25 feet
Property lines
50 feet
Exception: The distances enumerated herein shall be doubled
				  for soil absorption systems constructed where there exist horizons, layers, or
				  strata within thirty-four (34) inches of the ground surface with a loading rate
				  greater than seventy-five hundredths (0.75) gallons per day per square foot as
				  determined from 410 IAC 6-8.1-49, Table V, unless that hazard can be overcome
				  through system design.
(d)
				For bed and breakfast establishments which are not connected to public water
				supply and which have more than six (6) rooms for rent, the minimum distance
				between wells and buried pump suction lines and from sources of contamination
				shall be in accordance with the following:
Sewers and drains
100 feet
Exception: Sewers and drains of waterworks grade ductile iron
				  pipe with mechanical joints or PVC pressure sewer pipe with an SDR rating of
				  twenty-six (26) or less, having mechanical or compression joints, may be
				  located within the one hundred (100) feet distance. In no case, however, shall
				  sewers be located closer than thirty (30) feet to water supply wells or
				  subsurface pump suction lines.
Septic tanks, soil absorption systems, wastewater
							 treatment facilities, and privies
100 feet
Streams, lakes, ponds, and ditches
25 feet
Property lines
100 feet
Exception: The distances enumerated herein shall be doubled
				  for soil absorption systems constructed where there exist horizons, layers, or
				  strata within thirty-four (34) inches of the ground surface which are
				  classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, as
				  "severe due to poor filter" unless that hazard can be overcome through system
				  design.
(e) Water supplies
				shall have no well head, well casing, pump, pumping machinery, or exposed
				pressure tanks or suction pumping located in any pit, room, or space which is
				walled in or otherwise enclosed so that it does not have free drainage by
				gravity to the surface of the ground at all times.
(f) All water supply wells shall be cased,
				and the annular space properly sealed, to a depth of at least twenty-five (25)
				feet below finished grade. The casing pipe of any well shall project not less
				than twelve (12) inches above flood level, finished grade, or the highest flood
				level of record, whichever is greater. No casing shall be cut off below grade
				except to install a pitless adapter.
(g) Well pumps, pressure tanks, storage
				tanks, etc., shall be sized to meet peak water demands and total daily demands.
				The minimum usable capacity of the pressure tank, in gallons, shall be three
				(3) times the installed well pump capacity, in gallons per minute. If the well
				or pump cannot meet peak demands, sufficient additional usable storage shall be
				provided to meet peak demands.
(h)
				Wells and potable water distribution systems shall be disinfected after
				construction and after each repair. Before releasing the potable system for
				use, the water shall be tested and shown to be bacteriologically acceptable in
				at least two (2) consecutive samples collected twenty-four (24) hours
				apart.
(i) The water supply of a
				bed and breakfast establishment may not be constructed or altered until the
				plans for construction or alteration have been submitted to and approved by the
				local board.