The use of all water pumped by private or quasi-public water supplies for industrial
and drinking purposes shall be limited to reasonable use. The term "reasonable use"
shall be defined as that use of water which is ordinarily required by industries,
firms and individuals in the usual operation of their business. It shall also include
such water as may be reasonably necessary for cooling, refrigeration and air conditioning,
subject however, to the limitations and conditions herein mentioned. The amount of
water reasonably necessary for the purposes mentioned herein may be determined by
the effect the use of the same, when combined with similar uses by others, may have
on the available water supply and on the sewerage system available for the carrying
off of waste water. In all cases where it will be feasible for private water supplies
to reuse water for cooling through the use of cooling towers, evaporative condensers
or some other such device, the health department may require the use of some such
device in order to conserve the amount of water taken from the water bearing strata
from which the public drinking water supply is obtained and to limit, so far as practicable,
the amount of waste water which must be handled by the public sewer system. The city
engineer may require the use of cooling towers, evaporative condensers or some other
such device in all such conditions existing prior to the passage of this chapter in
order to conserve the amount of water taken and to limit the amount of waste water
handled by the public sewer system. In any and all cases that might arise due to the
drilling of new wells in which the existing public sanitary or storm sewer available
is too small to handle the additional load, then such waste water must be handled
in some other manner satisfactory to the city engineer.
(Code 1967, § 32-117; Code 1985, § 16-411)
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