Ordinances and Templates
Ordinances
Ordinances are your utility’s tool to protect itself from costly or unsafe behavior. However, an ordinance will not be useful unless you take actions to enforce it. Do not pass an ordinances unless you have a program in place to carry it out in your community. Otherwise it will be useless. Below are some common ordinances that drinking water and wastewater utilities can benefit from.
Feel free to download these templates and alter them to fit your community’s particular needs.
General Guidance on Ordinances:
Drinking Water Outline and Checklist for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Manual
Drinking Water Operation and Maintenance Manual Outline
Pretreatment/Fats-Oils-Grease (FOG) Ordinances and Templates
- Grease Ordinance Template
- Fats, Oil and Grease Policy example
- EPA Pretreatment Ordinance
- FOG Maintenance Log for Customers
- FOG Compliance Checklist for Customers
- Best Management Practices-FOG
Cross Connection Ordinances and Templates
- Weiser Sample X-Conn. Ordinance
- Bancroft Cross Connection Ordinance Example
- Kuna Backflow Ordinance
- Utah Cross Connection Blank Ordinance Template 1 Note: You will need to adjust this template to reflect Idaho’s codes instead of Utah’s.
- Cross Connection Blank Ordinance Template 2
- See our cross connection page for educational material, policies and programs, customer surveys, FAQs, and more!
Source Water/Wellhead Protection Ordinances and Templates
- Model SWP Ordinance Template
- Memorandum on SWP ordinance template
- Payette SWP Ordinance
- Minidoka County Wellhead Protection
- Elmore County Wellhead Protection
- Twin Falls County Source Water Protection Overlay
- Groundwater Ordinance Template
Sewer and Septic Ordinances
- Sewer Ordinance Example from Abita Springs, LA
- Wastewater Control Ordinance Example from ALBUQUERQUE BERNALILLO COUNTY
- Boise City Septic Ordinance
- Kuna Septic Ordinance
