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9. No pipe shall be used for the conveyance of, or in connexion with, water
supplied by the Company, which is laid or fixed through, in, or into any drain,
ashpit, sink, or manure-hole, or through, in, or into any place where the water
conveyed through such pipe may be liable to become fouled, except where such
drain, ashpit, sink, or manure-hole, or other such place shall be in the unavoidable
course of such pipe, and then in every such case such pipe shall be passad through
an exterior cast-iron pipe or jacket of sufficient length and strength, and of such
construction as to afford due protection to the water-pipe.
10. Every pipe hereafter laid for the conveyance of, or in connexion with
water supplied by the Company, shall, when laid in open ground, be laid at least
two feet six inches below the surface, and. shall in every exposed situation be
properly protected against the effects of frost.
11. No pipe for the conveyance of, or in connexion with, water supplied by
the Company, shall communicate with any cistern, butt, or other receptacle used
or intended to be used for rain water.
12 Every "communication pipe" for the conveyance of water to be supplied
by the Company into any premises shall have at or near its point of entrance into
such premises, and if desired by the consumer within such premises, a sound and
suitable stop-valve of the screw-down kind, with an area of waterway not less than
that of a half inch pipe, and not greater than that of the " communication pipe,"
the size of the valve within these limits being at the option of the consumer.
If placed in the ground such "stop-valve" shall be protected by a proper
cover and "guard-box."
13. Every cistern used in connexion with the water supplied by the Company
shall be made and at all times maintained water-tight, and be properly
covered and placed in such a position that it may be inspected and cleansed.
Every such existing cistern, if not already provided with an efficient " ball-tap,"
and every such future cistern shall be provided with a sound and suitable " balltap
" of the valve kind for the inlet of water.
14. No overflow or waste-pipe other than a "warning-pipe" shall be
attached to any cistern supplied with water by the Company, and every such overflow
or wastepipe existing at the time when these regulations come into operation
shall be removed, or at the option of the consumer shall be converted into an
efficient "warning-pipe," within two calendar months next after the Company
shall have given to the occupier, or left at the premises in which such cistern is
situate, a notice in writing requiring such alteration to be made.
15. Every "warning-pipe" shall be placed in such a situation as will admit
of the discharge of the water from such "warning-pipe" being readily ascertained
by the officers of the Company. And the position of such "warning-pipe" shall
not be changed without previous notice to and approval by the Company.
16. No cistern buried or excavated in the ground shall be used for the
storage or reception of water supplied by the Company, unless the use of such
cistern shall be allowed in writing by the Company.
17. No wooden receptacle without a proper metallic lining shall ba hereafter
brought into use for the storage of any water supplied by the Company.