Your Water System. If you are a property Owner you are responsible for maintaining all of the pipes and fittings between our Water Infrastructure and the building and/or taps on your property. This is referred to as Your Water System. As a property Owner, you are responsible for any damage caused by the failure of Your Water System.
Your Water System. You as property Owner are responsible for maintaining all of the pipes and fittings between our Water Infrastructure and the building and/or taps on the property (which together comprise Your Water System) and any damage caused by the failure of Your Water System. If your property has a connection to our Water Infrastructure that is 25 millimetres or greater, You must supply, install, commission, maintain and, if required, repair and/or replace a Backflow Prevention Device that is approved by us on Your Water System. For the avoidance of doubt the Backflow Prevention Device will be owned by You.
Your Water System. If you are an Owner, you own and are responsible for operating, maintaining and repairing all of Your Water System. We will maintain and repair Our Water System up to but not including the Customer’s Connection Point. The Customer’s Connection Point is at the point on the Meter valve assembly immediately downstream of the Meter. To the extent Our Water System is on your Property, you agree to grant us unfettered access to Our Water System for the purposes referred to in section 9.1. We do not maintain or repair: • illegal services and water services installed contrary to appropriate codes, regulations and standards or our Connection Requirements • dedicated fire services or combined fire and domestic water services connected to Our Water System • private water services, that are not Our Water System, connecting to our water mains under the terms of a “Non-standard Agreement” with us; or • faults resulting from wilful or negligent damage (other than caused by us). You are also responsible for rectification of any illegal services installed contrary to appropriate codes, regulations and standards or our Connection Requirements. We will also not meet the costs of installing any private services or modifying, upsizing or relocating existing private systems. We are not responsible for installing, maintaining, repairing or annual testing of backflow prevention containment devices (ie devices to prevent the reverse flow of water from a potentially polluted source into the Drinking Water supply system) on your Property. Please see also our Standard Terms & Conditions applicable to your Supply on our website if you have any questions about the repair and Maintenance responsibilities in relation to the Services.
