§ 35-11-107 — Equipment and installation requirements

Colorado § 35-11-107

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 35: Agriculture
• Art.: Colorado Chemigation Act

Text

(1) An irrigation
system utilizing chemigation on and after January 1, 1990, or an irrigation system
which has been issued a provisional chemigation permit shall have, as component
parts thereof, a properly installed and functioning:

(a) Backflow prevention check valve and vacuum relief valve between the
main check valve and the irrigation pump;

(b) Inspection port to check the performance of the check valve on the
irrigation pipeline;

(c) Automatic low-pressure drain placed between the main check valve and
the irrigation pump so that a chemical will drain away from the source of water
supply;

(d) Check valve in the chemical injection line; and

(e) Simultaneous interlock device between the power system of the chemical
injection unit and the irrigation pumping plant to protect the water supply from
contamination in the event such pumping plant ceases to operate.

(2) An irrigation system which would otherwise be subject to all of the
requirements of subsection (1) of this section may be exempted from one or more of
such requirements if the owner of such irrigation system can demonstrate that the
possibility of the source of water from which the irrigation system draws its water
cannot be polluted or contaminated as the result of utilizing such irrigation system
for chemigation.

Legislative History

Source: L. 87: Entire article RC&RE, p. 1281, � 1, effective July 1.