Quasi Public Water Supplies and Cross Connections with Municipal Water Supplies

Practical Aspects of Cross‐Connection, Inter‐Connection and Back‐Flow Protection

“…The East Bay Municipal Utility District at Oakland, Calif., found 408 dual supplies, mostly private wells cross-connected with the public supply (16). Memphis, in 1936, reported 143 quasi-public supplies under control (9). Remarkable surveys have been made at New York City (17) and Detroit (17) indicating that 70 per cent of the plumbing was unsafe.…”