Nevada Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 6, 2015) |
Chapter445A Water Controls |
PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS |
Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance |
NAC445A.6553. “Air gap” defined.
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- “Air gap” means a physical separation between a point of free-flowing discharge from a pipe that supplies liquid to an open or nonpressurized vessel and the overflow rim of that vessel which is:
1. At least twice the effective diameter of that pipe or, if the pipe is affected by side walls, at least three times the effective diameter of that pipe; and
2. In no case less than 1 inch.
(Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 2-20-97)