ORDINANCE NO. 2512

AMENDING THE 1988 UNIFORM FIRE CODE

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION:

That Section 10.301(c) of the 1988 Uniform Fire Code is amended by adding the following:

A Permittee shall provide a plan that provides for the following:

(1) hydrants shall be on a looped (receiving water from more than one direction) water supply line of at least eight inches in diameter; and

(2) the requirements set forth in the 1984 Guide for Determination of Required Fire Flow published by the Insurance Services Office, 160 Water Street, New York, New York, shall be met; and

(3) based on accepted engineering methodologies, the water provider should be able to supply the amount of water as calculated pursuant to (b) above.

Exception #1: Hydrants located less than 1000 feet from a looped water line (measured along the water line between the hydrant and the looped supply source) may be placed on dead end lines (Of less than 1000 feet in length), provided the line feeding the hydrant will supply the required fire flow and be not less than eight inches. Required fire flow shall be determined pursuant to the 1984 Guide for Determination of Required Fire Flow.

Exception #2: The Fire Chief may allow a looped water line size to be reduced from eight inches to not less than six inches if the Permittee can establish by means of a plan prepared by a professional engineer, that a six inch line will supply the required fire flow and that the required fire flow is actually available from the water provider.

Introduced this 20th day of February, 1991.

PASSED and ADOPTED this 20th day of March, 1991.

William E. McCurry

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President of the Council

Attest:

Neva B. Lockhart, CMC

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City Clerk

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 2512, was introduced, read, and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said body held on the 20th day of January, 1991, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City, at least ten days before its final passage.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 21st day of March, 1991.

Neva B. Lockhart

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Neva B. Lockhart, CMC

City Clerk

Published: February 26, 1991

Published: March 22, 1991

Effective: April 21, 1991