(a) Notification of the Department of Health.

1. (1)

   1. (A) The owner shall report to the department within the forty-eight-hour time limit prescribed by the department the failure to comply with any primary drinking water regulation including failure to comply with monitoring requirements.
   2. (B) The owner is not required to report analytical results to the department in cases where the analysis was performed by the public health laboratory of the Department of Health.
   3. (C) The owner shall report to the department within four (4) hours of the discovery and evaluation of any emergency condition located in the water system which affects the ability of the water system to deliver adequate quantities of safe water to its customers.
   4. (D) Examples of such emergencies include:

(i) Loss of pressure in the distribution system;

1. (ii) Failure of the source or treatment facility or parts thereof;

   1. (iii) Voluntary or mandatory water conservation efforts; or

      1. (iv) The known or suspected introduction of any contaminant into the water system.

2. (2)

   1. (A) The owner shall report to the department, within two (2) working days, of any change of the operator of record for the water system.
   2. (B) The owner shall report both the names of the former operator of record and the new operator of record.

(b) Notification of the public.

1. (1)

   1. (A) The owner shall, as directed in writing by the department or as required by the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, 40 C.F.R. pts. 141 – 143, notify the public of its failure to comply with the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, and/or its failure to comply with this part, or of any emergency condition.
   2. (B) Public notification shall be given using the wording directed by the department.
   3. (C) The public notification shall be given in a timely manner as directed by the department.
2. (2) In lieu of applying specific National Primary Drinking Water Regulations public notification requirements to bottled water, the Engineering Section of the Department of Health shall notify the water bottler and the appropriate state regulatory program when the department has determined that there has been a failure of the bottled water source to comply with the monitoring, maximum contaminant level, or treatment technique requirements of the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations, as applied to nontransient noncommunity public water systems.