§ 112.42. What requirements apply to inspecting and maintaining my agricultural water systems?
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/us/cfr/t21/s§ 112.42·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
(a)Inspection of your agricultural water systems. At the beginning of a growing season, as appropriate, but at least once annually, you must inspect all of your agricultural water systems, to the extent they are under your control, to identify any conditions that are reasonably likely to introduce known or reasonably foreseeable hazards into or onto covered produce or food contact surfaces, including consideration of the following:
(1)The nature of each agricultural water source (for example, whether it is ground water or surface water);
(2)The extent of your control over each agricultural water source;
(3)The degree of protection of each agricultural water source;
(4)Use of adjacent and nearby land; and
(5)The likelihood of introduction of known or reasonably foreseeable hazards to agricultural water by another user of agricultural water before the water reaches your covered farm.
(b)Maintenance of your agricultural water systems. You must adequately maintain all agricultural water systems, to the extent they are under your control, as necessary and appropriate to prevent the systems from being a source of contamination to covered produce, food contact surfaces, or areas used for a covered activity. Such maintenance includes:
(1)Regularly monitoring each system to identify any conditions that are reasonably likely to introduce known or reasonably foreseeable hazards into or onto covered produce or food contact surfaces;
(2)Correcting any significant deficiencies (such as control of cross-connections and repairs to well caps, well casings, sanitary seals, piping tanks, and treatment equipment);
(3)Properly storing equipment and keeping the source and distribution system free of debris, trash, domesticated animals, and other possible sources of contamination of covered produce to the extent practicable and appropriate under the circumstances; and
(4)As necessary and appropriate, implementing measures reasonably necessary to reduce the potential for contamination of covered produce with known or reasonably foreseeable hazards resulting from contact of covered produce with pooled water (for example, through use of protective barriers or through equipment adjustments).