Confirm compliance requirements before designing or connecting an irrigation system to a reclaimed water (purple pipe) supply in Florida under Chapter 62-610, F.A.C.
domain: Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection (floridadep.gov) · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Confirm the reclaimed water source meets Chapter 62-610's minimum treatment standard (secondary treatment, basic disinfection, and pH control) before it can be legally reused for irrigation.
Verify all new reclaimed-water piping is installed and color-coded as purple pipe per the chapter's identification requirements.
Check whether any existing reclaimed-water piping on the site predates January 10, 2010, since such pre-existing pipe is exempt from the purple color-coding requirement.
Confirm the irrigation use case is permitted under Part III of Chapter 62-610 (e.g., residential lawns, golf courses, schools, parks, athletic fields) and flag any edible-crop irrigation, since direct-contact irrigation of edible crops that won't be peeled, skinned, cooked, or thermally processed is prohibited.
Confirm the utility/reuse provider has the required DEP reuse permit for the system before connecting a new customer or expanding service.
Known gotchas
The purple-pipe color-coding requirement is not universal for all reclaimed water piping in Florida — pipe installed before January 10, 2010 is grandfathered/exempt, so an older system's non-purple pipe may still be compliant.
Reclaimed water irrigation of edible crops is restricted specifically for crops that will be eaten raw without peeling/cooking and where the application method causes direct contact — processed or peeled-crop irrigation may be treated differently.
Chapter 62-610 sets the state minimum; local reuse utilities can impose additional site-specific reuse permit conditions, so the state rule alone doesn't guarantee a given hookup is authorized.
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