§ 112.42 - What requirements apply to inspecting and maintaining my agricultural water systems?

§ 112.42 What requirements apply to inspecting and maintaining my agricultural water sources, water distribution system, and pooling of watersystems?

(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 (including water sources, water distribution systems, facilities, and equipment), to identify any conditions that are reasonably likely to introduce known or reasonably foreseeable hazards into or onto covered produce or food contact surfaces in light of your covered produce, practices, and conditions, 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 distribution systems, to the extent they are under your control, as necessary and appropriate to prevent the water distribution system systems from being a source of contamination to covered produce, food contact surfaces, or areas used for a covered activity, or water sources, including by regularly inspecting and adequately storing all equipment used in the system.

(c) You must adequately maintain all agricultural water sources to the extent they are under your control (such as wells).

Such maintenance includes

regularly inspecting each source

:

(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;

correcting

(2) Correcting any significant deficiencies (

e.g.,

such as control of cross-connections and repairs to well

cap

caps, well

casing

casings, sanitary seals, piping tanks, and treatment equipment

, and control of cross-connections

);

(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

(

d

4) As necessary and appropriate,

you must implement

implementing measures reasonably necessary to reduce the potential for contamination of covered produce with known or reasonably foreseeable hazards

as a result of

resulting from contact of covered produce with pooled water

. For

(for example,

such measures may include using

through use of protective barriers or

staking to keep covered produce from touching the ground or using an alternative irrigation method

through equipment adjustments).