Section 116780 Of Article 1. Water Softeners From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 104. >> Part 12. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 1.
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. (a) Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions
in this section govern the construction of this article.
(b) "Clock control" means the system controlling the periodic
automatic regeneration of a residential water softening or
conditioning appliance that is based upon a predetermined and preset
time schedule.
(c) "Demand control" means the system controlling the periodic
automatic regeneration of a residential water softening or
conditioning appliance that is based either upon a sensor that
detects imminent exhaustion of the active softening or conditioning
material or upon the measurement of the volume of water passing
through the appliance. A demand control system activates regeneration
based upon the state of the equipment and its ability to continue
the softening process.
(d) "Fully manual regeneration" means the method of regeneration
of a residential water softening or conditioning appliance in which
operations are performed manually and in which dry salt is added
directly to the ion-exchanger tank after sufficient water is removed
to make room for the salt.
(e) "Hardness" means the total of all dissolved calcium,
magnesium, iron and other heavy metal salts, that interact with soaps
and detergents in a manner that the efficiency of soaps and
detergents for cleansing purposes is impaired. Hardness is expressed
in grains per gallon or milligrams per liter as if all such salts
were present as calcium carbonate.
(f) "Local agency" means a city, county, city and county,
district, or any other political subdivision of the state.
(g) "Manually initiated control" means the system controlling the
periodic regeneration of a residential water softening or
conditioning appliance in which all operations, including bypass of
hard water and return to service, are performed automatically after
manual initiation.
(h) "Regeneration" means the phase of operation of a water
softening or conditioning appliance whereby the capability of the
appliance to remove hardness from water is renewed by the application
of a brine solution of sodium or potassium chloride salt to the
active softening or conditioning material contained therein followed
by a subsequent rinsing of the active softening or conditioning
material.
(i) "Salt efficiency rating" means the efficiency of the use of
sodium chloride salt in the regeneration of a water softening
appliance, expressed in terms of hardness removal capacity of the
appliance per pound of salt used in the regeneration process. The
units of salt efficiency rating are grains of hardness removed per
pound of salt used. One grain of hardness per gallon is approximately
equivalent to 17.1 milligrams of hardness per liter.