The Administrative Officer shall collect a fee from the applicant prior to issuing any permit. The fee shall be $100 following the completion of construction of the public sanitary sewer to which the applicant will connect or following the completion of an improvement which must be connected to a public sewer under Article
III, whichever is later.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify
the town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned
by the installation of the building sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every
building; except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior
lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building
through an adjoining alley, courtyard or driveway, the building sewer from
the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered
as one building sewer.
The size, slope, alignment and materials used in the construction of
a building sewer shall be as follows:
A. Size. All residential building sewers shall be constructed
of a minimum four-inch diameter pipe. Minimum sizes for commercial and industrial
buildings shall be four inches in diameter or of a size necessary to accommodate
peak sewage flows which may occur.
B. Slope. All building sewers shall be laid on a uniform
ascending grade from the public sewer. The following grades shall be considered
the minimum and the maximum grade:
|
Size
(inches)
|
Minimum Grade
|
Maximum Grade
|
---|
|
4
|
2%
|
20%
|
|
6
|
1%
|
12%
|
|
8
|
0.4%
|
9%
|
C. Alignment. All building sewers shall be laid on as straight
a line as possible from the public sewer to the building. Where bends are
necessary, a cleanout shall be provided at all bends greater than one to eight
(1:8) [45°]. If a long sweep bend is used in a building sewer line, a
cleanout is not necessary. Not more than one such bend shall be allowed in
the sewer line.
D. Materials. All building sewers shall be constructed of
the following materials:
(1) Clay: extra strength vitrified clay pipe meeting provisions
of ASTM Specification C-278.
(2) Cast iron: standard weight cast-iron soil pipe meeting
provisions of ASTM Specification A-474.
(3) Asbestos-cement pipe: extra strength asbestos-cement
sewer pipe meeting ASTM Specification C-428.
(4) Polyvinyl chloride (PVC): polyvinyl chloride (PVC) nonpressure
sewer pipe and fittings meeting the provisions of ATM Specification D-3034
or F-679 and shall be SDR-35 or Schedule 40.
E. Pipe joints and joints on clay pipe shall conform to
ASTM Specification C-425, Type 3. Cast-iron pipe shall have jute and lead
or leadite joints or approved mechanical joints. All joints for PVC sewer
pipe shall conform to ASTM Specification D-3212, and shall be joined in accordance
with the manufacturer's recommendations.
F. Building entrance. There shall be a minimum four-inch
diameter standard weight cast-iron soil pipe or four-inch diameter PVC pipe
(SDR-35 or Schedule 40) in a cast-iron (or equivalent) sleeve through the
foundation wall. Immediately inside the building there shall be provided a
four-inch cleanout. In no instance shall there be any connections to the building
sewer on the outside of the building.
Basement facilities will be connected only at the owner's risk
and in all such cases a backwater valve shall be installed inside the building.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity
flow to the public sewer, sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted
by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
No connections of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway
drains, sump pumps or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a
building drain or building sewer which in turn is connected directly or indirectly
to a public sewer shall be permitted.
The connection of the lateral sanitary sewer with the public sewer line
shall be made at the wye or lateral provided for that purpose. This connection
shall not be made at any other point without special permission from the Administrative
Officer. All connections shall conform to appropriate specifications as may
be established by the Town of Fenton. All such connections shall be gastight
and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials
must be approved by the Administrative Officer before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Administrative
Officer when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to
the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the
Administrative Officer or his representative.