[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Massapequa
Park: Art. I, 5-22-1967 as Art. VIII of Ch. 7 of the 1967 Code; Art. II, 5-22-1967
as Sec. 11-5 of the 1967 Code. Section 100-3 amended at time of adoption of
Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. Other amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 5-22-1967 as Art.
VIII of Ch. 7 of the 1967 Code]
A.
Required. All buildings, whether business or residential,
shall have gutters, leaders and dry wells. The dry wells shall be located
no less than eight feet from the foundation wall and shall be at least two
feet by two feet by four feet.
B.
Exception. The above requirements of dry wells shall
not apply to that area south of Nassau Street in Residential AA Zone. In that
area, houses shall be constructed with splash pans or other hard surface at
the base of the leaders to conduct rainwater to the road, using the driveway
or other means as a valley to the road in order to prevent erosion. Any builder
in said area shall submit to the Building Department a detailed sketch or
plan showing the location of leaders or splash pans or other hard surface
to accomplish the above.
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Editor's Note: Former Secs. 7-206, Inspection, testing of plumbing; 7-207, Independence of plumbing and drainage systems,; 7-208, Alterations to existing system; L copper piping authorized; 7-209, Lead pipe; quality, connection; 7-210, Size of cast-iron waste, vent, stack, cleanout; 7-211, Extension of soil, vent pipes through roof; 7-212, Branches; 7-213, Traps for fixtures; location, connection; 7-214, Backventing, 7-215, Safe and refrigerator waste pipes; and 7-216, Lead closet bands; size, connections, which immediately preceded this section, and former Sec. 7-218, Housing sewers and drains, which immediately followed this section, were deleted at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
No dry wells, gutters, leaders, air conditioning, refrigeration or pools
of any kind or any similar drainage from any building shall be connected to
the stormwater drainage system of the village.
All cesspools installed for new construction or replacement of existing
cesspools may be of precast concrete steel-reinforced or block construction.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. In addition, former Secs. 7-225, Approval of plans, inspection by Building Inspector; 7-226, Location; and 7-227, Distance requirements for pools, which immediately preceded this section, were deleted at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
When 250 blocks are used in an installation, the pool shall be nine
feet outside diameter or approximately 18 blocks around the bottom.
A pool shall begin tapering in six feet or approximately nine courses
from the bottom of the pool.
All pools shall be kept two feet above the water table and shall finish
with a minimum of one foot or a maximum of two feet below the finished grade.
The top three courses shall be cemented in place.
The waste pipe from house to pool, with a minimum pitch of 1/4 inch
to the foot, shall connect to the pool a minimum of two feet from the top
of the pool.
Waste lines extending from the house to pools or septic tanks shall
have no bends or sweeps.
When two pools are installed, a grease trap shall also he installed.
The top of a pool shall be three feet in diameter and shall be covered
with a reinforced cement cover.
The Building Inspector shall request two drawings showing the size of
a proposed septic tank and either leaching fields or leaching pools, which
shall be determined by soil conditions and/or groundwater and which shall
be approved or disapproved by him.
The minimum capacity of a septic tank for a two- or three-bedroom house
shall be 700 gallons; for a four-bedroom house, 800 gallons; and for a five-bedroom
house, 950 gallons. The minimum size shall be three feet by six feet and five
feet deep, with four feet to the flow line leaving tank, allowing one foot
for air space.
The size and type of septic tanks for commercial buildings shall be
determined by the floor area and the number of fixtures to be served thereby.
When a septic tank is installed for a commercial building, the width
of the tank shall not exceed 50% of its length.
A.
Depth. The top of a septic tank shall be a minimum of
one foot and a maximum of 18 inches below the finished grade.
B.
Roof. Each septic tank shall have a twenty-four-inch
hole in the roof thereof, for cleaning, with a reinforced cover. The roof
of a septic tank shall be no less than four-inch reinforced steel mat, and
the reinforced steel rods shall not be more than six inches apart and shall
be tied at all joints with proper wire.
The Building Inspector shall determine whether or not a baffle shall
be used in a septic tank.
All septic tanks shall have a distribution box of a minimum of two feet
by two feet by two feet deep, with a separate cover with a lifting ring, and
the distribution box shall be built on the opposite end of the tank from the
place where the waste enters. The top of the distribution box shall extend
to the top of the tank.
The waste line from a house to a septic tank shall be iron for the first
four feet from the house, then five-inch transite, and shall have a minimum
pitch of 1/4 inch to the foot.
A.
Location. If leaching pools are approved, they shall
be a minimum of 10 feet apart and a minimum distance of 10 feet from the septic
tank.
B.
Depth. The leaching field shall be a minimum of two feet
above the water table and a maximum of two feet below the finished grade.
C.
Dimensions. The leaching field of a two- or three-bedroom
house shall be a minimum of 75 feet, divided into three twenty-five-foot lengths
from the distribution box on all sixty-foot plots. These fields start a minimum
distance of 10 feet from the house to the center of the inside leaching field,
six feet to the center of the middle field, six feet to the center of the
outer field and three feet from the property line, and shall terminate a minimum
of three feet from the side property line.
D.
Pitch. Leaching fields shall have a pitch of 1/8 inch
to the foot.
If leaching fields are to be used for either commercial or residential
buildings, all bog, clay and other foreign matter shall be removed and backfilled
with bank run. Leaching fields shall be laid in a bed of washed gravel which
shall be a minimum of two feet wide and one foot deep with eight inches below
pipe. The leaching field shall be covered with rubberoid or forty-five-pound
cap sheet.
[Adopted 5-22-1967 as Sec.
11-5 of the 1967 Code]
No person shall deposit or allow to run into or remain in any street
or other public place in the village, or deposit or allow to run into any
stream or other body of water within the village, the contents or any part
thereof of any vault, privy, cesspool, cistern or sink; nor shall any owner,
tenant or occupant of any building to which any vault, sink, privy or cesspool
shall pertain or be attached permit the contents of any part thereof to flow
therefrom or to rise within two feet of any part of the top thereof or permit
said contents to become offensive; nor shall any vault, privy, cistern, cesspool
or sink be filled or covered with dirt until it shall have been emptied of
its filthy contents.
