No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the designated officer of the district.
[Amended 1-22-1986 by L.L. No. 1-1986; 11-14-2007 by L.L. No. 7-2007]
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: for residential and commercial service and for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the district. For proposed commercial and industrial connections, an applicant must provide an engineer's statement outlining estimated flow in gallons per day; total suspended solids and BOD. The permit application shall be supplemented by any other plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the designated officer of the district. A permit and inspection fee of $25 for a residential or commercial building sewer permit and $50 for an industrial building sewer permit or such other amount as may be established from time to time by resolution of the Town Board shall be paid to the district at the time the application is filed.
All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the district from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer to the district sewer line or appurtenances.
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#nd[??278] no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, then the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the designated officer of the town, to meet all requirements of this Part 1.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements of the applicable rules and regulations of the Town of Oneonta. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the State Building and Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Town of Oneonta or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the designated officer of the town before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the designated officer of the town when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the officer of the town or his representative. No backfilling shall be permitted until inspection has been completed and the work approved by the town officers.
All excavations for building sewer installations shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the district.