No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with
or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenances
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Plumbing
Inspector and Coordinator.
All costs and expense(s) incident to the installation and connection
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner and/or
the contractor performing the work 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 that where one building stands at the rear
of another on any interior lot and no private sewer is available or
can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley,
court, yard or driveway, 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 Plumbing
Inspector, to meet all requirements of this Part 2.
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 New York State Building and Plumbing Code
or other applicable rules and regulations of the . In the absence of code provisions or in amplification
thereof, the materials and procedures sea forth in appropriate specifications
of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water
Pollution Control Federation (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 Building and Plumbing Code or other
applicable rules and regulations of the Town or the procedures set
forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and 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 Plumbing Inspector before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
Plumbing Inspector when the building sewer is ready for inspection
and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under
the supervision of the Plumbing Inspector, Coordinator, or their representatives.
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 Highway Superintendent, Town-designated engineer and the Coordinator.