A.
Required. 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
inspector.
B.
Classes. There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer
permits: Class 1, for residential, and Class 2, for commercial and for service
to establishments producing industrial wastes.
C.
Application. The owner or his agent shall make application for a permit of either class specified in Subsection B on a special form furnished by the village. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the inspector.
All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of
the building sewer to the public sewer system shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the village 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, court, yard or driveway, the building sewer from
the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered
as one (1) building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only
when they are found on examination and test by the inspector to meet all requirements
of this chapter.
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 building and plumbing code[1] or other applicable rules and regulations of the village. 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 a building
drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage
carried by such building drain shall be filled 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 applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the 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 inspector
or his representative.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform
to the requirements of the building and plumbing code[1] or other applicable rules and regulations of the village and 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 inspector before installation.
A.
Guarding. All excavations for building sewer installations
shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the
public from hazard.
B.
Restoration of streets, sidewalks, etc. Streets, sidewalks,
parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall
be restored in a manner satisfactory to the village.
