No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Town.
There will be two classes of building sewer
permits: Class A for residential services and Class B for commercial
and industrial services. In either case, the owner or his agent shall
make application on a special form furnished by the Town. The permit
application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications and
other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent.
The permit fee for the same shall be as provided for in Town regulations
for water and sewer.
[Amended 10-27-2003]
All costs and expenses incident 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. Installation and connection of building sewers shall be in
accordance with the Standard Specifications and Details for Materials
and Construction of the Town of Aurora.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building, except that 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 building sewer; however, the Town will not assume any responsibility
for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection.
Where building sewers are to serve multiple-dwelling structures, there
shall be provided at least one separate building sewer for each group
of four living units.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
[Amended 10-27-2003]
A.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction
of a building sewer and the methods used in excavating, placing of
pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling of the trench shall all conform
to the requirements of the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention
and Building Code. The maximum infiltration rate for all new sanitary
sewers shall not exceed 200 gallons per day per inch diameter per
mile of pipe.
B.
Construction and material specifications, along with
the requirement for sanitary and storm sewers and connections to existing
sewers, shall be in accordance with the Standard Specifications and
Details for Materials and Construction of the Town of Aurora.
The building sewer shall be brought to the building
at an elevation six inches above 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.
[Amended 10-27-2003]
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the New York State
Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. All such connections shall
be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed
procedures and materials must be approved by the Town before installation.
Installation and connection of building sewers into the public sewer
shall be in accordance with the Standard Specifications and Details
for Materials and Construction of the Town of Aurora.
The applicant for the building permit shall
notify the Superintendent, prior to placing backfill, when the building
sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer.
The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent
or his representative.
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 Town.
[Amended 10-27-2003]
When any building sewer is to serve a school,
hospital or similar institution or public building or is to serve
a complex of industrial or commercial buildings or which, in the opinion
of the Superintendent, will receive sewage or industrial wastes of
such volume or character that frequent maintenance of said building
sewer is anticipated, then such building sewer shall be connected
to the public sewer through a manhole. The Superintendent shall determine
if and where this type of connection to the public sewer is required
and recommend procedures for its installation. The new manhole shall
then be installed in the public sewer at the owner's expense and the
building sewer connection made thereto under the supervision of the
Superintendent or his representative. Installation of manholes shall
be in accordance with the Standard Specifications and Details for
Materials and Construction of the Town of Aurora.
The Town reserves the right to perform all construction
activity related to public sewers and building sewers within street
rights-of-way or easements. All costs for such activity are to be
borne by the owner.
Building sewers shall be serviced and repaired
entirely by the owner of the property being served.
[Amended 10-27-2003]
There shall be an accessible cleanout on the
building drain near the junction with the building sewer outside the
building or at a Y-branch fitting or building tap immediately inside
the building. Installation of cleanouts shall be in accordance with
the Standard Specifications and Details for Materials and Construction
of the Town of Aurora.
