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 Commissioner. No connection shall be made until all special
requirements are installed and operable. No work shall be commenced
on the building sewer until the permit applied for has been issued
by the Village, and, in any event, such commencement shall be preceeded
by three days notice to the Village of intent to commence. The owner
shall obtain all necessary permits to open any highway for the connection
to the sewer main and shall be responsible for all damage to persons
or property occassioned by such opening. Pavement replacement shall
conform to the requirements of the authority having jurisdiction over
said pavement.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify and save the Village
harmless from any loss, damage or expense, claims or suits arising
out of or in connection with the installation and connection 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 same 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 with separate permit for each building. In the case
of one or more story multiple dwellings which are so designed or constructed
that there is more than one unit on the same floor, there shall be
a separate builidng drain and builidng sewer provided for each unit
located on the ground or lowest main floor.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Commissioner, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
Cesspools or septic tanks shall be discontinued
following connections to a public sewer. The owner shall have these
pools promptly emptied, cleaned and backfilled with earth, sand or
other acceptable clean material.
The size, slope, alignment, material or 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 codes and
all applicable rules and regulations of the county and town or Village
wherein the connection is made. 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. All such connections shall be made gastight and
watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials
must be approved by the Commissioner before installation. 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 into the building sewer. The cost
thereof shall be borne by the owner.
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 public sanitary sewer.
All excavations for building sewer installation
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 Village.
No person shall make connection of a sanitary
sewer to a separate storm sewer.
The Village shall inspect the facilities of
any user to ascertain whether the purpose of this chapter is being
met and all requirements are being complied with. Persons or occupants
or premises where wastewater is created or discharged shall allow
the Village or its representative ready access at all reasonable times
to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling,
records examination or the performance of any of their duties. The
Village, the DEC and the approval authority, the EPA, shall have the
right to set up on the user's property such devices as are necessary
to conduct sampling, inspection, compliance monitoring and/or metering
operations. Where a user has security measures in force which would
require proper indentification and clearance before entry into his
or her premises, the user shall make necessary arrangements with his
or her security guards so that upon presentation of suitable indentification,
personnel from the Village and the approval authority will be permitted
to enter, without delay, for the purposes of performing their specific
responsibilities.
A.
Inspection by the Department of Public Works. All
connections to Village sewer facilities shall be subject to approval
and inspection by the Village. Before any connection shall be covered,
it shall be the duty of the applicant to notify the Department of
Public Works that the connection is ready for inspection, and such
connection shall not be covered until it has been inspected and approved
by a Village representative.
B.
Inspection by others. The Commissioner of Public Works
may, however, in his or her discretion, accept and use in connection
with the issuance of a general permit the inspection and reports of
the building inspectors or other inspection agents of another municipality
with reference to inspection when furnished with official records
of the results therof. In such cases, notification required to be
made to the Department of Public Works by this chapter or as conditions
in permits shall be made instead to the building inspector or inspection
agent of the appropriate municipality.
A.
Other permits. The issuance of a permit for the making
of a connection shall not relieve the permittee or any person presuming
to act under the authority of such permit from obtaining any additional
permits required by law or regulation for the opening of streets or
roads, the construction of building or the like.
B.
Filing of Permits. Any person required under Article III of this chapter to obtain a waste disposal permit or any person presuming to act under the authority of such permit, other than the owner, lessee or possessor of one- or two-family private dwelling, shall, within three business days after the installation of each connection into or each disconnection from a Village sewer facility, file or cause to be filed with the Village Department of Public Works a copy of such permit evidencing the lawful disposal of scavenger wastes.
C.
Return of permits of expiration. Any person described in Subsection B of this section who possesses any expired permit of the type described in such subsection, shall return such permit to the Village Department of Public Works within 10 business days after the date such permit has expired.
D.
Repair of building sewer. The maintenance, repair
and operation of a building sewer to the point of connection to the
public sewer shall be the owner's responsibility and shall conform
to the rules and regulations the Village now in force or hereinafter
adopted. No person shall make or cause to be made any repair of a
building sewer without having first notified the Village, in writing,
on printed forms furnished by the Village. No fee is required on filing
the application for the repair of a building sewer.
In the event that a building that is connected
to the Village of Cedarhurst sanitary sewers is to be abandoned or
demolished or the certificate of occupancy is withdrawn, the connection
to the sewer is to be disconnected at the property line. The Village
sewer is to be plugged in a manner with a watertight plug that is
satisfactory to the Village. The sewer is to be disconnected, plugged
and inspected prior to the start of any other work on the site.
No person shall maliciously, willfully or through
gross negligence break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper
with any structure, appurtenance or equipment which is a part of the
sewer system. Any person violating this provision shall be subject
to immediate arrest under the section or sections of the Penal Law
applicable thereto.
