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 Superintendent.
A.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
for domestic waste service and for service to all other contributors. In either
case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished
by the Town of Sweden. The permit application shall be supplemented by any
plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment
of the Superintendent.
B.
A permit and inspection fee as fixed by the Town Board
shall be paid to the Town at the time the application is filed.
[Amended 8-22-2006 by L.L. No. 3-2006]
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.
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.
A.
Laterals shall be extra-heavy cast-iron soil pipe with
leaded joints, properly caulked and tamped, or with rubber-gasketed joint
similar to Tyton or approved equal, and shall be surrounded by select earth
compacted to a distance of one foot above the pipe.
B.
All soil pipe, inside and outside a building, shall be
cast-iron pipe.
C.
The lateral size shall be determined by maximum sewer
flow.
D.
The minimum internal diameter of the sewer lateral shall
be four inches.
E.
The minimum sewer slope shall be such to produce a velocity
of two feet per second when flowing full or half full.
F.
All laterals shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight
alignment. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipes,
fittings and cleanouts or with manholes.
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 a 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 of Sweden. All such connections shall be
made gastight and watertight. Any deviations from the prescribed procedures
and materials must be approved by the Superintendent before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer connection into the public sewer
shall notify the Superintendent 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.
A.
All excavations for building sewer installation shall
be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public
from hazard.
B.
Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property
disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory
to the Town of Sweden.
