No person shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use,
alter, disturb or discharge into any public sewer or appurtenance thereof
without first obtaining a written permit from the Administrator or the Town
Board where designated.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits, one for residential
and commercial service and one for service to establishments producing industrial
wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a
special form furnished by the Administrator. The permit application shall
be accompanied by plans, profiles, specifications or other information considered
pertinent by the Administrator. All permit applications for service to establishments
producing industrial wastes shall be subject to Town Board approval after
a public hearing. A permit and inspection fee for a residential or commercial
building sewer permit or for an industrial building sewer permit in the amount
prescribed in a fee schedule adopted by the Town Board shall be paid to the
Sewer District.
All costs and expenses in installing and connecting a public sewage
system or building sewer to the Town sewage system shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the Sewer District for any loss or damage that might
be occasioned by the installation and connection of such public sewage system
or 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 a separate
interior lot and no 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, but each shall be considered a separate unit for the
purpose of sewage service charges.
Existing building sewers may be used in conjunction with new buildings only when they are found, upon inspection and testing by the Administrator, to meet all requirements of this Part
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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, sewage carried
by such building drain shall be lifted by a method approved by the Administrator
and discharged to a gravity-flow 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 to a public
sewer.
All excavations for building sewer excavations shall comply with all
federal, state and local safety regulations and 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 work
shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Administrator and appropriate
municipal authorities.
Building sewers shall be maintained, serviced and repaired by the owner of the property served, from the building drain to the public sewer within two feet of the public sewer located in the easement across the private property. In the event that a property is unable to discharge sewage into the public sewer, it will be presumed that the fault is in the private building sewer unless contrary facts are in evidence. Evidence of willful damage to a building sewer being served by a public sewer shall be considered a violation of this Part
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In the Sewer District, where public septic tanks are used as a part
of the treatment and disposal process, such septic tanks may be pumped out
a minimum of every four years in a staggered program such that at least 25%
are pumped out every year. Inspection of septic tanks, both for their sludge
content and the physical condition of their appurtenances, shall be performed
annually. Annual inspection will be used to determine the need, if any, for
more or less frequent pumping of certain tanks.
Before any building whose building sewer is connected to a public sewer
is demolished, the cutoff or plugging of the building sewer shall be done
with the permission of and under the supervision of the Administrator.