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 an application from the Village Clerk. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent.[2]
Application fees are set from time to time by resolution of the Board of Trustees. All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer above and beyond the application fee 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 line shall be provided for every building except where otherwise permitted by the Village Engineer or duly appointed official of the Village Board; 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 building sewer.[2]
The building sewer shall be constructed of one of the following materials:
A.
Sewer lateral pipe for gravity sewer.
(1)
Cast iron sewer pipe shall be extra heavy class with rubber gasket joints and maximum lengths equal to five feet zero inches per ASTM A-74.
(2)
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe shall be of a minimum wall thickness SDR 35 with elastomeric gasket joints, supplied in standard lengths, and conform to ASTM D-3034.
The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the Village Engineer or duly appointed official of the Village Board, but in no event shall the diameter be less than four inches. The slope shall be not less than 1/4 inch per foot.
No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall, which might thereby be weakened. The depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer.
All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open-trench work unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent of the Highway Department. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM specification C12 except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected.
All joints and connections shall be made gastight and watertight.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the “Y” branch, if such branch is available at a suitable location. If the public sewer is 12 inches in diameter or less, and no properly located “Y” branch is available, the owner shall at his expense install a “Y” branch in the public sewer at the location specified by the Village Engineer or duly appointed official of the Village Board. Where the public sewer is greater than 12 inches in diameter and no properly located “Y” branch is available, a neat hole may be cut into the public sewer to receive the building sewer with entry in the downstream direction at an angle of about 45°. A forty-five-degree ell may be used to make such connection with the spigot end cut so as not to extend past the inner surface of the public sewer. The invert of the building sewer at the point of connection shall be at the same or at a higher elevation than the invert of the public sewer. A smooth, neat joint shall be made and the connection made secure and watertight by encasement of concrete. Special fittings may be used for the connection only when approved by the Village Engineer or duly appointed official of the Village Board.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Village Clerk or Water or Sewer Departments when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Village Engineer or duly appointed official of the Village Board, or his representative.
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 work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the Village.
[Added 4-11-1961 [1]]
There shall be an accessible cleanout on the building drain near its junction with the building sewer or building trap inside the building. The cleanout shall be installed on the sewer side of all building fixtures except the building trap, if one is required. Approved material shall be four-inch cast-iron pipe, or SDR-35 PVC. In no case shall the cleanout opening be less than three inches above the basement or grade floor, whichever is lower. The open drain of a basement shower shall not be less than three inches above the basement or grade floor, whichever is lower.
[Added 4-11-1961]
Where all water fixtures in a building are equipped with suitable fixture traps a building trap shall not be required. Where any fixtures are not equipped with suitable traps, there shall be a building trap located within two feet of the cellar or basement wall inside the building consisting of four-inch cast-iron soil pipe provided with two brass cleanout plugs and suitably vented on the house side.
[Added 4-11-1961]
The connection between the building drain and building sewer shall be a duplex coupling and there shall be no threaded connection ahead of the cleanout on the sewer side of the building connection. The bands shall be of a full sweep and the cleanout plug shall be of full size.[1]