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
form the Inspector.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any stormwater, cooling water or unpolluted industrial waters to any
sanitary sewer. Swimming pool drains shall not be connected to any
sanitary sewer.
Dry sewers shall be designed and installed in
accordance to this chapter.
Existing building laterals may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are approved by the Inspector.
In all buildings in which any building drain
is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, wastewater
carried by such drain shall be lifted by mechanical means and discharged
to the building lateral on approval of the Inspector. Any such sewage
lifting or low-pressure house/building lateral shall not be connected
directly to a gravity main sewer but shall be made to a manhole, unless
the low-pressure lateral connection to the street lateral receives
no other gravity sewer connections. The Inspector shall have the authority
to waive or to modify these requirements, where he/she has determined
such waiver or modification to be appropriate.
All excavations required for the installation
of a building or street lateral shall be open trench work unless otherwise
approved by the Inspector. Pipe laying and backfilling, regardless
of pipe material used, shall be performed in general accordance with
ASTM Specification D-2321-83, except that trench width, measured at
the top of the installed pipe, shall not exceed the outside pipe diameter
plus 14 inches and no backfill shall be placed until the work has
been inspected. The depth of cover over the pipe shall be sufficient
to afford protection from frost, preferably four feet, but in no case
shall such depth be less than two feet. Where it is physically impossible
to provide cover of two feet, the pipe shall be insulated with rigid
installation board as approved by the Inspector.
Laterals shall be tested for infiltration/exfiltration
by:
A. Any full pipe method described in Appendix A, Section
4; or
B. A suitable method, with the prior written approval
of the Inspector.
All excavations for constructing building laterals
shall be adequately protected 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 Inspector. When installation
requires disturbance of paved public roads and shoulders, temporary
restoration shall include compacted backfilling to road grade. Shortly
thereafter the applicant shall perform permanent restoration of pavement,
base, subbase and shoulders and/or curbs in accordance with the standards
of the road owner, pursuant to permits obtained by the applicant from
the road owner.
All costs associated with the provisions of
this article shall be borne by the property owner unless specifically
stated or agreed to be a cost borne by the Town. The property owner
shall indemnify the Town from any loss or damage that may be directly
or indirectly occasioned by the installation of the building lateral
and initial construction of street laterals, and connections and appurtenances.
It shall be the responsibility of the property
owner to cap the service connection of any structure either demolished
or destroyed by fire or act of God unless the landowner can verify
that he/she has plans to construct another structure with plumbing
within six months of the demolition. Such capping must be completed
within 60 days of the demolition of any structure. The capping should
be done as close to the sewer main as possible, preferably within
20 feet. Notice of intent to cap a service connection shall be provided
by the property owner (or its representative) to the Inspector at
least five business days prior to its commencement and shall be subject
to inspection by the Inspector. Costs for capping shall be borne by
the property owner unless specified otherwise in any other agreement(s).
Failure to comply with this requirement shall constitute a violation
of this chapter and shall be subject to appropriate enforcement actions.