No unauthorized person(s) 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 Sewer Inspector.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner(s). The owner(s) shall indemnify
the Town of Warwick 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 shall be provided for every
building, except that where one building stands at the rear of another on
an interior lot and no private sewers are available or can be constructed
to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway,
then the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear
building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but the Town of Warwick
does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused
by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only
when they are found, on examination and test by the Building Inspector, to
meet all requirements of this chapter.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of 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 Code or other applicable rules and regulations of
the Town of Warwick. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof,
the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the
American Society for Testing and Materials and the Water Pollution Control
Federation Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
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(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts, 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 Warwick or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the
American Society for Testing and Materials and the Water Pollution Control
Federation Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight
and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed
procedures and materials must be approved by the Building Inspector before
installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Sewer Inspector
when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public
sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of the
Sewer Inspector or his representative.
All excavations for building sewer installations 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 Town of Warwick.