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Town of Warwick, NY
Orange County
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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.
A. 
There shall be three classes of building sewer permits:
(1) 
For residential.
(2) 
For commercial service.
(3) 
For service to establishments producing commercial/industrial wastes.
B. 
In either case, the owner(s) or his or their agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Town of Warwick. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Sewer Inspector. A permit and inspection fee of $75 for a residential, $100 for a commercial and $150 for a commercial/industrial sewer permit shall be paid to the Town of Warwick at the time the application is filed.
C. 
A hookup fee shall be paid to the Town of Warwick in connection to any existing sewer system in the amount of $1,000. This fee shall be payable to the Town of Warwick at such time as an application to hook into any municipal sewer system is received by the Town of Warwick.
[Added 4-24-2003 by L.L. No. 2-2003]
D. 
The Town Board of the Town of Warwick may review on an annual basis the fees set forth in this § 124-15 and revise the rates as necessary to insure that adequate revenues are generated to pay the cost of operation and maintenance, including replacement, and that the system continues to provide for the proportional distribution of operating and maintenance costs, including replacement costs among users. The Town Board will post any changes in such fees when adopted in the Building Department of the Town of Warwick and as may be prescribed by law.
[Added 4-24-2003 by L.L. No. 2-2003]
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.[1] 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.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 82, Fire Prevention and Building Code Administration.
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[1] 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.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 82, Fire Prevention and Building Code Administration.
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.