No person shall uncover, make any connections
with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any municipal or Authority
sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Authority and from the Township Engineer. Copies of all applications,
correspondence, plans, specifications and supplemental data which
are furnished by the applicant to the Authority in connection with
said permit shall also be furnished by the applicant to the Township
Engineer. A Township permit shall not be issued in any case requiring
an Authority permit until the Authority permit has been obtained by
the applicant and a copy thereof is furnished to the Township Engineer.
A permit shall be required to pump or empty
any individual sewage disposal facility, and an application for such
a permit shall be accompanied by a permit fee of $10 issued by the
Board of Health.
Extensions of or changes in the existing Township
sewer system to provide sewer service to an unserved area may be initiated
by any private resident and, if approved by the Township Committee,
shall be privately funded. The applicant shall satisfy the requirements
of the Township Engineer and engage their own professional engineer
to design plans in accordance with Township requirements and obtain
a treatment works approval from the NJDEP. The Township of Wyckoff
will not participate or fund any portion of a sewer extension.
The connection from the building drain to the
public sewer via a building sewer lateral shall be installed by and
at the expense of the permittee. Any person doing the work or any
part thereof referred to in this section shall file satisfactory proof
of insurance protecting the Township and Authority from public liability
and property damage in an amount determined by the Township Engineer
and in form satisfactory to the Township Attorney.
All sewer connections shall be made in accordance
with the Plumbing Subcode of the Uniform Construction Code of the
State of New Jersey.
[Amended 11-1-2022 by Ord. No. 1970]
Where determined by the Township Engineer to
be feasible, the building sewer laterals for new construction shall
be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor.
The laterals for existing buildings may be brought to the building
below the basement floor (for basement service by gravity) if determined
by the Township Engineer to be feasible, or where there are no plumbing
facilities requiring basement service or where approved artificial
means of lifting basement sewage is provided, they may be brought
to the building above the basement floor. Building sewer laterals
shall not be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing
wall, which might thereby be weakened. The building connection shall
not be laid in the same trench as the water service connection or
any other public utility, and they shall be provided with a minimum
horizontal separation of five feet where practical. If horizontal
separation is impractical, the building sewer lateral shall be placed
at a lower elevation than, and at least 18 inches below, the bottom
of the water service line. The depth shall be sufficient to afford
protection from frost. The building sewer lateral shall be laid at
uniform grade and be properly bedded in granular material with no
point loading. Changes in direction shall be made only with fittings
of not greater than 45°. Cleanouts shall be placed outside the
foundation at the connection point between the building drain and
the building sewer lateral and at every change in direction, and at
approximately equal intervals of no more than 75 feet in straight
runs. The building sewer lateral from the building shall connect to
the building sewer lateral at the property line via a cleanout. The
cleanout at the property line and the pipe located within the public
right-of-way shall be six-inch ductile iron pipe, or of another material,
as may be determined by the Township Engineer, to the point of connection
with the public sewer main.
No person shall connect roof downspouts, exterior
foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff
or groundwater to a building sewer lateral or building drain which
in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a sanitary sewer. Sump
pumps shall not be connected to a sanitary sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer lateral
in a separate trench shall be provided for every building; 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, then
the building drain from the front building may be extended to the
rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer lateral.
In buildings in which the building drain is
too low to permit gravity flow to the building sewer lateral, sanitary
sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by approved
artificial means and discharged to the building drain or building
sewer lateral.
All excavations required for the installation
of a building sewer laterals shall be open trenchwork unless otherwise
approved by the Township Engineer. Pipe laying and backfill shall
be performed in accordance with the requirements of the Township Engineer,
and no backfill shall be placed over a pipe until the work has been
inspected by the Township Engineer.
The permittee shall notify the Township Engineer
when the building drain is ready for inspection and connection to
the building sewer lateral. The Township Engineer shall apply appropriate
tests to the building drain, and the plumber performing the installation
shall at his own expense furnish all necessary tools, labor and material
for such tests and shall remove and replace or satisfactorily repair
any defective work or materials when ordered to do so by the Township
Engineer.
All excavations for building sewer laterals
shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect
the public. Streets, sidewalks and other public property disturbed
during the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory
to the Township Engineer.
The property owner and contractor shall indemnify
the Township from any loss, expense or damage that may result from
installation of a building sewer lateral.
Where a building sewer lateral discharges into the sewer system of an adjacent municipality, the provisions of all ordinances, rules and regulations of such other municipality, as well as the applicable terms of any agreement between the Township and such other municipality, shall apply to such building sewer lateral and its use in addition to the requirements of this Part
1 of this chapter.
The building sewer lateral connection to the
municipal public sewer shall be completed within three months of the
issuance of a permit unless an extension is granted by the Township
Engineer.