[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
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 a written permit
from the Village Manager.
All costs and expense incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer 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 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, the building sewer from the front building
may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one
building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Manager 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 Village. In the absence
of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and
procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M.
and W.P.C.F. 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 shall make connection of roof downspouts,
exterior 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.
[Amended 3-11-2024 by L.L. No. 2-2024]
A. 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 Village, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the ASTM and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections
shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed
procedures and materials must be approved by the Manager or agent
before installation.
B. Connections
to public sanitary or combined sewers will require a check valve to
be installed on all new sanitary sewer laterals. A check valve will
be required to be installed on all repairs or replacements of sanitary
sewer laterals. The maintenance and cost will be that of the property
owner for the sewer lateral, including the check valve. Check valves
will be placed solely on the property owner's land. No check valves
will be permitted in the roadway, alleyway or sidewalks maintained
or owned by the Village of Saranac Lake.
The applicant for the building-sewer permit
shall notify the Manager or agent when the building sewer is ready
for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection
shall be made under the supervision of the Manager 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 the work shall be restored in
a manner satisfactory to the Village.