A.
Permit required for opening or altering sewers. No 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 Superintendent or other appropriate delegated authority and payment of the appropriate fee as set forth in Chapter A157, Fees.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
B.
Classes of permits.
(2)
In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the town. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. A permit and inspection fee as set forth in Chapter A157, Fees, shall be paid to the Town Clerk at the time the application is filed.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
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 Town of Phelps 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 sewer is
available or can be constructed to the rear of the 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 Superintendent, 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 applicable rules and regulations
of the Town of Phelps. 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, as supplemented and amended
from time to time, 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 or interior 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 applicable rules
and regulations of the Town of Phelps, 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, as supplemented and amended from time to time. All
such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation
from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved, in
writing, by the Superintendent before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Superintendent or other delegated authority when
the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public
sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent
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 town.
