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 Superintendent.
[Amended 9-8-1986 by L.L. No. 4-1986; 11-8-1999 by L.L. No.
3-1999; 4-8-2019 by L.L. No. 4-2019]
There shall be two classes of building sewer
permits; one for residential and another for service to commercial
establishments and establishments producing industrial wastes. In
either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special
form furnished by the Village of Coxsackie Sewer Department or the
Village Clerk's office. The permit application shall be supplemented
by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent
in the judgment of the Superintendent of Waste Treatment. A permit
and inspection fee shall be paid to the Village at the time the application
is filed. The permit and inspection fee shall be set by resolution
of the Village Board, as may be amended by resolution from time to
time.
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 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 building through an adjoining
alley, courtyard 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 Part
3 of this chapter.
The size, slope, alignment and materials for
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 provisions or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village.
In the absence of code provisions or in application thereof, the materials
and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM
and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9, as amended, 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.
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and
Plumbing Codes 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, as amended. All such connections
shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed
procedures and materials must be approved by the Superintendent before
installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Superintendent 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 work shall be restored in a manner
satisfactory to the Village.