[Adopted 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 15-1979]
A. 
Prior to making any sewer connection, the owner or his agent shall file with the Village Superintendent an application on the form provided for a permit to do such work. No sewer connection shall be made until such application and permit has been approved. For single-family residences, payment for the service fee as indicated in § 119-19 shall accompany the application. The inspection fee for multi-dwellings, commercial establishments and all others shall be as indicated in § 119-19.
[Amended 9-8-1986 by L.L. No. 4-1986]
B. 
Before a permit may be issued for excavating[1] for sewer in any public street, way or alley, the person or agent applying for such permit shall have executed unto the Village and deposited with the Village Clerk-Treasurer a corporate surety in the sum of $500, except where a larger amount is required by the Village, conditional that he will perform faithfully all work with due care and skill and in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations or any ordinances of the Village. This bond shall state that the person will indemnify and save harmless the Village and the owner of the premises against all damages, costs, expenses, outlays and claims of every nature and kind arising out of unskillfulness or negligence on his part in connection with the sewer installation or excavating for same. Such bond shall remain in force and must be executed for a period of one year after completion of work, except that on such expiration it shall remain in force as to all penalties, claims and demands that may have accrued thereunder prior to such expiration.
[1]
Editor's Note: See also Ch. 59, Excavations.
A. 
All work is to be performed in accordance with the Village local laws and regulations, copies of which are available at the Village Hall. The owner or his agent shall notify the Superintendent of Sewers when the work is ready for inspection. No part of the work shall be covered until it has been examined, tested and approved by the Superintendent or his representative. Upon approval and upon completion of construction, the Superintendent will notify the owner that the building sewer connection has been approved.
B. 
The Superintendent or his representative, in the discharge of his duties and the enforcement of these regulations and for the purpose of inspection, may, upon reasonable notice, enter lawfully upon the properties and the buildings within the Village or connected to the Village sewer system.
C. 
If required by the Superintendent, the application for permit shall be supplemented by plans, specifications and such other information considered by him to be pertinent.
The owner to whom a permit is issued, or in whose interest it is issued, shall be personally responsible to the general public for the conduct of the work. It is recommended that such owners verify coverage under their homeowner's insurance and, if found lacking, to obtain public liability insurance coverage to protect them in this regard.
The following general rules shall apply:
A. 
The building sewer must be at least six inches in diameter and shall be cast-iron or clay pipes.
B. 
No connection or opening shall be made into the sewer system except in the presence of the Superintendent or his representative.
C. 
Water which gathers in sewer excavations shall not be discharged into the sewer system.
D. 
Only sanitary or domestic sewage shall be admitted to the sewer system. No stormwater or surface water from streets, roofs or underdrain tile, water from beneath the cellar floor or other uncontaminated water shall be admitted to the sewer system.
E. 
Gasoline, flammable materials and other prohibited or restricted wastes shall not be discharged to the sewer system. Industrial waste discharges are prohibited. Service stations, garages, parking places, etc., will not be permitted to connect floor drains, grease racks or washstands to the sanitary sewer without written permission of the Sewer Superintendent.
F. 
Opening a manhole and/or dumping material therein without the written permission of the Superintendent is prohibited.
G. 
Where possible, the sewer connection shall be made directly in front of the building. In no case shall the building sewer cross other private property without special permission.
H. 
Where possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. Where a 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 water-operated sewage ejector shall be used.
I. 
No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall which might thereby be weakened. Sewer depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost.
J. 
To protect the public from hazards, all excavations for building sewer connections shall be adequately sheeted and/or shored and guarded with barricades.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See also Ch. 59, Excavations.
K. 
Streets, sidewalks, parking areas and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be properly backfilled, tamped in layers and restored in a manner satisfactory to the Superintendent and/or the County Highway Department and/or the State Department of Transportation where such work is under their respective jurisdictions. Under all Village streets and sidewalks, backfill shall be run-of-bank gravel as approved by the Superintendent. All pavements shall be chisel cut.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: See also Ch. 129, Streets and Sidewalks.
L. 
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found acceptable upon inspection by the Superintendent.
M. 
Building sewers and water service branches or connections shall not be laid in the same trench. Where possible, they shall be separated by a horizontal distance of 10 feet or a vertical distance of 18 inches, unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent.
N. 
As soon as possible after the completion of the building sewer connection, all septic tanks, seepage pits, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned, cleaned of sludge and filled with clean sand or gravel.
O. 
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. Other exceptions will be allowed only by special permission granted by the Superintendent.
P. 
The owner shall be responsible for the repair of any defective laterals, whether the location of the defect lies within the Village street or on the owner's premises. In making any such repair, all local laws, ordinances, regulations, statutes or codes applicable to any installations shall be followed. However, all laterals installed by the Village which become defective by reason of improper installation shall be repaired at the expense of the Village.
A. 
All materials must be of the best quality and free from defects, and all work must be executed in a thorough workmanlike manner.
B. 
Clay pipe and fittings shall be extra-strength clay sewer pipe and shall conform to the requirements of ASTM C200, as amended. Joints shall be of the resilient compression type with rubber O-ring-type gaskets conforming to ASTM C-425, as amended.
C. 
Cast-iron pipe shall be extra-heavy cast-iron soil pipe and shall conform to the requirements of ASTM A-74, as amended. Joints shall be of the resilient compression type with rubber O-ring-type gaskets conforming to ASTM C-564, as amended.
D. 
Clay pipe may be used on private property when a proper foundation consisting of a natural bed of earth, rock, etc., can be obtained: when the pipe is not laid within five feet of the foundation walls of any building; and when the pipe is laid at least three feet below ground. Within the highway right-of-way and under all other conditions, cast-iron pipe will be required.
E. 
All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent.[1] Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM C-12 except as modified by these regulations.
[1]
Editor's Note: See also Ch. 59, Excavations.
F. 
After the trench is excavated and graded, the bottom of the trench shall be carefully tamped to avoid unequal settling of the building sewer. After the pipe is laid, it must be inspected by the Superintendent or his representative before filling in. As the trench is backfilled, care must be taken not to deposit any stone or rock within 12 inches of the pipe, which would cause future breakage. As the trench is filled, the earth must be tightly tamped on each side of the pile and over the pipe so as to secure as near as possible the original degree of soil compaction.
G. 
The building sewer shall be laid at a uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Where changes in direction are necessary, they shall be made only with properly curbed pipe and fittings, as approved by the Superintendent.
H. 
All pipes must have a uniform slope of not less than 1/4 inch per foot unless special permission is given by the Sewer Superintendent to allow a lesser slope. In no case shall the slope be less than 1/8 inch per foot.
I. 
Before joining the pipe in the trench, the bell and spigot surface shall be wiped free of dirt or other foreign materials. A lubricant as recommended by the pipe manufacturer shall be applied to the bell and spigot matting surfaces just before they are jointed into the bell and of the pipe previously laid and shall then be shoved home to compress the joint and to assure a tight fit between interfaces. Care must be taken to prevent any joint material from being forced into the pipe to become an obstruction. All joints and connections shall be made gas- and water tight.
J. 
The joint between the interior building sewer and the exterior building sewer shall be of the compression type. Where material changes, i.e., cast iron to clay, a special adapter, as approved by the Superintendent, shall be used. Proper reducer fittings shall be used between all changes of pipe sizes and materials.
K. 
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall use the six-inch wye branch or tee as installed in the public sewer if such fitting as available at a suitable location on the public sewer. The owner shall install, at his own expense, a saddle hub tee where directed by and in the presence of the Superintendent or his representative. A neat hole shall be cut in the public sewer to receive the saddle hub tee. The invert of the building sewer at the point of connection shall be at the same or higher elevation than the invert of the public sewer. A smooth neat joint shall be made secure and watertight by encasement in concrete.
Building traps shall be provided with two brass cleanout plugs. Such plugs shall be of the same size as the trap for traps up to four inches in size and shall be at least four inches in size for larger traps. Cleanout plugs shall be located at the trap so as to provide access for cleaning the trap interior and for rodding upstream and downstream from the trap, except that where the authority having jurisdiction requires the cleanouts of traps to be extended above the floor level because of local conditions, the cleanouts shall be installed in conformity with such determination.
Where a building trap is installed, it shall be located within the property line, inside the building wherever practicable, on the building sewer, within two feet of the exterior wall of the structure and on the sewer side of all connections, except those provided to receive the discharge from a sewer lift, oil separator, blowoff and condensing tank or leader. Where the cleanouts of such traps are located underground or below a cellar floor, an approved masonry or concrete pit or manhole shall be provided for access to the cleanouts.
Every building sewer equipped with a building trap, sewage sump, ejector, receiving tank, oil separator or similar equipment shall be provided with a fresh-air inlet pipe connected to the building drain immediately upstream from and within four feet of such trap or equipment. Such connection to horizontal drains and the fresh-air inlet pipe shall be extended to the outer air and shall be terminated in an open end at least six inches above grade. The open end shall be protected by a perforated metal plate permanently fixed in the mouth of the inlet and having an open ventilating area of at least equal to the area of the pipe, or a return bend with its unprotected open end at least six inches above grade shall be installed within the property line in an approved location. The size of the fresh-air inlet pipe shall be at least 1/2 the diameter of the building sewer at the point of connection, but at least three inches.