It shall be unlawful to cause, allow or permit the discharge
of sewage from any premises in the Village into or upon any road,
public place, stream, watercourse, ditch, surface or subsurface, groundwater
or stormwater drain.
The following are prohibited:
A. To discharge or cause to be discharged into any public sewer, directly
or indirectly, any groundwater, surface water or rainwater from yards
or areas or courts or roofs.
B. To discharge or cause to be discharged into any public sewer, directly
or indirectly, any overflow or drainage from manure pits, cesspools
or other receptacles storing or constructed to store organic wastes.
C. To throw or to deposit, or to cause or allow to be thrown or deposited,
in any fixtures, vessels, receptacles, inlet or opening connected
directly or indirectly with any public sewer any garbage, vegetable
parings, ashes, cinders, rags or any other matter or anything whatsoever,
except feces, urine, necessary toilet paper and liquid house slops,
or to allow any house sewer connected with the public sewer to be
likewise connected with any privy vault or cesspool or underground
drain or with any channel conveying water or filth, except such soil
pipes and other plumbing works as shall have been duly inspected and
approved. These provisions shall not apply to the use of garbage disposal
units for the disposal of residential kitchen waste.
Whenever possible, the building lateral shall be brought to
the building at an elevation below the basement floor. Building laterals
laid parallel to a bearing wall shall not be installed closer than
three feet to such wall. The building lateral shall be laid at uniform
grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction
shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings. Changes
of direction of 90° or greater shall be made with a cleanout which
extends to grade, terminating in a terminal box set in concrete. The
ends of all building or street laterals which are not connected to
the interior plumbing of the building for any reason shall be sealed
against infiltration by a suitable stopper, plug or by other approved
means.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit
gravity flow to the public sewer, wastewater carried by such drain
shall be lifted by mechanical means and discharged to the building
lateral, on approval of the Superintendent.
All excavations required for the installation of a building
or street lateral shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved
by the Superintendent. Pipe laying and backfill, regardless of pipe
material used, shall be performed in general accordance with Paragraphs
3 through 6 of ASTM Specification C 12, except that trench width,
measured at the top of the installed pipe, shall not exceed the outside
pipe diameter plus 24 inches and except that no backfill shall be
placed until the work has been inspected. The depth of cover over
the pipe shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost, but
in no case shall such depth be less than four feet.
The street lateral, building lateral or the combined lateral
shall be tested for infiltration/exfiltration by:
A. Any full pipe method described in §
95-19; or
B. A suitable joint method, with the prior written approval of the Superintendent.
All excavations for constructing building laterals shall be
adequately protected 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 Superintendent. When installation requires
disturbance of paved public roads and shoulders, restoration shall
involve backfilling to road grade.
All costs associated with the provisions of this article shall
be borne by the property owner. The property owner shall indemnify
the Village from any loss or damage that may be directly or indirectly
occasioned by the installation of the building and street laterals
and connections and appurtenances.