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.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permit: for residential
and commercial services and for services to establishments producing
industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make
application on a special form furnished by the Village. The permit
applications shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or
other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent.
A permit and inspection fee for a residential or commercial building
sewer permit and for an industrial building sewer permit, as established
from time to time by the Board of Trustees, shall be paid to the Village
at the time the application is filed.
All costs and expenses 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,
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 Part 2.
The size, slope, alignment and 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 Codes 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 American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water
Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) Manual of Practice No. 9 or any
current revisions thereof 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 American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water
Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) Manual of Practice No. 9 or any
current revisions thereof. 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 the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory
to the Village.