No person (unless an authorized agent or contractor of the Town
Board) shall uncover, make any connection with or opening into, use,
alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without
first obtaining a written permit from the Town Board.
No person shall discharge, or cause to be discharged, any storm
water, groundwater, cooling water or any other inflow, as defined
in this Part 2, to any sanitary sewer. Swimming pool drains shall
not be connected to any sanitary sewer.
B.
In either case, a permit application shall be submitted to the Town
Board and a permit obtained before any connection is made to the public
sanitary sewers. The permit application shall be supplemented by any
plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent,
in the judgment of the Town Board. Connections to existing manholes
shall be made as directed by the Town Board. A fee, for residential,
commercial, and institutional users, as established by the Town Board,
shall accompany the application except for those initial service area
users who connect to the public sanitary sewer laterals within six
months of notice from the Town Board that the POTW system is ready
for connection. An extension of time may be granted by the Town Board,
in its discretion, depending on the circumstances, upon application
for such extension of time by the initial user.
A separate and independent building lateral shall be provided
for every building requiring sanitary facilities. When, however, there
is a building behind a front building, the second building may use
the front building's building lateral, if there is no other way to
provide sanitary service to the back building. New street laterals
and/or building laterals shall not go under building basements. In
like fashion, a building shall not be constructed over an existing
lateral; the lateral shall be relocated after the Town Board has approved
plans showing the relocation.
When building laterals are to serve multiple dwellings, the
building lateral shall be sized in accordance with the estimated or
actual water use of such structures and with sound professional engineering
standards and judgment.
Where a lateral sewer is to serve a group of commercial, institutional,
or dwelling structures, or any combination thereof, Town Board approval
and special design of the building lateral system shall be required.
Ownership and maintenance agreements of said lateral system must also
be approved. The Town Board shall determine if and where this connection
to the public sewer is required and whether a monitoring manhole is
required. If required, a new manhole shall be installed in the public
sewer and the lateral connection made and tested as directed by the
Town Board. Plans and specifications shall be prepared and submitted
for approval pursuant to this Part 2.
Existing building laterals may be used in connection with new
buildings only when they are found, on examination by the Town, to
meet all requirement of this Part 2. Abandoned laterals and/or lateral
connections shall be cut and capped as approved by the Town Board,
at the owner's expense.
Building and street lateral pipe materials shall be approved
by the Town Board consistent with specifications adopted by the Town
Board or the New York State Building Code, if such is applicable.
All costs, including operation and maintenance costs, associated
with the provisions of this article shall be borne by the property
owner unless specifically stated or agreed to be a cost borne by the
Town. The property owner shall indemnify the Town from any loss or
damage to the POTW that may be directly or indirectly occasioned by
the installation of the building and street laterals and connections
and appurtenances.
Abandoned connections or connections not used by the property
owner shall be cut and capped, as approved by the Town Board, at the
property owner's expense.
A.
All contractors engaged in connecting building laterals with sanitary
sewers shall file a bond in the amount of $50,000 with the Town Clerk
to indemnify the Town against loss, cost, damage or expense sustained
or recovered on account of any negligence, omission or act of the
applicant for such a permit, or any of his, or their, agents, arising
or resulting directly or indirectly by reason of such permit or consent,
or of any act, construction or excavation done, made or permitted
under authority of such permit or consent. All bonds shall contain
a clause that permits given by the Town may be revoked at any time
for just cause.
B.
Before commencing work, the above contractor shall file insurance
certificates with the Town Clerk for the following:
(1)
Workers' compensation and employer's liability insurance as required
by the laws of the state covering the contractor.
(2)
Personal injury liability having limits of not less than $1,000,000
each occurrence and $1,000,000 aggregate (completed operations/products,
personal injury);
(3)
Property damage liability having limits of not less than $500,000
for all damages arising during the life of the contract, and shall
include, but not be limited to, the following designated hazards:
(5)
Business excess liability insurance in the amount of $2,000,000.
(6)
All insurance policies must provide for 30 business days' notice
to the Town before cancellation and must cover all liabilities of
the Town and be in a satisfactory form approved by the Town Attorney.
C.
Where it is necessary to enter upon or excavate any highway or cut
any pavement, sidewalk or curbing, permission must be obtained from
the Superintendent of Highways if a Town highway is involved, from
the County Department of Public Works if a county highway is involved,
and for the New York State Department of Transportation if a state
highway is involved.
D.
The minimum insurance limits above shall be as established by the
Town Board and shall be subject to periodic review and adjustment,
as appropriate, by the Town Board.
