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.
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.