No authorized person(s) 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 Director.
B.
In either case, the owner(s) or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered necessary in the judgment of the Director. A permit and inspection fee in accordance with Part 2, Connection Charges, of this chapter for a residential, commercial or industrial building sewer permit, as applicable, shall be paid to the City at the time the application is filed. Plans and specifications review and site, construction or other inspection as deemed necessary by the Director shall be performed by an engineer selected by the City. All costs for said plans and specifications review and inspections as determined by the Director shall be paid by the private owner.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer and public service lateral to the public sewer shall be borne by the owner(s). The owner(s) shall indemnify the City for any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer. Public service lateral or sewer service connection fees shall be in accordance with Chapter A550, Fees, of this Code.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided
for every building. The City shall permit double sewer service connections
with written permission from the Director.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the Director,
to meet all requirements of this Part 4.
The size, slope, alignment and materials of construction of
a building sewer, the methods to be used in excavating, placing of
the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench and the connection
of the building to the public sewer shall all conform to the requirements
of the Building and Plumbing Codes and the Harford County Standard
Specifications and Details for Water and Sewer or other applicable
rules and regulations of the City.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the
building at an elevation below the lowest floor. In all buildings
in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the
public sewer, sanitary wastes carried by such building drain shall
be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
No person(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts, 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 unless such connection
is approved, in writing, by the Director for purposes of disposal
of polluted surface drainage.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
Director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection
to the public service lateral. The connection and testing shall be
made under the supervision of the Director or his authorized representative.
