A.
Permit required. No person shall undertake to construct or provide
a system or facilities for the disposal of waterborne sewage, domestic
or trade wastes or human excrement to serve any building, dwelling,
school, institution or premises in or from which such wastes may be
discharged unless such construction conforms to standards approved
by the Commissioner of Public Works.
B.
Such plans for construction shall be submitted for approval to the
Commissioner of Public Works; and after approval of such plans, he
shall issue a permit.
It shall be the duty of the owner of every building, dwelling,
school, institution or premises now or hereafter erected upon any
land adjacent or accessible to a public sewer to cause said building,
dwelling, school, institution or premises to be properly connected
with such sewer; and no such building, dwelling, school, institution
or premises hereafter erected shall be inhabited, occupied or used
by any person before the same shall be connected with a public sewer,
if practicable, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Public Works.
The Commissioner of Public Works may issue an order upon the owner
of any property whereon any other method of sewage or liquid waste
disposal, including private sewers, long house connections or multiple-house
connections, is located requiring said owner to abandon the use of
such other method of sewage or liquid-waste disposal within a period
of not more than 30 days and to connect with such public sewer system.
A.
No sewage, human excrement or liquid waste may be discharged, deposited
or permitted to flow on the surface of the ground.
B.
No person shall be allowed to disconnect, break or relocate a sewer
pipe without permission from the Commissioner of Public Works, and
the breakage of any sewer piping shall be repaired by the owner within
a twenty-four-hour period.
The operator of every sewage treatment plant shall furnish such
records and reports as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner
of Public Works for ascertaining the effectiveness of the plant operation.
A.
No person shall open or enter, or cause to be opened or entered,
any manhole of any public sewer to dispose of garbage or other deleterious
substances or storm- or surface waters or for any other like purpose
not provided for by permits issued in compliance with this chapter.
B.
No person shall connect a building, dwelling, school, institution
or premises to a sewer or make an industrial sewer connection to a
public sewer except with the consent of the Commissioner of Public
Works.
A.
No person shall engage in the business or practice of cleaning of
subsurface sewage disposal systems or the emptying and removal of
such sewage, sludge or human excrement unless such person shall have
applied for a permit from the Commissioner of Public Works. After
approval of the equipment to be used and the application, a permit
shall be issued.
B.
No person shall remove or dispose of any sewage, human excrement
or liquid waste without first obtaining permission therefor from the
Commissioner of Public Works for such removal or disposal. Disposal
of such sewage, human excrement or liquid waste shall be at a place
and in a manner designated by the Commissioner of Public Works. Notice
of 24 hours shall be given to the Commissioner of Public Works before
such removal or disposal takes place.
A.
No person shall allow or cause to be allowed, in or on any court,
yard, area or the premises of any habitable building or in or on any
vacant lot or other place or direct or divert the flow on the property
of others, any surface drainage which may be or may become a public
health nuisance.
B.
The location of manholes, cleanouts and other such appurtenances
shall be installed as directed by the Director of the Bureau of Plumbing.
C.
Where a proposed long house connection passes through private property
other than the property to be served by said house connection, the
applicant shall furnish an easement of at least five feet in width,
said easement to be shown on the drawings submitted with the application.
Said easement shall be recorded in the County Clerk's office, and
a copy of the recorded easement shall be filed with the Director of
the Bureau of Plumbing.
D.
Upon completion of the work, a certificate will be required from
the professional engineer who prepared the plan and profile attesting
to the fact that the work has been completed and installed in accordance
with the plan, profile and specifications.
E.
The diameter of a long house connection shall be based upon the estimated
design flow. However, in no case shall the long house connection be
less than six inches in diameter, and said connection shall be constructed
of extra-heavy cast-iron pipe. In the event that the estimated design
flow requires a pipe size in excess of six inches in diameter or the
pipeline is to serve more than one structure, construction of a private
sewer will be required.
All extensions to the sewer system shall conform to the minimum
requirements set up in the New York State Department of Health Rules
and Regulations for the Preparation of Plans for Sewerage and Sewage
Disposal and Waste Disposal Systems, Bulletin I, Part I, and the Recommended
Standards for Sewage Works.
A.
Private sewers.
(1)
"Private sewers" shall be construed to mean pipelines, installed
by persons or corporations or agencies other than the City of Yonkers,
to convey domestic or industrial waste to the City of Yonkers sewer
system, which will be dedicated to the City of Yonkers and be incorporated
in the overall sewer system. Connection by adjacent property owners
shall be permitted free of charge, except for necessary permits and
fees required by the City of Yonkers.
(2)
Sewers constructed by private interests in a public street, upon
satisfactory completion, will automatically become a portion of the
overall sewer system of the City of Yonkers.
(3)
The minimum size of private sanitary sewers shall be eight inches,
and they shall be designed to meet the minimum standards outlined
in Bulletin I, Recommended Standards for Sewage Works, and the requirements
and specifications of the Department of Public Works, City of Yonkers.
B.
Connection to sanitary sewer system. The owner of any habitable building
or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other
purpose abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there
is a public or private sewer shall be required to connect to such
sewer by individual connection to each building site.
A.
Application for an individual subsurface sewage disposal system shall
be made on a form approved by the Commissioner of Public Works. The
plans and a report shall be prepared by a licensed professional engineer
and shall include an analysis of the soil, percolation rate, number
of bedrooms and other pertinent waste data. The engineer's seal shall
be affixed to the plan and signed.
B.
Cesspools will not be permitted for sewage disposal except where
special permission is granted by the Commissioner for the disposal
of laundry wastes.
C.
Individual subsurface sewage disposal systems will not be permitted
for the disposal of sewage for subdivisions.
D.
Lots submitted for approval shall meet all of the following minimum
requirements:
(1)
The lot shall contain no less than the area required in Chapter 43, Zoning, and shall not be subject to appeal for the reduction of the required area.
(2)
The area for the subsurface sewage disposal system shall contain
sufficient area, based upon the percolation rate, to take the design
flow and provide for additional space as may be required by the Public
Health Engineer for future expansion or for system failure. This area
shall not include a ten-foot setback from all buildings, property
lines and side yards. A minimum distance of 10 feet is required from
a sharp break in slope. The filled-in area shall be sealed with at
least a thirty-inch-thick layer of clay around its edges.
(3)
Soil shall have a percolation rate of at least 15 minutes per inch.
The percolation test shall be taken at the bottom of the trench or
at the average depth of the dry well, in undisturbed soil.
(4)
The groundwater shall be more than four feet below the bottom of
the trench or pit.
(5)
Ledge rock shall be at least four feet from the bottom of the trench
or pit.
(6)
Surface, roof, foundation, cellar and cooling water or area drainage
must be so disposed of as to:
(7)
Raising of the grade in the area for the subsurface sewage disposal
system will not be permitted to heights in excess of five feet. The
percolation test shall be made in the undisturbed soil.
(8)
The material to be used as fill shall be approved by the Commissioner
of Public Works.
(9)
The subsurface sewage disposal shall be designed according to the
Standards for the Construction of Sewage or Waste Disposal Systems,
on file with the Division of Environmental Health.
E.
The application, plan and engineer's report shall be submitted to
the Director of the Division of Environmental Health. After review,
if it is found that the plot and surrounding area are suitable for
the addition of a subsurface disposal system, a permit will be issued.
If, in the professional-engineering judgment of the Director of the
Division of Environmental Health, the area is not suitable for additional
sewage subsurface systems by virtue of too much rock, high water table,
poor drainage, potential flooding or other factors which will cause
the system to not operate properly, a permit will be denied.
