The costs and expenses incidental to the building sewer installation and connection to the City's wastewater facilities shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall provide the City with indemnification and insurance in accordance with §
199-41 of this Part
2.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided
for every building, except 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 serving the front building may
be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building
sewer. The City assumes no obligation or responsibility for damage
caused by or resulting from any single-building sewer which serves
two buildings.
Existing building sewers may be used for connection of new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the City Engineer,
to meet the requirements of this Part 2.
The size, slope, alignment, construction materials, trench excavation
and backfill methods, pipe placement, jointing and testing methods
used in the construction and installation of a building sewer shall
conform to the building and plumbing code or other applicable requirements
of the City. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification
thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the ASTM and WEF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
Whenever practicable, the building sewer shall be brought to
a building at an elevation below the basement floor. In buildings
in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the
City's POTW, wastewater carried by such building drain shall
be lifted by an approved means and discharged to a building sewer
draining to the City sewer.
The applicant for a building sewer or other drainage connection
permit shall notify the City Engineer when such sewer or drainage
connection is ready for inspection prior to its connection to the
City's facilities. Such connection and testing as deemed necessary
by the City Engineer shall be made under the supervision of the City
Engineer.
Each connection permit issued to a property owner pursuant to the provisions of §
199-42 of this article shall be invalid unless work is commenced and completed in accordance with the terms thereof, and no work shall be done after any permit has expired unless and until a new permit shall have been obtained from the City Engineer. The City reserves the right to revoke any permit so issued upon violation of any of the provisions of this Part
2. The property owner whose permit shall be so revoked shall thereupon be required to secure a new permit upon such terms as the City may prescribe.
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 City.
The City Engineer shall not issue a permit for any class of
connection to the POTW unless there is sufficient capacity, not legally
committed to other users, in the POTW to convey and adequately treat
the quantity of wastewater which the required connection will add
to the system. The City Engineer may permit such a connection if there
are legally binding commitments to provide the needed capacity.