[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 1]
1. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or
opening into, use, alter or disturb any wastewater sewer or a storm
sewer without first obtaining a written permit from the Manager.
2. The owner shall make application for a permit to connect to the Borough's
wastewater facilities on a special form furnished by the Borough.
The permit application shall be supplemented by wastewater information
required to administer this Part. A permit and inspection fee of $100
shall be paid to the Borough at the time the application is filed.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 2]
The costs and expenses incidental to the building sewer installation
and connection to the Borough's wastewater facilities shall be borne
by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Borough from any loss
or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation
of the building sewer.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 3]
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 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
Borough assumes no obligation or responsibility for damage caused
by or resulting from any single building sewer which serves two buildings.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 4]
Existing building sewer may be used for connection of new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the Manager to
meet the requirements of this Part.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 5]
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 Borough. In the absence of code provisions, or in amplification
thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the ASTM and WPCF shall apply.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 6]
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
Borough's wastewater sewer, wastewater carried by such building drain
shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to a building
sewer draining to the Borough sewer.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 7]
1. No person shall connect roof, foundation, areaway, parking lot, roadway
or other surface runoff or groundwater drains to any sewer which is
connected to a wastewater treatment facility unless such connection
is authorized in writing by the Manager.
2. Except as provided in Subsection
1 above, roof, foundation, areaway, parking lot, roadway or other surface runoff or groundwater drains shall discharge to natural outlets or storm sewers not connected to a wastewater facility.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 8]
1. The connection of a building sewer into a wastewater sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other
applicable requirements of the Borough, or the procedures set forth
in appropriate specifications of the ASTM or the WPCF. The connections
shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing.
Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be
approved in writing by the Manager before installation.
2. The connection of surface runoff or groundwater drain to a storm sewer or natural outlet designed to transport surface runoff or groundwater drainage shall conform to the requirements of the applicable building code or other applicable requirements of the Borough. The connection of any such drain to a wastewater sewer under special permit as provided under §
18-147, Subsection
1, of this Subpart shall conform to the requirements specified by the Manager as a condition of approval of such permit.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 9]
The applicant for a building sewer or other drainage connection
permit shall notify the Manager when such sewer or drainage connection
is ready for inspection prior to its connection to the Borough's facilities.
Such connection and testing as deemed necessary by the Manager shall
be made under the supervision of the Manger.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 10]
Excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately
guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from
hazard. Streets, sidewalks, park-ways and other public property disturbed
in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory
to the Borough.
[Ord. 627A, 2/12/1985, Art. V, § 11]
The Manager shall not issue a permit for any class of connection
to the Borough's wastewater sewer or wastewater treatment facilities
unless there is sufficient capacity, not legally committed to other
users, in the wastewater sewers and treatment facilities to convey
and adequately treat the quantity of wastewater which the requested
connection will add to the system. The Manager may permit such a connection
if there are legally binding commitments to provide the needed capacity.