No unauthorized person 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 Superintendent.
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 front building sewer may be extended to the
rear building, and the whole considered as one building sewer, but
the Village does not and will not assume any obligations or responsibility
for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection
aforementioned.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent,
to meet all requirements of this chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building
sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe,
jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench shall all conform to
the requirements of the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and
Building Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village.
In the absence of the code provisions or in amplification thereof,
the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the
building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings
in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the
public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall
be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior
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 by the Superintendent for purposes of
disposal of polluted surface drainage.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention
and Building Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the
Village or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the ASTM and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections
shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing.
Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be
approved by the Superintendent before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and
connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be
made under the supervision of the Superintendent or his representative.