A.
Permit required. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connection
with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the City Engineer.
B.
Notification of new discharge. Any person proposing a new discharge
into the system or a substantial change in the volume or character
of pollutants that are being discharged into the system shall notify
the enforcing officer at least 45 days prior to the proposed change
or connection.
C.
Classes of permits; application for permit.
D.
Payment of costs; indemnification of City. All costs and expenses
incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer
shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the City from
any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by
the installation of the building sewer.
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 from the front building may be
extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building
sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the enforcing
officer, to meet all requirements of this article.
A.
The size, slope, alignment and 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 building and plumbing codes or other applicable
rules and regulations of the City.
B.
In the absence of 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.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or
other applicable rules and regulations of the City, or the procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual
of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be gastight under a
pressure of five pounds per square inch. Tests shall be conducted
by pressurizing the public system adjacent to the connection and the
private sewer at the expense of the applicant for the building sewer
permit. Leakage will be determined by the development of bubbles at
joints when they are wiped with a soapy solution. Any deviation from
the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the enforcing
officer before installation.
The applicant for the building permit shall notify the enforcing
officer 48 hours prior to the time when the building sewer is ready
for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection
shall be made under the supervision of the enforcing officer or his
representative.
All 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.
A.
Building permits for all sewer connections must be signed by both
the Engineering Division for the physical availability of the sewer,
and the Sewer Commission for the available capacity of affected sewers,
interceptors, combined sewer overflow facilities and the wastewater
treatment facility.
B.
Any project which requires a permit under the Massachusetts Sewer
System Extension and Connection Permit Program, 314 CMR 7.00, must
obtain such a permit prior to connection to the public sewer system.
It is the responsibility of the developer to obtain all approvals
for this permit prior to connection.
C.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be liable for penalties as provided by § 74-165
D.
All projects shall be subject to site plan review for sewer and stormwater
facilities.
A.
Any project that is new construction connecting to the sewer system,
or which is of sufficient discharge capacity and requires a state
sewer extension permit pursuant to the Massachusetts Sewer System
Extension and Connection Permit Program, 314 CMR 7.00, must contribute
to the reduction of infiltration and inflow to the public sewer system.
This may be in the form of a limited inflow/infiltration study, actual
removal of inflow/infiltration by pipeline rehabilitation, combined
sewer separation, storm drain installation, specific pipeline maintenance
projects, a permit fee or other method as approved by the Sewer Commission
and Department of Community Utilities.
B.
Such inflow/infiltration reduction must establish an effective removal
or planned removal of four times that volume proposed to that which
is being introduced.
C.
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection approval of
314 CMR 7.00 permits is no longer required; the Sewer Commission shall
continue to implement the program through the site plan approval process.
