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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 Director
of Public Works. 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 Director of
Public Works at least 45 days prior to the proposed change or connection.
A. There
shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(2) Commercial
service, for service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
B. In either
case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form
furnished by the Director of Public Works. The permit application
shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information
considered pertinent in the judgment of the Director of Public Works.
A permit and inspection fee as set by the Board of Selectmen based
on the Design Flows Tables 501.1 and 501.2 in the Maine Subsurface
Wastewater Disposal Rules residential or commercial building sewer
permit shall be paid to the Town at the time the application is filed.
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A sewer connection permit shall be applied for and the fees
shall be paid therefor whenever a homeowner applies for a building
permit that will increase the flows from that structure into the collection
system.
All cost and expense incident to the installation and connection
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall
indemnify the Town 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 requiring a sewer connection, except that 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. A deed restriction shall be placed on both properties stating that they have joint ownership in the sewer connection and will maintain it jointly, and the owners of both properties shall be jointly and severally liable for any cost or expense of installation and connection as provided by §
183-22 of this Article
V.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the Director
of Public Works, to meet all requirements of this chapter. The applicant
shall pay for all cost for examination and testing.
The size, slope, alignment, and materials of construction of
a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing
the pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench shall all
conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other
applicable rules and regulations of the Town.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought from
the building at an elevation above 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 a grinder pump or a solids handling pump and discharged
to the building sewer.
No person shall connect any roof downspout, exterior foundation
drain, area drain, or other source 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 Director of Public Works for purposes of disposal
of polluted surface drainage.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other
applicable rules and regulations of the Town. The connection of the
building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the curb fitting
if provided or at the "Y" branch if such branch is available at a
suitable location. On direction of the Director of Public Works, where
no wye branch is available, a neat hole shall be cut, by machine,
into the public sewer to receive the building sewer, with entry in
the downstream direction at an angle of 45° with an approved saddle
or clamp-type fitting. Such connection shall be completely watertight
at the location specified by the Director of Public Works or his designee
(the "Inspector") and shall be completed under the supervision and
in the presence of the Inspector, and as directed by and to the satisfaction
of the Inspector.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
Director of Public Works 24 hours before the building sewer is ready
for inspection and connection to the public sewer. All inspections
shall be performed during regular working hours. Any inspections requested
after the regular working hours or on weekends will be assessed an
additional inspection fee of 1.5 times the Inspector's normal rate
and any other fees that may apply.
All excavation for building sewer installation shall be adequately
guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from
hazards. Streets, sidewalks, parkways, and/or other public property
disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner
satisfactory to the Town.
When any building or other structure previously served by a
connection to any public sewer or drain is demolished, destroyed,
abandoned or altered so that any drain or portion of an abandoned
plumbing system which is directly or indirectly connected to any public
sewer or drain is no longer used and is not connected to the drainage
system of the building or structure, the open end of such which discharged,
directly or indirectly, into a public sewer or drain shall be promptly
closed and sealed to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works,
so that no water or wastes not otherwise permitted to enter the public
sewer or drain shall be so discharged therein. The Director of Public
Works shall be notified of such abandonment or discontinuance, and
of the closing and sealing of such drain, and shall be afforded an
opportunity to see such work performed. All of said work shall be
done by the person or party demolishing the building or structure
or who alters the drainage of the premises so to make such closing
and sealing necessary. In the event such person fails to perform said
work, the work shall be done by the owner, lessee or tenant of the
premises to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, all
without expense to the Town.
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Every person seeking to, or required to, make connection with
the public sewer system shall pay the charge under this section. Such
charge is in addition to any other charge imposed by this chapter.
A. The connection fee for each sewer unit charge imposed under Article
XIII shall be as set by the Board of Selectmen. For those uses to be assigned a special charge under that article, the connection fee shall be established by the Selectmen. Any person seeking to make connection shall fill out an appropriate form provided by the Director of Public Works. When the form has been approved and the fee paid, the Director of Public Works shall notify the Code Enforcement Officer or designee. No building permit or occupancy permit may be issued until the fee has been paid.
B. For any change of use within a building, or expansion or alteration to a building, which results in an increase in the sewer unit charge imposed under Article
XIII, a connection fee is due for each additional sewer unit change.
C. All connection fees generated by this section shall be placed in
a nonlapsing fund, to be known as the "Water Pollution Control Facility
Fund," to be used for improvements to or expansion of or replacement
of the existing treatment plant and facilities.
After the building sewer is connected to the public sewer, the
owner of the building sewer shall maintain the building sewer from
the building to the public sewer.