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 Commissioner.
A. 
The plumbing of any new or substantially rehabilitated building shall be so constructed as to keep all stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof and surface runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, and noncontact industrial process water separate from sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, and from the building sewer lateral.
B. 
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 sewer.
C. 
The City shall require an owner to eliminate a source of private infiltration or inflow to the sanitary sewer system or the combined sewer system.
A. 
Prior to activating water service, every new building sewer lateral shall be conformance tested by the City, or by the owner or his/her designee in the presence of a DPW and/or Building Inspector, to establish that the building sewer lateral is properly connected to the City's wastewater system. The DPW may conduct conformance testing of an existing building's wastewater system to establish that it is properly connected to the City's wastewater system. The City may require the owner forthwith to eliminate a connection from a building sewer lateral or a building combined sewer lateral to a stormwater drain (also referred to as an "illicit or illegal connection") at the owner's expense.
B. 
Where separate sanitary sewers and stormwater drains exist, the DPW may also conformance test, or require the owner to conformance test in the presence of a DPW inspector, a new or existing building stormwater drain lateral to establish that the building stormwater drain lateral is properly connected to the City's stormwater system. The City may also require the owner forthwith to eliminate a connection from a building stormwater drain lateral to a sanitary sewer at the owner's expense.
A. 
All new requests for sewer main extensions shall be submitted and approved by the Commissioner of Public Works. All costs associated with this work shall be paid for by the applicant and the costs may include, but are not limited to, engineering plans stamped by a professional engineer, pipe, manholes and appurtenances.
B. 
Sewer main pipe extensions may become the property of the City upon acceptance by the Commissioner or the City Council.
C. 
No connection shall be made to any public-owned sewer main or to any private main without prior written authorization by issuance of a written sewer connection permit from the Commissioner or his or her designee.
D. 
Where the DPW elects to maintain ownership of a main pipe on private property, the customer shall grant the Sewer Division an easement sufficient to provide access by the DPW to the main pipe and City-owned appurtenances for maintenance, repairs, replacement and reconstruction as needed and required by the determination of the Commissioner or his or her designee.
E. 
The DPW has the right to refuse or disallow the installation of a main pipe extension where it determines that the service demand does not warrant the cost of installation, where the extension will tend in any way to constitute discrimination against other sewer customers or where the Commissioner determines that the extension is not justified.