No person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening
into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance without
first obtaining a written permit from the Public Works Director.
[Amended 3-8-2004 by Ord.
No. 1-2004]
A.
All costs and expenses incident
to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be
borne by the owner.
B.
The owner shall indemnify the
Town for any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned
by the installation of the building sewer, if the damage or loss is
a result of negligence on the part of the owner.
C.
Construction and extensions of
the Town drains and sanitary sewer system; assessments and deferred
payments.
(1)
The Town Council may at any
time direct the construction of or extensions to the Town's drains
and sanitary sewer system wherever it is determined necessary for
public convenience, or health, safety, or welfare such as to abate
pollution or to serve presently undeveloped areas of the Town, or
for the Town's general betterment.
(2)
The Town of Winslow Tax Assessor
and the Town of Winslow Tax Collector are authorized to assess and
collect against the owner of the land or person in possession, or
against whom the taxes on the land are assessed, on an installment
basis over a period not exceeding 10 years; if so authorized by the
Town Council, that portion of the sum not exceeding the benefit the
Town Council considers just and equitable towards defraying the costs
of constructing and completing public drains or sewer abutting such
lots and parcels of land, together with any sewage disposal units
and appurtenances necessary thereto, pursuant to the terms, conditions,
limitations, guidelines and requirements of Title 30-A M.R.S.A. §§ 3441
through 3445, as amended. The authority to assess and collect any
installments due in a given year owed by any person so assessed shall
be based on a certified list filed by the Town Council with the Tax
Collector. Assessments for such costs shall include but not be limited
to all costs of construction, land acquisition, engineering, administration
and interest paid on project financing, and may be assessed pro rata
to reflect the ratio of frontage along the sewer line of each property
owner to the total frontage of all abutters along the sewer construction
project.
(3)
Payments of assessments against
such abutting properties as determined by the Town Council shall not
be deferred except in the event that the owner or person assessed
for any such abutting property benefited by the establishment of a
new public drain or sewer is unwilling or unable to pay his or her
share of the allocated portion of the construction costs at the time
of assessment, whereby payment of the assessment may be deferred by
written agreement approved by the Town Council, between the Town and
the affected property owner or person assessed for a period of not
more than 10 years on such conditions as may be authorized under 30-A
M.R.S.A. § 3444, as amended.
A separate and independent sewer shall be provided for every
building. The owner shall be required to obtain written permission
before constructing or causing to be constructed a system that connects
building sewers from two or more separate buildings on one or more
lots, from the Public Works Director.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the Public Works
Director, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
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 state plumbing code and the applicable regulations
of the Town. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification
thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
The building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation
below the basement floor. In any building in which the sanitary outlet
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.
A.
The connection of the building
sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the applicable regulations
of the Town and the state plumbing code.
B.
All such connections shall be
made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures
and materials shall be approved by the Public Works Director before
installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
Public Works Director when the building sewer is ready for inspection
and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under
the supervision of the Public Works Director or his representative.
A.
When any building sewer is to
serve a school, hospital or similar institution or public building,
or is to serve a complex of industrial or commercial buildings, or
which, in the opinion of the Public Works Director will receive sewage
or industrial wastes of such volume or character that frequent maintenance
of the building sewer is anticipated, then such building sewer shall
be connected to the public sewer through a manhole. The Public Works
Director shall determine if and where this type of connection to the
public sewer is required. Connections to existing manholes shall be
made as directed by the Public Works Director.
B.
If required, a new manhole shall
be installed in the public sewer and the building sewer connection
made thereto as directed by the Public Works Director.
