A.
No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or
opening into, use, alter or disturb any wastewater sewer or a storm
sewer without first obtaining a written permit from the Authority.
B.
Classes of permits.
(2)
In all cases, the owner shall make application for a permit to connect
to the Authority's wastewater facilities on a special form furnished
by the Authority. The permit application shall be supplemented by
wastewater information required to administer this chapter. A permit
and inspection fee for each class shall be in accordance with the
Authority's latest edition of user rates resolution and shall be paid
to the Authority at the time the application is filed.
C.
Connections to a storm sewer shall be subject to a permit and inspection
fee in accordance with the Authority's latest edition of user rates
resolution and shall be paid to the Authority at the time the application
is filed. Such connections shall be subject to the provisions of this
chapter and the approval of the Authority.
The costs and expenses incidental to the building wastewater
sewer installation and connection to the Authority's wastewater mains
or laterals shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify
the Authority from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly
be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
A separate and independent building wastewater sewer shall be
provided for every building, except where one building stands at the
rear of another on an interior sewer is available or can be constructed
to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court yard or driveway,
the building sewer serving the front building may be extended to the
rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer. The
Authority assumes no obligation or responsibility for damage caused
by or resulting from any single building sewer which serves two buildings.
Existing building sewers may be used for connection of new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the Authority,
to meet the requirements of this chapter.
The size, slope, alignment, construction materials, trench excavation
and backfill methods, pipe placement, jointing and testing methods
used in the construction and installation of a building sewer shall
conform to the building and plumbing code or the ordinance on streets
and sidewalks of the borough[1] or the latest edition of the sanitary sewer regulations
of the Authority. A copy of these regulations can be obtained from
the Authority. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification
thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of the ASTM and WPCF shall apply.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Industrial Wastewater Permit Application (Appendix 1), is included at the end of this chapter.
Whenever practicable, the building sewer shall be brought to
a building at an elevation below the basement floor. In buildings
in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the
Authority's wastewater sewer, wastewater carried by such building
drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to a building
sewer draining to the Authority's sewer.
No person shall connect roof, foundation, areaway, parking lot,
roadway, cellar sump pump or other surface runoff or groundwater drains
to any sewer which is connected to a wastewater treatment facility.
These drains shall discharge to natural outlets or storm sewers.
A.
The connection of a building sewer into a wastewater sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code of the
borough,[1] the lastest edition of the sanitary sewer regulations
of the Authority, regulations of the State of New Jersey, or the procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM or the WPCF. The
connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by
proper testing. Any deviation from the pre-scribed procedures and
materials must be approved in writing by the Authority before installation.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Industrial Wastewater Permit Application (Appendix 1), is included at the end of this chapter.
B.
The connection of a surface runoff or groundwater drain to a storm
sewer or natural outlet designed to transport surface runoff or groundwater
drainage shall conform to the requirements of the applicable building
code or other applicable requirements of the borough or Authority.
The applicant for a building sewer or other drainage connection
permit shall notify the Authority when such sewer or drainage connection
is ready for inspection prior to its connection to the Authority's
facilities or the borough's storm sewer. Such connection and testing
as deemed necessary by the Authority shall be made under the supervision
of the Authority or its authorized representative.
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 Authority and in accordance with the latest edition of the
sanitary sewer regulations of the Authority and in accordance with
the Streets and Sidewalks Ordinance of the borough.[1] The borough ordinance requires that the street opening
permit be acquired prior to commencing the work.
The Authority shall not issue a permit for any class of connection
to the Authority's wastewater sewers or wastewater treatment facilities
unless there is sufficient capacity, not legally committed to other
users, in the wastewater sewers and treatment facilities to convey
and adequately treat the quantity of wastewater which the requested
connection will add to the system. The Authority may permit such a
connection if there are legally binding commitments to provide the
needed capacity.
The property owner shall be responsible for the maintenance
and cost of construction of the building wastewater sewer from the
point of origin to the Authority-owned main or lateral, whichever
comes first. The permit cost for opening a borough street shall be
borne by the property owner and that portion of cost incurred in obtaining
a permit to open a state highway which exceeds the cost of obtaining
a borough street opening permit shall be reimbursed to the property
owner by the Authority upon a showing of the actual amount paid.
