No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any direct connection
with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Town of
Webster.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, cellar drains, garage drains, subsurface drainage, excessive infiltration, cooling water or unpolluted industrial waters to any sanitary sewer. Swimming pool drains shall not be connected to any sanitary sewer, although backwash from swimming pool filters may be connected by permit. (See Article
VII prohibiting inflow.)
A. For buildings located within
the Town-Wide Sewer District, an application for a sewer connection
permit shall be submitted to the Town of Webster Building Division.
The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications,
insurance, indemnification or other information considered pertinent,
in the judgment of the Commissioner of Public Works or his/her division
head, agent or designee. When connecting to Town sewers, an application
shall be accompanied by fees for each connection which shall be determined
by the Town of Webster Sewer Department and Webster Town Board. No
permit granted by the Town of Webster shall be construed to allow
any interference or disturbance of any state, county, Town or village
highways, roads or rights-of-way unless the permit shall expressly
so provide. No permit shall be granted for such interference or disturbance
of said areas or for the excavation for sewer purposes in any public
street or public place unless the applicant shall have first obtained
from the Highway Department having jurisdiction a permit which will
satisfy the requirements of said Department. Any permit fee, expense
of bonding or other costs related to the issuance of a permit for
opening any street or pavement shall be paid by the applicant. No
permit shall be deemed to authorize anything not stated in the application
therefor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B. The permit shall be kept at the
site of work and during construction shall be available for inspection
by any duly authorized agent of the Town of Webster.
C. Connections made to the Town's sewers without a permit will be considered to be illegal connections and as such will be subject to fines in accordance with the Town of Webster's enforcement rules. Illegal connections may be plugged, removed, or modified by the Town at the owner's expense. In addition, a commercial/nonresidential wastewater questionnaire must be submitted by all nonresidential users within the Town to determine if a wastewater discharge permit and fees will be required in accordance with §
257-89.
A. A separate and independent street
lateral and building lateral shall be provided for every tax lot.
The Town of Webster does not and will not assume any obligation or
responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single
connection for two buildings on the same tax lot. Laterals and private
sewers serving more than one building must be sized adequately by
a licensed plumber or engineer. If more than one building on a tax
lot is connected to the same lateral and that lot is subsequently
subdivided, separate laterals must be constructed for each new lot,
with easements being provided for any lateral from one lot which passes
through another lot. When, however, there is a building behind a front
building, the second building may use the front building's lateral,
if there is no other way to provide sanitary service to the back building.
B. A building shall not be constructed
over an existing lateral; the lateral shall be relocated after the
Commissioner of Public Works and/or Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent
of Sewers has approved plans showing the relocation.
When a sewer lateral is to serve a multiple dwelling structure,
the lateral shall be sized in accordance with the metered or estimated
water use, using sound professional engineering judgment.
Where a private sewer is to serve a complex of industrial, commercial,
institutional, or dwelling structures, special design of the private
sewer system to which laterals shall be constructed for each of these
structures shall be required. These sewers shall be sized in accordance
with metered or estimated water use, using sound professional engineering
judgment. Such lateral sewers shall be connected to the public sewer
through a manhole. The Commissioner of Public Works and/or Chief Plant
Operator and/or Superintendent of Sewers shall determine where this
connection to the public sewer is required. The new sewers and manholes
shall be installed and tested in accordance with this chapter.
A. For buildings located outside
the Town of Webster's Town-Wide Sewer District from which owners request
to connect to the Town's sewers, a permit must be obtained which shall
be supplemented by any plans, specifications, insurance, indemnification,
or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Commissioner
of Public Works and/or Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent
of Sewers. The application must be accompanied by:
(1) A resolution from the jurisdiction
in which the building is located which approves the hookup of sewers
from that property to the Town of Webster sewer system.
(2) A permit and entrance fee per connected unit, or as otherwise periodically set by a resolution of the Webster Town Board fee schedule. (This connection fee does not include the fee required for issuance of a wastewater discharge permit in accordance with §
257-89.).
(3) An executed copy of a covenant
agreeing to abide by rules, laws and regulations of the Town of Webster
and this chapter as it may be amended, and to pay charges for annual
operations and maintenance and capital charges.
B. All work to be done, as well
as the contractor to perform the work, must be approved by the jurisdiction
which is responsible for overseeing the construction of the lateral.
All rules and regulations governing a sewer hookup to the Town of
Webster's sanitary sewers shall be followed.
Dry sewers shall be designed and installed in accordance with
this chapter.
Existing building laterals may be used in connection with new
buildings only when they are found, on examination by the Commissioner
of Public Works and/or Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent
of Sewers, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
See design criteria and requirements for the Town of Webster.
The location of all lateral connections shall be indicated on
a drawing, and two copies of this drawing, showing the as-built location
and elevations of these connections, shall be furnished to the Commissioner
of Public Works and/or the Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent
of Sewers as applicable. No sanitary sewer shall be accepted by the
Town of Webster nor shall any sewage be discharged from them until
four copies of this record drawing have been so filed and the Commissioner
of Public Works and/or Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent
of Sewers has approved the submitted drawings for the Town.
When any street lateral is to serve a school, hospital, or similar institution, or public housing, or is to serve a complex of industrial or commercial buildings, or which, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Public Works and/or Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent of Sewers, will receive wastewater or industrial wastes of such volume or character that frequent maintenance of said building or street lateral is anticipated, then such street lateral shall be connected to the public sewer through a manhole. The Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent of Sewers/Commissioner of Public Works as applicable 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 Commissioner of Public Works and/or Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent of Sewers as applicable. If required, a new manhole shall be installed in the public sewer pursuant to §§
257-32 and
257-100, and the lateral connection shall be made thereto as directed by the authority as applicable.
Whenever possible, the building lateral shall be brought to
the building at an elevation below the basement floor. The ends of
all building or street laterals which are not connected to the interior
plumbing of the building for any reason shall be sealed against infiltration
by a suitable stopper or plug or by other approved means.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit
gravity flow to the public sewer, wastewater carried by such drain
shall be lifted by mechanical means and discharged to the building
lateral, on approval of the Commissioner of Public Works and/or Chief
Plant Operator and/or Superintendent of Sewers.
A. The connection of the building lateral to an existing street lateral shall be made at the property or easement line. Except as provided under §
257-26, if a street lateral has not previously been provided, the street lateral will be constructed from the existing public sewer to the property line by a licensed plumber, at the owner's expense, and after Sewer Department and Town Board approval. The street lateral shall be installed with a properly sealed and covered cleanout to grade, per the Town of Webster design and criteria specifications.
B. The cost of constructing the
street lateral from the existing public sewer to the property or easement
line shall be at the property owner's expense; all subsequent costs
and expense incidental to the installation and connection of the building
lateral shall also be borne by the owner.
C. The property owner shall indemnify
the Town of Webster from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly
be occasioned by the installation of the building lateral.
D. It shall be the responsibility
of the property owner to maintain, repair, or replace the building
lateral, as needed.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
If, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Public Works, and/or
the Chief Plant Operator and/or Superintendent of Sewers, it is determined
that a building lateral without a property line cleanout needs repair
or replacement, the Town may instruct the property owner to install
a cleanout at the property line, at the property owner's expense,
such that the street lateral can be maintained independently of the
building lateral.
The applicant for the building lateral permit shall notify the
Sewer Department when the building lateral is ready for inspection
and connection is to be made to the street lateral. The connection
shall be made under the supervision of the Sewer Department.
When trenches are excavated for the laying of building lateral
pipes or for laying of street lateral pipes, such trenches are to
be backfilled, the person performing such work shall notify the Sewer
Department when the laying of the building lateral is completed, and
no backfilling of trenches shall begin until inspection approval is
obtained from the Sewer Department.
For all buildings that are demolished, the laterals must be
capped as per Town of Webster design and criteria requirements. For
failure to do so correctly, the Town has the right to charge back
the property owner for any damages that are incurred.
All excavations for constructing building laterals shall be
adequately protected 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 Town of Webster.