No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connection with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining written permits
from both Plumbing Control and the Superintendent.
Each and every plumber will be required to have
a license issued by Plumbing Control before he will be permitted to
do any work in the town insofar as this chapter is concerned.
B.
In either case, a permit application shall be submitted
to the Superintendent. The permit application shall be supplemented
by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent,
in the judgment of the Superintendent. A fee for residential, commercial,
institutional and industrial users, as will be established and modified
from time to time by resolution of the Town of Van Buren Town Board,
shall accompany the application.
C.
Street laterals shall be connected only to a sewer,
unless specifically required by federal, state, county or town regulations
to be connected to a manhole. Connections to existing manholes shall
be made as directed by the Superintendent.
All persons engaged in constructing street laterals,
including making connections to sanitary sewers, shall file a bond
with the Town Clerk to indemnify the Town of Van Buren against loss,
cost, damage or expense sustained or recovered on account of any negligence,
omission or act of the applicant for such a permit, or any of his
or their agents arising or resulting directly or indirectly by reason
of such permit or consent or of any act, construction or excavation
done, made or permitted under authority of such permit or consent.
The bond shall be issued in the amount of $10,000, which amount may
be modified from time to time by resolution of the Town Board. All
bonds shall contain a clause that permits given by the Superintendent
may be revoked at any time for just cause. The recourse of the town
shall not be limited in any way under this subsection.
Before application for the purposes set forth in §§ 149-46 and 149-47 is approved, and before commencing work, the applicant shall file insurance certificates with the Town Clerk. Insurance coverage shall be provided for the types and in the amounts as established below, as may be modified from time to time by resolution of the Town Board.
A.
Workmen's compensation and employer's liability insurance
as required by the laws of the date covering the contractor.
B.
Personal injury liability having limits of not less
than $500,000 each occurrence and $500,000 aggregate (completed operations/products,
personal injury).
C.
Property damage liability having limits of not less
than $500,000 for all damages arising during the life of the contract;
and shall include, but not be limited to, the following designated
hazards:
E.
Business excess liability insurance in the amount
of not less than $2,000,000.
F.
All insurance policies must provide for 15 business
days notice to the Town of Van Buren before cancellation and must
cover all liabilities of the Town of Van Buren and be in a form approved
by the Town of Van Buren Town Board. The town shall be named as an
additional insured.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer to the public sewer system shall
be borne by the owner of the property seeking such action. 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.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction
of a building lateral 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 Plumbing Control or other applicable
rules and regulations of the town, county and state, but in no event
shall the diameter be less than four inches, nor shall the slope of
the pipe be less than 1/4 inch per foot.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall
be brought to the building at an elevation below 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 an approved mechanical means at
the owner's cost and discharged to the building lateral.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any stormwater, cooling water or unpolluted industrial waters to any
sanitary sewer. Swimming pool drains, roof drains, foundation drains,
basement sump pumps, site and surface water drains shall not be connected
to any sanitary sewer.
A.
A separate and independent building lateral shall
be provided for every building requiring sanitary facilities. When,
however, there is a building behind a front building, the second building
may, at the sole discretion of the Superintendent, use the front building's
building lateral, only if there is no other way to provide sanitary
service to the back building. The town shall not assume any obligation
or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such
single connection aforementioned.
B.
New street laterals and/or building laterals shall
not go under buildings or basements. In like fashion, a building shall
not be constructed over an existing lateral; the lateral shall be
relocated after the Superintendent has approved plans showing the
relocation.
When building laterals are to serve multiple
dwelling structures, the building lateral shall be sized in accordance
with the metered water use and with sound professional engineering
judgment.
Where a lateral sewer is to serve a complex of industrial, commercial, institutional or dwelling structures, special design of the building lateral system shall be required. Such lateral sewer shall be connected to the public sewer through a manhole. The Superintendent shall determine if and where this connection to the public sewer is required. If required, a new manhole shall be installed in the public sewer pursuant to §§ 149-40, and the lateral connection made and tested as directed by the Superintendent. The Superintendent may also accept plans which provide for a complex to be served by a single sewer (six inches or larger), provided that each building in the complex is served by a separate lateral discharging to that sewer. Plans and specifications shall be prepared and submitted for approval pursuant to this chapter.
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 Superintendent, 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 Superintendent 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 Superintendent. If required, a new manhole shall be installed in the public sewer pursuant to Article V, and the lateral connection made thereto as directed by the Superintendent.
Existing building laterals may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination by the
Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
The connection from a gas station or car wash
shall provide for a settlement pit so that sand and grit that may
develop from the washing of motor vehicles or thawing of ice and snow
will not be allowed to enter into the sewage disposal system. Discharge
of said waters into the sanitary sewer will be made only upon approval
of Plumbing Control.
A.
Street lateral pipe materials shall be SDR-35 polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sewer pipe and fittings conforming to § 149-36. All pipe shall be suitable for gravity sewer service.
B.
The size and slope of building and street laterals
shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent, but in no event
shall the internal pipe diameter be less than six inches, nor shall
the pipe slope be less than 1/4 inch per foot.
A.
All joints and connections shall be made watertight
and gastight.
B.
Joints for PVC sewer pipe shall follow the manufacturer's
recommendations, using properly designed couplings and rubber gaskets
pursuant to the published information relating thereto, and conforming
to the applicable ASTM specification.
A.
For new sewer extensions, a standard wye fitting and
sufficient one-eighth (forty-five-degree) bend fittings shall be used
at the point of connection of a street lateral to a main sewer. The
wye fittings shall be installed so that flow from the lateral shall
transition smoothly into the flow in the sanitary sewer. No lateral
connection shall be made to the public sewer which permits the flow
into the public sewer from the lateral to enter at right angles. The
inside diameter of the fittings shall be same diameter as the street
lateral inside diameter.
B.
For connecting new street laterals to existing public
sewers, service saddles shall be used. Service saddles shall be cast
iron with elastomeric gasket and stainless steel strap of a type acceptable
to the Superintendent.
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 Superintendent, 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 Superintendent
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 Superintendent.
A.
All excavations required for the installation of a building or street lateral shall be open trench work, unless required by the highway department having authority that installations shall be bored or unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent. Pipe laying and backfilling shall be performed in accordance with § 149-38, except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected by the Superintendent. The depth of cover over the pipe shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost, but in no case shall such depth be less than four feet. Where it is physically impossible to provide cover of four feet, the depth may be reduced to a minimum of two feet and the pipe shall be insulated, as approved by the Superintendent.
B.
When trenches are excavated for the laying of street
lateral pipes, such trenches shall be inspected by the Superintendent.
Before the trenches are backfilled, the person performing such work
shall notify the Superintendent that the street lateral is completed,
and no backfilling of trenches shall begin until approval is obtained
from the Superintendent.
C.
All excavations for constructing laterals shall be
adequately protected with barricades and lights so as to protect the
public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways, pavements and other
public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored
in a manner satisfactory to the Superintendent.
A.
The applicant for the building lateral permit shall
notify Plumbing Control 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 Plumbing Control.
B.
The applicant for the street lateral permit shall
notify the Superintendent when the street lateral is ready for connection
to the sewer. The actual connection shall not be made until inspected
by the Superintendent. All work in the public right-of-way or district
easement shall be performed under the inspection of the Superintendent.
The street lateral shall be tested for infiltration/exfiltration
by:
The street lateral, including the wye and one-eighth-bend
fittings, shall be connected to the main sewer at the time of constructing
the main sewer, for each proposed lot for either immediate or future
development in accordance with this chapter. The location of all lateral
connections shall be indicated on a drawing with a minimum of three
tie lines indicated. Four copies of this drawing, showing the as-built
location of these connections, shall be furnished to the Superintendent.
A refundable deposit shall be placed with the Town of Van Buren to
assure receipt of these as-builts. The deposit shall be placed when
application is made; the amount of the deposit shall be $100 per sheet
of plans showing locations of lateral connections. No sanitary sewer
shall be accepted by the Town of Van Buren until four copies of this
record drawing have been so filed with the Superintendent and the
Superintendent has approved the submitted drawings.
All street laterals are owned by, or shall upon
acceptance by the town become the property of, the district. Any existing
street lateral which, upon examination by the Superintendent, is determined
to be in need of replacement will be replaced with a new street lateral.
The cost of constructing the replacement street lateral shall be at
the district's expense.
It shall be the responsibility of the owner
of a served property to construct and maintain the building lateral
from the building drain to the point of connection to the street lateral.
