After approval of a section or sections of the main sewer and house sewer laterals, the Sewer Engineer or Township Engineer shall file a complete set of house connection maps.
Before any portion of the house drain outside of the house is connected to the house connection, the owner shall prove to the satisfaction of the Plumbing Inspector that it is clean and conforms in every respect to the regulations or ordinances of the Division of Health, and before any portion of the house connection is connected to the house sewer lateral, the Plumbing Inspector shall be satisfied that the house connection is in good order and conforms in every respect to the requirements for construction thereof.
A. 
When installing the house connection, the trenching shall be dug in a careful manner and properly sheathed where required. The excavated materials shall be piled in a compact heap, so placed as to cause the least possible inconvenience to the public. Proper barricades and lights must be maintained around the trench to guard against accidents. Extreme care shall be taken to prevent any dirt, stones or other undesirable material from entering the public sewer system through the house sewer lateral during these operations.
B. 
In backfilling, the material for the two feet immediately over the pipe shall be selected so it contains no stones. All backfill material for the trench shall be placed by tamping in eight-inch layers so as to avoid any settlement. When the trench has been filled to the proper height, the surface material shall be replaced and heavily tamped and rolled.
C. 
Where the trench is excavated in rock, the rock must be carefully excavated to a depth of six inches below the grade line of the sewer and the trench brought to the proper elevation with gravel or other material satisfactory to the Plumbing Inspector. The remainder of the trench must be backfilled with suitable material.
D. 
Nothing in this section shall be construed as abrogating any of the existing requirements of the Township relating to the excavation and backfilling of trenches, but the requirements herein contained shall be in addition thereto.
E. 
Where subsoil conditions are bad, such special precaution must be taken to secure a watertight job as may be directed by the Plumbing Inspector.
Where connection is made between the house connection outside of the building and the house sewer lateral, a long radius bend shall be appropriately installed at this connection along with a cleanout as required by the Plumbing Code.[1] This connection shall be subject to the approval of the Plumbing Inspector, who shall be given ample notice prior to such work.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 152, Plumbing.
The Plumbing Inspector may apply any appropriate test to the pipes, and the plumber and contractor, at their own expense, shall furnish all necessary tools, labor, materials and assistants for such tests and shall remove or repair any defective materials when so ordered by the Inspector.
Each contractor or other person performing work on private property for the purpose of connection from the house sewer lateral to the house drain onto private property shall be governed by the terms of the regulations or ordinances of the Division of Health.