No unauthorized person(s) shall uncover, make
any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Superintendent.
[Amended 8-3-1999 by L.L.
No. 2-1999]
There shall be two classes of building sewer
permits for residential and commercial service, and for service to
establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner(s)
or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by
the Village. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans,
specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment
of the Superintendent. A permit and inspection fee for a residential
or commercial building sewer permit and for an industrial building
sewer permit, both set from time to time by resolution of the Village
Board of Trustees, shall be paid to the Village at the time the application
is filed.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner(s).
The owner(s) shall indemnify the Village from any loss or damage that
may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the
building sewer.
A separate and independent building server shall
be provided for every building; except where one building stands at
the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available
or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley,
court, yard or driveway, the front building may be extended to the
rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but
the Village does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility
for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection
aforementioned.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this Part 1.
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 Building and Plumbing Code or other
applicable rules and regulations of the Village. In the absence of
code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual
of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
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 server, sanitary sewage carried by such
building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged
to the building sewer.
No person(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts,
foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff
or groundwater to a building server or building drain which in turn
is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer, unless
such connection is approved by the Superintendent for purposes of
disposal of polluted surface drainage.
The connections of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and
Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village,
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM
and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall
be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any
deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved
by the Superintendent before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and
testing shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent
or his representative.
All excavations for building sewer installation
shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect
the public from hazards. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public
property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in
a manner satisfactory to the Village.