A.
No unauthorized person 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 Commissioners.
B.
Any person proposing a new discharge into the system
or a substantial change in the volume or character of pollutants that
are being discharged into the system shall notify the Board of Sewer
Commissioners at least 45 days prior to the proposed change or connection.
There shall two classes of building sewer permits:
for residential and commercial service and for service to establishments
producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent
shall make application on a special form furnished by the Town. The
permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications
or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Commissioners.
All costs and expense incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the Town from any loss of damage that may
directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building
sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Commissioners, to meet all requirements of this regulation.
Changes, additions and alterations to existing sewer connections,
for whatever purposes, shall require a permit.
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 Town. In the absence of code
provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society for
Testing Materials 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 sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such
building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged
to the building sewer.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts,
exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface
runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which
in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
The connection 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 Town,
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing Materials and the WPCF Manual of Practice No.
9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any
deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved
by the Commissioners before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Commissioners when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall
be made under the supervision of the Commissioners or their representative.
All 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 Town.
