No person shall uncover, make any connections
with or opening into or use, alter, disturb or discharge into any
public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written
permit from the Administrator or Town Board where designated.
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
or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by
the Administrator. The permit application shall be accompanied by
plans, profiles, specifications or other information considered pertinent
by the Administrator. All permit applications for service to establishments
producing industrial wastes shall be subject to Town Board approval
after a public hearing. A permit and inspection fee for a residential
or commercial building sewer permit or for an industrial building
sewer permit in the amount prescribed in a fee schedule adopted by
the Town Board shall be paid to that sewer district in which the property
is located at the time that the application is filed.
All costs and expenses in installing and connecting
a public sewage system or building sewer to the Town sewage system
shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify that sewer
district in which the property is located for any loss or damage that
might be occasioned by the installation and connection of such public
sewage system or building sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building, except where one building stands at
the rear of another on a separate interior lot and no sewer is available
or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley,
court, yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building
may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one
building sewer; but each shall be considered a separate unit for the
purpose of sewage service charges.
Existing building sewers may be used in conjunction with new buildings only when they are found, upon inspection and testing by the Administrator, to meet all requirements of this Part
1 and any other specifications adopted by the Administrator.
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, sewage carried by such building
drain shall be lifted by a method approved by the Administrator and
discharged to a gravity-flow building sewer.
No person shall make a 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 to a public sewer.
The applicant for the connection of any building
sewer to a public sewage system owned or maintained by any sewer district
shall notify the Administrator when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. In no case shall any
underground portions of the building sewer be covered or connection
to the public sewer made without the approval and/or supervision of
the Administrator or his representative. Permission to activate the
building sewer will be given only after satisfactory final inspection
has been made and approval given by the Administrator.
Trench water will not be allowed to enter the
public sewer unless specifically authorized by the Administrator.
The building sewer trench shall be completely dewatered before the
tap is made into the public sewer system.
All excavations for building sewer excavations
shall comply with all federal, state and local safety regulations
and 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 work shall be restored
in a manner satisfactory to the Administrator and appropriate municipal
authorities.
Building sewers shall be maintained, serviced and repaired by the owner of the property served from the building drain to a point within one foot of the Y in the street, if connected to a public sewer in a public right-of-way, and to within two feet of the public sewer located in an easement across private property. In the event that a property is unable to discharge sewage into the public sewer, it will be presumed that the fault is in the private building sewer unless contrary facts are in evidence. Evidence of willful damage to a building sewer being served by a public sewer shall be considered a violation of this Part
1.
In any sewer district where public septic tanks
are used as a part of the treatment and disposal process, such septic
tanks shall be pumped out a minimum of every four years in a staggered
program such that at least 25% are pumped out every year. Inspection
of septic tanks, both for their sludge content and their physical
condition and condition of appurtenances, shall be performed annually.
Annual inspection will be used to determine the need, if any, for
more frequent pumping of certain tanks. The landowner shall be notified
by written communication of the Town's intent to enter upon the property
for the purpose of monitoring and/or pumping of septic tank and/or
appurtenances. Such notice shall give the landowner no less than two
weeks' notice of such intent and shall indicate, to the extent practicable,
the specific date or dates of such entrance upon the property.
Before any building whose building sewer is
connected to a public sewer is demolished, the owner thereof shall
conform with the requirements established by the Administrator. The
cutoff or plugging of the building sewer shall be done with the permission
and under the supervision of the Administrator.