A.
No person shall uncover, make any connections with,
use, alter, or disturb any wastewater sewer or a storm sewer without
first obtaining a written permit from the Manager.
B.
Permit types.
(2)
In all cases, the owner shall make application for
a permit to connect to the Town's treatment works on a form furnished
by the Town. The permit application shall be supplemented by wastewater
information required to administer this chapter. A permit and inspection
fee for a Class I or a Class II connection permit shall be paid at
the time the application is filed.
C.
Connections to a storm sewer shall be subject to a
permit and inspection of fee of $25. Such connections shall be subject
to provisions of this chapter and the approval of the Manager.
The costs and expenses incidental to the building
sewer installation and connection to the Town's treatment works shall
be borne by the owner. 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.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building, except that, 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, courtyard, or driveway, the building sewer serving the front
building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered
as one building sewer. The Town assumes no obligation or responsibility
for damage caused by or resulting from any single building sewer which
serves two buildings.
Existing building sewers may be used for connection
of new buildings only when they are found, on examination and testing
by the Manager, to meet the requirements of this chapter.
The size, slope, alignment, construction materials,
trench excavation and backfill methods, pipe placement, jointing and
testing methods used in the construction and installation of a building
sewer shall conform to the building and plumbing code or other applicable
requirements of the Town. In the absence of code provisions or in
amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate
specifications of the ASTM and WPCF shall apply.
Whenever practicable, the building sewer shall
be brought to a building at an elevation below the basement floor.
In buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity
flow to the Town's treatment works, wastewater carried by such building
drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to a building
sewer draining to the Town sewer.
A.
No person shall connect roof, foundation, areaway, parking lot, roadway, or other surface runoff or groundwater drains to any sewer which is connected to a treatment works unless such connection is authorized in writing by the Manager. The connection of such drains shall conform to codes specified in § 132-21 or as specified by the Manager as a condition of approval of such connection.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
The connection of a building sewer into a treatment
works shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing
code or other applicable requirements of the Town, or the procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the Sewage Collection and
Treatment Regulations, Uniform Building Code of Virginia, and American
Society of Testing Materials. The connections shall be made gastight
and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from
the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved, in writing,
by the Manager before installation.
The applicant for a building sewer or other
drainage connection permit shall notify the Manager when such sewer
or drainage connection is ready for inspection prior to its connection
to the Town's treatment works. Such connection inspection and testing
as deemed necessary by the Manager shall be made by the Manager or
designee.
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.
The Manager shall not issue a permit for any
class of connection to the Town's treatment works or treatment facilities
unless there is sufficient capacity, not legally committed to other
users, in the treatment works and treatment facilities to convey and
adequately treat the quantity of wastewater which the requested connection
will add to the treatment works or treatment facility. The Manager
may permit such a connection if there are legally binding commitments
to provide the needed capacity.
