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 town.
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 town. The permit application shall be supplemented
by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in
the judgment of the Town Administrator/Public Works Director. A permit and
inspection fee for a residential or commercial building sewer permit and for
an industrial building sewer permit shall be established by resolution of
the Mayor and Council and paid to the town at the time the application is
filed.
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 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 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 building sewer from
the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered
as one building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only
when they are found, on examination and test by the Town Administrator/Public
Works Director, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
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 Codes 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 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 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 Codes or other applicable
rules and regulations of the town 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. Any deviation from the
prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Town Administrator/Public
Works Director before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Town Administrator/Public
Works Director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection
to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of
the Town Administrator/Public Works Director or his 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.