A.
All main sewers constructed under contract with the
Town of Cortlandt shall meet the requirements of the specifications.
B.
All main sewers constructed by any person, including
a municipally owned public utility, shall meet the requirements of
specifications and ordinances of the Town of Cortlandt.
A.
All house connection sewers from the main sewer to
the property line or easement line constructed under contract with
the town shall meet the requirements of specifications approved by
the town.
B.
All house connection sewers from the main sewer to
the property line or easement line constructed by any person, including
a municipally owned public utility, shall meet the requirements of
specifications approved by the town.
The following requirements shall apply to existing
house connection sewers:
A.
If the construction of a new house connection sewer
on a lot is to include any portion of any existing house connection
sewer on such lot, such construction shall be included and accepted
only when it meets all the requirements for new house connection sewers
and is of a material acceptable to the Engineer and Building Inspector.
B.
When it is found necessary to replace any portion
of an existing house connection sewer system between the street curb
and lot line, all that portion of the house connection sewer between
these limits shall be replaced to meet the requirements for new house
connection sewers.
C.
When it is found necessary to replace any portion
of an existing house connection sewer between the curb and public
sewer, all that portion of the house connection sewer between these
limits shall be replaced to meet the requirements for new house connection
sewers.
A.
All house connection sewers which are to be connected
to a trunk sewer shall include a running trap, the type and location
of which shall meet the approval of the Engineer.
B.
When necessary, in the opinion of the Engineer or
Building Inspector, house connection sewers which are to be connected
to a trunk sewer or main sewer shall include a running trap, the type
and location of which shall meet the approval of the Engineer or Building
Inspector.
All house connection sewers shall be laid by
the most direct route feasible, free of pinched joints, changes of
grade or unnecessary bends or fittings.
All excavations shall have sufficient width
to allow proper workmanship and permit adequate inspection and shall
be supported in the proper manner. Sheet piling and other timbers
shall be withdrawn in such a manner as to prevent caving of the walls
of the excavation or disturbance of the sewer pipe.
At any point in a main sewer or trunk line sewer
where it is necessary to provide new sewage service, no vitrified
clay Y- or T-saddle will be permitted. Entrance into the main sewer
or trunk sewer will be constructed by first cutting the entrance to
the main sewer or trunk sewer and then inserting a short piece of
four- or six-inch-diameter cast-iron pipe, with bell on one end, into
the aforedescribed entrance in such a manner so as not to protrude
beyond the inside face of said trunk or main sewer. The connecting
pipe shall be so placed as to project upward at an angle of approximately
forty-five degrees (45º) from the horizontal and, in addition,
shall be so placed as to direct the flow of the house connection sewage
downstream into the main or trunk sewer. The only method by which
a connection shall be made into the top of the main or trunk sewer
is if said connection is constructed in accordance with the standard
plan entitled "Standard Chimney Pipe" and in accordance with the aforementioned
connection method. It is hereby further stipulated that all Y-connections
or saddles shall conform to the standard plan entitled "Standard Saddle
Connection." After the short section of connecting pipe is in place,
an embedment of cement concrete shall be placed under and around the
main line sewer pipe and connecting pipe as required for a standard
chimney pipe in accordance with the standard plan. The inside of the
main or trunk sewer shall be checked to see there is no protruding
cement at the joint between the pipe and saddle.
No person shall connect or cause to be connected
any sewer which has been or may hereafter be constructed in any street,
highway, alley, right-of-way or other public place prior to the dedication
and acceptance of such street, alley or right-of-way with any public
sewer of the town, unless such sewer first mentioned shall have been
laid under the supervision and/or to the satisfaction of the Engineer
and in accordance with all provisions of this chapter.
A.
No connection from any building or other structure
shall hereafter be made to any public sewer if such connection or
any portion thereof be in, under or upon any lot other than the lot
on which such building or structure is located, except an apartment
house or an auto trailer court.
B.
If a lot or parcel of land requiring a sewer connection
is so situated that access to a public sewer is not possible except
across some other lot or parcel of land, a sewer connection may be
placed in a recorded public easement which includes the right to lay
and maintain such connection and is appurtenant to the lot or parcel
of land to be served by such sewer connection.
C.
When a public sewer is available, every new building
or existing building having a new plumbing system installed shall
have an independent house connection sewer connecting to the public
sewer, except that where one building stands in the rear of another
building on an interior lot, a single house connection sewer may be
used for connecting said buildings to the public sewer.
No person shall connect or cause to be connected
any cesspool or septic tank to any public sewer or to any house connection
sewer leading thereto.
All industrial liquid waste pretreatment plants,
grease interceptors, sand interceptors, sewage treatment plants, sewage
pumping plants or ejectors, septic tanks, cesspools, dry wells, dilution
chambers and neutralization tanks shall be constructed in accordance
with the Plumbing Code[1] unless otherwise provided in this chapter.
