No unauthorized person(s) 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 Village Superintendent or his designee.
There shall be one class of building sewer permit
for residential and commercial service. The owner or his agent shall
make application on a special form furnished by the Incorporated Village
of Ocean Beach. The permit application shall be supplemented by any
plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in
the judgment of the Superintendent. A permit and inspection fee, in
accordance with the fee schedule, shall be paid to the Incorporated
Village of Ocean Beach at the time the application is filed.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the village 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.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the owner and witnessed by the Superintendent, 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 Code[1] or other applicable rules and regulations of the Incorporated
Village of Ocean Beach. In general, only vitrified-clay, asbestoscement
or cast-iron pipe shall be used. In the absence of code provisions
or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth
in appropriate specifications of the Amercian Society for Testing
and Materials and the Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of
Practice, Volume 9, shall apply.
Whenever feasible, the building sewer shall
be brought to the building at an elevation below the first 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 a means approved by the village
and discharged to the public sewer. All such lift facilities shall
be installed at the owner's expense at approved locations and maintained
by the owner whether on public or private property.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts,
foundation drains, areaway drains, sumps or 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[1] or other applicable rules and regulations of the Incorporated
Village of Ocean Beach, or the procedures set forth in appropriate
specifications of the American Society for Testing and Materials and
the Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice, Volume
9. In general, only vitrified-clay, asbestos-cement or cast-iron pipe
shall be utilized. All such connections shall be made gastight and
watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the
prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Village
Superintendent or his designee before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and
testing shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent
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. Sidewalks and other public property disturbed
in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory
to the village.
