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 Water Pollution Control Authority.
A permit must be obtained from the Authority before any person shall
make any excavation for or construct, install, lay, repair, alter, abandon
or remove any sewer, sewer connection or appurtenance thereof in a public
street or private lands within the Village of Glasgo, which sewer is in any
way connected to or which discharges into any public sewer of the Village
of Glasgo or is intended at some future time to be so connected or to so discharge.
The permit application shall be supplemented by a building sewer plan(s),
specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of
the Water Pollution Control Authority. A permit application and inspection
fee of $2 per dwelling unit for a sewer permit shall be paid to the Water
Pollution Control Authority at the time the application is filed.
All costs and expenses 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.
The contractor shall furnish the information requested
herein by the Water Pollution Control Authority before installing or doing
any work on building sewers and shall hold a valid license appropriate to
the work being done as required by the State of Connecticut Occupational Licensing
Boards.
B.
The contractor shall be protected by and shall pay the
premium on policies of insurance coverage for public liability, insuring him
against all liability to persons outside of his employ. As a minimum, liability
coverage shall be $250,000 per person, $500,000 in total, per occurrence for
bodily injury and $25,000 per any one unit of property, $50,000 in total,
for all damage to property per occurrence, said policies to be insured by
an insurance company licensed in the State of Connecticut. Special coverage
for blasting shall be provided when blasting will be performed. All insurance
policies shall designate the Town of Griswold, the Water Pollution Control
Authority and its agents as assureds. The contractor shall also carry workers'
compensation insurance in the amount of statutory limits. Certificates of
insurance shall be provided to the Water Pollution Control Authority.
All work performed under the provisions of these rules shall be subject
to inspection by authorized representatives of the Water Pollution Control
Authority. The contractor shall schedule his work so that inspections can
be made during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. weekdays. Arrangements
shall be made in advance with the Water Pollution Control Authority when inspections
are to be made outside the above hours, and the contractor shall pay for any
overtime inspection costs. It is the responsibility of the contractor to notify
the Water Pollution Control Authority when inspections are to be made. Inspections
will be scheduled at the contractor's convenience, as far as possible
consistent with inspections or work of other contractors.
Work on building sewers shall proceed from the sewer toward the structure
involved.
Trenching shall proceed in accordance with good practice. The trench
shall be of ample width at the bottom to accommodate the pipe to be placed.
When sheeting is necessary to ensure proper installation and safety
of personnel, the public or property, the contractor shall furnish and place
such sheeting in accordance with good practice.
Where water is encountered in a trench, sufficient sumps shall be constructed
and adequate pumping equipment made available so that the installation of
any building sewer or appurtenance shall be done in the dry. In no event shall
water be allowed to enter the sewer or building sewer from the trench.
If at any time during excavation the material being excavated is in
the opinion of an inspector not suitable for backfill, such material shall
be removed from the site. Unsatisfactory material shall include but not limited
to boulders, clay, muck and frozen ground.
The size, slope, alignment and 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 Town of Griswold.
In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials
and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society
for Testing Materials and the Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of
Practice No. 9 shall apply.
No building sewer shall be constructed within 25 feet of a water supply
well. If a building sewer is constructed within 25 to 75 feet of a water supply
well, it shall be constructed of extra-heavy cast-iron pipe (ASTM 74-69) with
leaded joints, ductile iron or PVC (SDR 35), whose infiltration/exfiltration
rate shall not exceed 25 gallons per diameter per mile per day.
Each sewer shall first be connected to the public sewer or the building
sewer which has been constructed to the owner's curbline and then be
extended toward the structure to be served.
All pipe must be cleaned before placing.
Changes in alignment shall be made only with properly curved fittings.
Fittings with bends greater than one-eighth (1/8) shall not be used.
Cleanouts or manholes shall be installed at no greater than three-hundred-foot
intervals in long sewers.
All joints shall be properly made in the manner recommended by the manufacturer
of the pipe being used to eliminate all sources of leakage.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Water Pollution
Control Authority 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 Water Pollution Control Authority or its representative. Under no circumstances
shall backfill be permitted around and over the building sewer pipe until
the pipe, joints, alignment, elevations and workmanship have been inspected,
tested and approved by the inspector.
Each installed building sewer shall be covered with hand-placed sand
or gravel approved by the inspector, to a depth of at least one foot over
the pipe, prior to backfilling the remainder of the trench.
The contractor shall be responsible for the satisfactory compaction
of the backfill material so as to avoid excessive future settlement.
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.
At the time of installing the building sewer it shall be the responsibility
of the contractor to investigate the existing plumbing and disconnect all
unauthorized connections. Roof drains, yard drains, cellar drains, cooling
water and all other sources of water other than sanitary sewage cannot be
accepted into Town sanitary sewers and must be disposed of by means approved
by others. The contractor shall be prepared to demonstrate to the inspector
that all such unauthorized connections have been properly diverted.
Failure of a contractor to comply with any of these rules and regulations
shall be cause for the Authority not issuing further permits to him for installing
building sewers.
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, court, yard or driveway, the
front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered
as one building sewer, but the Town of Griswold does not and will not assume
any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any
such single connection aforementioned.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only
when they are found, on examination and test by the Water Pollution Control
Authority, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
The connection of the building sewer into the public shall conform to
the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Code[1] or other applicable rules and regulations of the Town of Griswold
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing Materials and the Water Pollution Control Federation Manual
of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight
and verified by proper testing.
