The costs and expenses incidental to the building sewer installation
and connection to the town's wastewater facilities 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 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 test by the manager to meet the requirements of this Part
1 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 wastewater sewer, wastewater
carried by such building drain shall be lifted and discharged to a building
sewer draining to the town's sewer.
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 wastewater treatment facility. These drains shall discharge to natural
outlets or storm sewers.
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 facilities. Such connection
and testing as deemed necessary by the manager shall be made under the supervision
of the manager or his authorized representative.
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 according to the specifications of the town.
The manager shall not issue a permit for any class of connection to
the town's wastewater sewers or wastewater treatment facilities unless there
is sufficient capacity, not legally committed to other users, in the wastewater
sewers and treatment facilities to convey and adequately treat the quantity
of wastewater which the requested connection will add to the system. The manager
may permit such a connection if there are legally binding commitments to provide
the needed capacity.