[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Westbury 12-6-1973
by L.L. No. 3-1973 (Ch. 34 of the 1964 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall apply to all sewer connection work hereafter performed
in the Village of Westbury for the disposal of sanitary sewage and house wastes
through the public sewer of Sewer District No. 3 of the County of Nassau.
All sewer work shall be performed by or under the direct supervision
of a plumber holding a license from the Village of Westbury. The plumber having
such supervision shall be responsible for compliance with this chapter even
though he does not personally perform the work.
A.
Before any sewerage work is commenced in or on any property,
when the same is to be connected to the public sewer, or before any alterations
or additions are made to existing sewerage work, plans and descriptions of
the proposed work, signed by a licensed plumber, shall be filed in triplicate
in the office of the Building Inspector of the Village of Westbury and approval
of the plan given and a permit issued to do said work. Plans, description
and application shall be on blank forms obtained from the Building Department
of the Village of Westbury and signed by the owner of the premises or his
properly accredited agent. Plans, description and specifications must conform
to all the provisions of this chapter and to all rules and regulations which
are or may hereafter be made concerning such work and the regulations of Sewer
District No. 3 of the County of Nassau. For each permit issued covering the
installation of a new house sewer, a fee in an amount as set from time to
time by resolution of the Board of Trustees shall be paid, to be used to defray
the cost of inspection and tests. No permit shall be issued by the Village
of Westbury until a permit has been issued by the Nassau County Sewer Commission.[1]
B.
No permit granted by the Building Department under this
code shall be construed to permit any interference with or disturbance of
any village pavement in the Village of Westbury or any excavation in any road,
street or public place unless the applicant shall have first obtained from
the village a permit as now required by ordinances governing excavations.
No permit shall be deemed to authorize anything not stated in the application.
Where any connection makes necessary any excavation on any county road
or other road in the Village of Westbury not wholly under the jurisdiction
of said village, a permit for the opening thereof must be secured by the applicant
from the proper authorities prior to the issuance of a permit under this code.
After publication by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Westbury,
in the official paper of said village, that any section of the public sewerage
system of Sewer District No. 3 in the village, or any extension thereof, has
been completed and is ready for operation, the main drain of every new building,
except as hereinafter provided, abutting on any highway, public ground or
private way in which such public sewer is laid, shall be connected therewith
in the manner hereinafter provided; and all slops, filthy water, liquid waste
and spent water of every description, except it be of such nature as hereinafter
specifically prohibited, shall be discharged into a properly laid pipe emptying
directly into said sewer.
Within a period of one year from the date of the publication in the
official paper of the Village of Westbury of a notice by the Board of Trustees
that any section of the public sewerage system of Sewer District No. 3 within
the Village of Westbury, or any extension thereof, has been completed and
is ready for operation, the owner of any existing building or buildings located
in the village upon premises abutting on any highway, public ground or private
way in which a public sewer is laid shall cause the sewerage system of such
building or buildings to be connected with said public sewer, and the use
of any cesspool or privy vault on the premises shall be discontinued and such
cesspool or privy vault placed in a sanitary condition to the satisfaction
of the Building Department.
Where an existing cesspool is abandoned and a house sewer installed,
the cesspool shall be emptied, cleaned and disinfected and refilled with fresh
earth properly compacted.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation:
A.
To cause, allow or permit the discharge of sewage from
any house or building in the Village of Westbury into or upon any highway,
public ground, private way, stream, watercourse, ditch, surface or subsurface,
groundwater drain or stormwater drain.
B.
To uncover any portion of the public sewers, drains or
connections, or branches thereof, or to open any manhole or flush tank except
under a permit signed by the Superintendent of the Building Department of
the Village of Westbury.
C.
To open any highway or public ground for the purpose
of making any sewer connection, or to make or cause to be made any connection
with a house connection branch of the public sewer, except under a permit
issued by the Building Department of the Village of Westbury and under the
supervision of the Building Department.
D.
To break, cut or remove any pipe of the public sewers,
or cause to be made any connection with said sewers except through the connection
branches provided for that purpose. The location of said connection shall
be designated by the enforcement agency of Sewer District No. 3.
E.
To discharge or cause to be discharged into any public
sewer, directly or indirectly, any groundwater, surface water or rainwater,
or any discharge from cellar drains, roofed leader connections or drains from
washstands of public or private garages or car washes.
F.
To discharge or cause to be discharged into any public
sewer, directly or indirectly, any overflow or drainage from manure pits,
cesspools or receptacles storing or constructed to store organic wastes.
G.
To connect or cause to be connected with any public sewer,
directly or indirectly, any steam exhausts, boiler blowoffs, sediment drips,
or any pipes carrying or constructed to carry hot water, acids, germicides,
grease, brewery wash, gasoline, naphtha, benzene, oil or any other industrial
or trade waste or any other substance detrimental to or deemed by the enforcement
agency of Sewer District No. 3 to be detrimental to sewers or to the operation
of the sewerage system or sewage disposal works.
H.
To throw or deposit, or cause or allow to be thrown or
deposited, into any fixture, vessel, receptacle, inlet or opening connected
directly or indirectly with any public sewer, any garbage, vegetable parings,
ashes, cinders, rags or other matter or anything whatever, except feces, urine,
necessary toilet paper and liquid house slops. This provision shall not be
deemed to prohibit the depositing of or injecting into a public sewer garbage
and/or vegetable parings which have been previously ground by a method accepted
and approved by the Building Department.
I.
To allow any house sewer connected with the public sewer
to be also connected with any privy vault or cesspool or underground drain,
or with any channel conveying water or filth, except such soil pipes and other
plumbing works as shall have been duly inspected and approved by the Building
Department.
The Board of Sewer Commissioners may, upon presentation of adequate
evidence by the Building Inspector, stop and prevent the discharge into the
sewers of any substance deemed by them liable to injure the sewers or to interfere
with their normal operation, or to obstruct the flow or to hinder any process
of sewage purification.
Each building in the area served by a public sewer must be connected
separately and independently with the sewer through the house connection branch
directly opposite the building or nearest in the downstream direction. Groupings
of buildings on one house sewer will not be permitted, except by special act
of the Board of Sewer Commissioners for good sanitary reasons.
No house connection hereafter laid from the sewer to the wall of the
house shall be of any diameter less than five inches. Any house connection
larger than five inches must be approved by the Building Department.
Every house sewer hereafter laid connecting with the public sewer from
a point two feet outside the foundation walls of the building must be of one
of the materials as herein listed, and such materials and methods of joining
shall be in conformance with the specifications as herein listed:
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Pipe Description
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Specification
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Cast-iron soil pipe and fittings
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ASTM No. A74
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PVC DR 18 sewer pipe
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Federal No. SS-P-351
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A.
Cast-iron pipes shall be joined with first quality lead.
The entire joint shall be filled in one pouring and thoroughly caulked or
be an approved mechanical joint. PVC DR 18 sewer pipe shall be joined with
standard couplings and rubber sealing rings under compression and must be
made in strict accordance with the manufacturer's standards and recommendations.[1]
B.
Sewer connections running across filled ground shall
be installed in cast-iron pipe only.
A.
Sewer connections shall be laid solidly on a true grade
of not less than 1/4 inch per foot. They shall be laid in a straight line.
Changes in direction, if necessary, shall be made with proper fittings, and
all connections shall be made with Y-branches and 1/8 or 1/16 bends. House
sewers shall be covered to a depth of two feet with well-rammed fine earth
free from stones and rubbish.
B.
No house sewer shall be inspected or approved unless
the trench is open for its entire length and all pipes and joints visible,
and any trench backfilled before such inspection is made and the work approved
shall be reopened for its entire length by the plumber. The plumber shall
notify the Building Department, giving at least 24 hours' notice in advance
of the time when the connection will be laid and ready for inspection.
C.
In laying house sewers the trench shall be excavated
to the proper depth for its entire length before any pipe is laid, and no
tunneling shall be allowed. Where necessary, the sides of the trench shall
be supported by adequate sheathing and bracing.
D.
When laying house sewers to an existing spur in the sewer
or drain, a 1/8 bend shall be used to connect the first house sewer pipe and
the spur.
E.
All house sewers shall generally be four feet below the
established grade of the street at the curbline, for connections.
F.
The installation of more than one house sewer in a trench
is prohibited. Each house shall be separately and independently connected
to the sewer through the front wall of the building to be drained, except
when permission to do otherwise is granted by the Building Department. In
the case of a corner building, permission may be granted through the side
wall or through the rear wall.[1]
Cleanouts shall be installed and raised to existing grade at every major
change of direction, at intervals of no less than 50 feet and/or where required
by the Building Inspector.
A.
An iron running trap shall be placed in the house drain
near the front wall of the house and on the sewer side of all connections.
B.
An extra-heavy cast-iron "Y," five inches by four inches,
shall be placed inside the foundation wall and before the house trap. Where
fixtures are less than three feet above the invert of the public sewer in
the street, an approved back-water valve shall be installed.
C.
Grease traps, oil separators, neutralizing tanks, sand
traps, etc., shall be installed as required by the Building Inspector.
No building may be connected with the public sewer unless the building
has a soil line extending to a point above the roof and is properly vented.
Violation of any of the above regulations will be deemed sufficient
cause for the revocation of the plumber's license heretofore issued under
any other pertinent code, ordinance or local law.
