No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connections with or openings into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Sewer Inspector or other authorized person.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer and the repair, maintenance and
replacement thereof shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify
the municipality from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly
be occasioned by any such installation, connection, repair, maintenance
and replacement and any work done in connection therewith.
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 building sewer from the front
building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered
as one building sewer.
Old building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Sewer Inspector or other authorized person, to meet all requirements
of this chapter.
The size, slope, alignment and materials of
construction of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating,
placing the pipe and the connection thereof to the public sewer, jointing,
testing and backfilling the trench shall all conform to the requirements
of the Building and Plumbing Codes or other applicable rules or regulations of the municipality and those contained in Chapter
348, Water and Sewers, of the Code of the City of Ithaca, New York, or other applicable laws, rules and regulations of said city, as the same may be from time to time amended as they apply to sewer services, and, in addition, when the contracting municipality is the Village of Cayuga Heights or any other contracting municipality, any additional requirements contained in any duly adopted ordinance or law of said municipality.
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and
Plumbing Codes or other applicable rules or regulations of the municipality
or the procedures set forth in the appropriate specifications of the
American Society for Testing and Materials and Water Pollution Control
Federation Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be
watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the
prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Sewer
Superintendent before installation.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall
be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement 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 an approved means and discharged
to the building sewer.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts,
exterior foundation drains, areaway drains 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 applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Sewer Inspector or other authorized person and, in
the case of a contracting municipality, the authorized person of said
municipality when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection
to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision
of said authorized person.
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 municipality and to any other municipality
having jurisdiction and control of said highway.