No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening
into, use, alter or disturb any public sanitary sewer system or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Superintendent.
A.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
for residential and commercial service and for service to establishments producing
industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application
on a special form furnished by the district. The permit application shall
be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered
pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent.
B.
A permit and inspection fee for a residential, commercial
or industrial building sewer permit shall be paid to the district at the time
the application is filed. The fee will be set by the Town Board and adjusted
as needed.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of
the building sewer shall be borne by the property owner. The owner shall indemnify
the district from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be incurred
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 or on an
interior lot and no private sanitary sewer system is available or can be constructed
to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway,
the building sewer from the building next to the sewer may be extended to
the building away from the sewer 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 Superintendent, to meet
all requirements of this chapter.
A.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of the 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 or other applicable rules and
regulations of the district. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification
thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications
of New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code shall be used.
B.
The connection of the building sewer into the public
sanitary sewer system shall conform to the requirements of the Building and
Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Building and
Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the district or
the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the New York State
Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. All such connections shall be made
gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and
materials must be approved by the Superintendent before installation.
In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity
flow to the public sanitary sewer system, 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, groundwater or
sump pump discharges 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 Superintendent
when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public
sanitary sewer system. The connection shall be made under the supervision
of the Superintendent or his representative.
All excavations for building a sewer installation shall be adequately
shored and guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect workers and
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 district.
