[Amended 8-6-2009 by Ord. No. 09-35]
No sewer connection between curbline and sewer main shall hereafter be laid, connected or covered up except under the supervision of and after inspection by the Division of Water and Sewers. Every person, before laying or making such sewer connection, shall obtain a sewer connection permit to be issued by the Division of Water and Sewers and, before obtaining the sewer connection permit, shall pay a fee of $200 to meet the cost of supervision and inspection of the sewer connection to be made and to serve as a connection fee for entering the system. Such fee shall be in addition to any fee or fees heretofore or hereafter requested to be paid.
No sewage or waste of any kind shall be emptied into or through a sewer connection prior to the approval and acceptance of the connection by the Division of Water and Sewers, and the certification of such approval and acceptance upon the sewer connection permit theretofore issued.
No roof drainspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or any other source of surface runoff or groundwater may be connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
In any case, where a large volume of sewage or waste is being emptied into any sewer at such an excessive rate as to surcharge the sewer and cause backing up of sewage to the detriment or injury of any user of such sewer, or so as to cause or create a nuisance to any person, property or the City of Trenton, the Division of Water and Sewers shall have the authority to require that such excessive flow be regulated by the installation of some proper device or means approved by the Division whereby the sewage or waste may be retarded or impounded during the period of excessive flow and discharged at a reduced rate over a sufficient period of time to insure against overloading or of blocking the flow of the sewer into which such sewage flows.
At the request of the Division of Water and Sewers the applicant for permission to connect with the sewer system of the City shall furnish to the Division a statement giving the quantity and chemical and physical characteristics of the sewage which the applicant proposes to discharge into the sewer system.
The Division of Water and Sewers shall make all repairs to service pipes between the curb and the main, the expense of which shall be apportioned chargeable in the manner provided by state law for sewer installations. It shall be the responsibility of the property owner to make all necessary repairs to the service from the curbline to the building. It shall be the responsibility of the owner, at his/her own expense, to make on his/her own property any necessary excavation that shall be necessary to determine the existence of and location of any damage or obstruction to the sewer service to the premises; provided, however, that in the event that it is determined by such excavation that the primary cause of the trouble is situated between the curbline and the street connection, the owner shall be reimbursed up to a maximum of $250 for his/her actual costs of excavating. It shall be the responsibility of the owner to present to the Department of Public Works the receipt or other proof of payment verifying the actual excavation expenditures.
All sewer house connections, collecting lines, interceptors, force mains, pump stations and appurtenances shall be constructed in conformance with all rules and regulations of the Trenton Sewer Utility, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
No garbage disposal unit shall be connected with the sanitary sewer system of the City, nor shall the effluence of any such disposal unit be discharged therein. This prohibition shall not apply to the use of any garbage disposal unit connected with such sanitary sewer system of the City prior to December 8, 1948, or to any public hospital incorporated under an act for the incorporation of corporations and associations not for profit of the State of New Jersey and which public hospital or hospitals are supported in whole or in part by public funds; or to homes for the sick, aged and infirm incorporated under an act for the incorporation of corporations and associations not for profit of the State of New Jersey and which homes are not conducted for profit.
No connection with or opening into any sewer or drain in the City, either public or private, shall be used for the conveyance or discharge directly or indirectly into the sewer or drain of any volatile, inflammable liquid, gas or vapor. A volatile, inflammable liquid is any liquid that will emit an inflammable vapor at a temperature below 160º F.
Any occupant or owner of any premises connected with a sewer or drain, public or private, who shall use, permit or allow to be used any such drain or sewer for the discharge of any of the substances hereinabove specified, which sewer or drain connection is not provided with a separator, trap or similar apparatus attached thereto which is approved by the Plumbing Inspector, shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this section.
All sewer charges not paid when due shall bear interest and shall be lien upon the premises to which sewer service is rendered in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:14A-21.