No person shall uncover, make any connections
with, or opening into, use, alter, disturb, or discharge into any
public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written
permit from the Administrator or Town Board where designated.
There shall be two classes of building sewer
permits: for residential and commercial services; and for service
to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the
owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form
furnished by the Administrator. The permit application shall be accompanied
by plans, profiles, specifications or other information considered
pertinent by the Administrator. All permit applications for service
to establishments producing industrial wastes shall be subject to
Town Board approval after a public hearing. A permit and inspection
fee for a residential or commercial building sewer permit or for an
industrial building sewer permit in the amount prescribed in a fee
schedule adopted by the Town Board shall be paid to the Sewer District
at the time that the application is filed.
All costs and expenses in installing and connecting
a private sewer system or building sewer to the Town sewer system
after completion of the Town sewer system shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the Sewer District for any loss or damage
that might be occasioned by the installation and connection of such
public sewer system or 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 a separate interior lot, and no 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; but each shall be considered a separate unit for
the purpose of sewage service charges.
Existing building sewers may be used in conjunction
with new buildings only when they are found, upon inspection and testing
by the Administrator, to meet all requirements of this chapter, and
any other specifications adopted by the Administrator.
The size, slope, alignment, materials or construction
of a building sewer, appurtenances, and the methods to be used in
excavating, placing of the building sewer pipe, jointing, testing,
and backfilling the trench, shall conform to the requirements of the
specifications for the installation of building sewers as adopted
by the Town Board and all applicable provisions of any other rules
and regulations of the Town of Gardiner, or of the County of Ulster,
and the State of New York, whichever requirement is more strict. In
the absence of any requirements, or in amplification thereof, the
materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of
the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM), and Water Pollution
Control Federation (WPCF), Manual of Practice No. 9, shall apply.
All connections of building sewers to a public sewage system shall
be gastight and watertight. Any deviations from the prescribed materials
and construction procedures must be approved by the Administrator
prior to 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, sewage carried by such building
drain shall be lifted by a method approved by the Administrator and
discharged to a gravity flow building sewer.
No person shall make a 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 to a public sewer.
The applicant for the connection of any building
sewer to a public sewer system owned or maintained by the Sewer District
shall notify the Administrator when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. In no case shall any
underground portions of the building sewer be covered, or connection
to the public sewer made, without the approval and/or supervision
of the Administrator, or his or her representative. Permission to
activate the building sewer will be given only after satisfactory
final inspection has been made, and approval given by the Administrator.
All excavations for building sewer excavations
shall comply with all federal, state and local safety regulations,
and 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 work shall be restored
in a manner satisfactory to the Administrator and appropriate municipal
authorities.
Building sewers shall be maintained, serviced,
and repaired by the owner of the property served from the building
drain to the point of intersection of the building drain and the public
sewer. In the event that a property is unable to discharge sewage
into the public sewer, it will be presumed that the fault is in the
private building sewer unless contrary facts are in evidence. Evidence
of willful damage to a building sewer being served by a public sewer
shall be considered a violation of this chapter.
Before any building whose building sewer is
connected to a public sewer is demolished, the owner thereof shall
conform to the requirements established by the Administrator. The
cutoff or plugging of the building sewer shall be done with the permission,
and under the supervision of, the Administrator.