No person shall uncover, make any connection
with or opening into, use, alter, disturb or discharge into any public
sewage system or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written
permit from the Administrator or Town Board of the Town of Liberty
where designated.
There shall be two classes of building sewer
permits: one for residential and commercial service and one 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
the Town Board of the Town of Liberty 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 of the Town of Liberty shall
be paid to the district at the time that the application is filed.
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 where 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.
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.
[Amended 7-8-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996]
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
of the Town of Liberty and all applicable provisions of any other
rules and regulations of the Town of Liberty or of the County of Sullivan
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 for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control
Federation (WPCF), Manual of Practice No. 9, as amended, 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. If a monitoring manhole is required by the
Administrator, it shall be installed by the owner, as per the Administrator's
requirements, at the owner's expense and shall be maintained by the
owner so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
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.
[Amended 7-8-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996]
No person shall make a connection of roof downspouts,
exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface
runoff or groundwater or a garbage disposal or shredder to a building
sewer or building drain which in turn is connected to a public sewage
system.
The applicant for the connection of any building
sewer to a public sewage system owned or maintained by the district
shall notify the Administrator at least 24 hours in advance 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 edge of the highway or public right-of-way, if connected
to a public sewer in a public right-of-way, and to within two feet
of the district septic sewer system or district sewer system (as appropriate)
located in an easement across private property. In the event that
a property is unable to discharge sewage into the public sewage system,
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 cutoff or plugging
of the building sewer shall be done by the owner with the permission
and under the supervision of the Administrator and in conformance
with the requirements established by the Administrator. Failure by
the owner to comply with this section will require the Administrator
to complete the cutoff or plugging of the building sewer and assess
all costs involved to the owner.