A.
Connections to the public sewers shall be made only by
the Town.
B.
It shall be unlawful to erect or maintain any privy,
septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for disposal of
sewage, unless:
(1)
Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available
and availability is defined as being located within 100 feet being 30.5 meters
of the property line of the subject property.
(2)
Before the commencement of construction of a private
sewerage disposal system, the owner shall first file application and shall
obtain a permit for the construction of same from the Board of Housing Appeal
of Federalsburg, Maryland.
(3)
All such installations shall be made and completed to
the satisfaction of the Caroline County Health Officer and the Town Engineer
of Federalsburg.
C.
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used
for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within
the Town and abutting on any street, alley, or right-of-way in which there
is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined
sewer of the Town, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet
facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper
public sewer in accordance with the provisions of requirements of the Federalsburg
Housing, Building and Plumbing Codes.[1]
D.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation
drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff of groundwater to
a building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly with the
sanitary sewer. Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged
to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers (or storm drains)
to be a natural outlet approved by the Engineer. Industrial cooling water
or unpolluted process waters may be discharged on approval by the responsible
regulatory agency to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
A.
No person other than authorized Town employees shall
uncover, make any connections with or opening into, or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenances thereof.
B.
Permits for connection to the public sewer shall be obtained
from the Town Engineer and shall be made on forms provided by and approved
by the Mayor and Council of Federalsburg.
C.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation and
connection of the building of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the Town from any loss or damage that may directly
or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
D.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new
buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by proper Town
authority to meet all requirements of the Plumbing Code.
E.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of 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 Codes or other applicable
rules and regulations of the Town.
F.
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 at owner's entire cost.
G.
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 and regulations of the Town.
