No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Superintendent.
[Amended 9-8-1986 by L.L. No. 4-1986; 4-29-1991 by L.L. No.
6-1991; 1-10-2005 by L.L. No. 2-2005]
There shall be one class of building sewer permit
for both residential and commercial service. The owner or his agent
shall make application on a special form furnished by the Village.
The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications
or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent.
A permit and inspection fee of $250 for a residential and/or $350
for a commercial building sewer permit shall be paid to the Village
at the time the application is filed. Applications for permits to
construct sewer connections or to do plumbing work to be connected
to the sewerage system must be made in writing, on the form provided,
by the owner of the property to be sewered and shall be filed in the
office of the Village Clerk previous to opening the trench or commencing
the work.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify the Village from any loss or damage that
may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the
building sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building, except that where one building stands
at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private 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.
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.
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 Code or other
applicable rules and regulations of the Village. In the absence of
code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual
of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
[Amended 4-16-1990 by L.L. No. 4-1990]
A.
Trenching and installation shall be the responsibility
of the property owner from the building to the Village main. The size,
shape and safety of the trench shall be inspected and approved by
Sanitation Superintendent prior to any tap. Thereafter, the maintenance
of the property owner's lateral from the building to the Village Main
shall be the owner's responsibility.
[Amended 1-10-2022 by L.L. No. 1-2022]
B.
C.
Discontinued lateral. Any line no longer in use, serving
a demolished, rebuilt, relocated or abandoned building, must be cleaned
and capped with a watertight device or removed by the property owner
under the supervision of the Sanitation Superintendent.
D.
All excavations required for service connections shall
be properly barricaded and lighted, and warning devices maintained
and properly braced, if necessary. All material, earth and debris
shall be properly placed, replaced and removed following completion.
E.
In backfilling, the earth shall be carefully rammed
so as to keep the pipe in proper position and avoid settling, and
no stones shall be used in filling until there has been a depth of
two feet of fine earth or gravel placed over the pipe.
F.
This chapter shall take effect immediately.
A.
Where rock is found in the bottom of the trench, it
shall be taken out six inches below the required grade of the pipe,
and the space filled with sand, gravel or other suitable material
thoroughly rammed.
B.
No blasts shall be fired within five feet of the sewerage
system or any private sewer or drain connecting therewith, and the
utmost care shall be taken to prevent injury thereto.
The house sewer, from a point three feet outside
of the house to the street sewer, shall be of the first quality, salt-glazed,
vitrified earthenware pipe, with deep and wide sockets, unless laid
less than two feet deep, when it shall be of heavy cast iron. Its
diameter shall be not less than four inches. Orangeburg pipe will
not be allowed.
A.
The cover of the Y-branch on the sewer shall be carefully
removed so as not to injure the socket. The first length of the pipe
attached to the Y shall be set so as to give a good fall into the
sewer.
B.
The pipe shall be laid on an even grade of not less
than 1/4 inch to the foot.
C.
In making any deflection from a straight line, the
pipes must be selected so as to give close, smooth joints, and when
this cannot be done with straight pipes, special bends must be furnished.
All branch sewers shall be run on as nearly a straight line as possible
from the Village sewers to the nearest point in the cellar, and, where
possible, shall be left so such branch can be cleaned from the cellar.
D.
The ends of all private sewers not immediately connected
with the plumbing fixtures shall be securely closed by watertight
imperishable material.
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
by the 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 directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and
Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society for Testing and Materials and the Water Pollution Control
Federation Manual of Practice No. 9. 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.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall
be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or his representative.
All excavations for building sewer installation
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 the work shall be restored in
a manner satisfactory to the Village.
