No unauthorized persons 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.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
A. For residential and commercial service; and
B. For service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
In either case, 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.
[Amended 4-21-1997 by L.L. No. 1-1997]
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 Part 1.
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
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the WPCF Manual of Practice
No. 9 shall apply.
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.
No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation
drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to
a building sewer or building drains which in turn are 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 to the procedures set forth in appropriate
specifications of the ASTM and the WPCF 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 representatives.
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.
[Added 2-18-1985 by L.L. No. 1-1985]
All excavations of privately owned sewers extending from sidewalk to
sidewalk into the Village right-of-way shall be hereby the responsibility
of the Village of Norwood. The expense incurred in the repair or replacement
of a privately owned sewer shall be the responsibility of the landowner. This
expense shall be levied by the Village Board and the rate reviewed and determined
annually to concur with the current cost of Village crew and equipment. The
landowner shall bear no expense to road or sidewalk repair. No excavation
shall be done to a privately owned sewer extending from sidewalk to sidewalk
into the Village right-of-way until the landowner has completed excavation
from sidewalk to structure. The Superintendent of Public Works shall determine
the necessity of any/all excavation of Village properties and shall schedule
work according to need. He shall furnish the landowner with an estimate of
labor and material. All materials will be furnished by the Village of Norwood
and charged to the landowner. Any or all balance of unpaid bills of such service
will be added to the taxes of the landowner on the subsequent Village tax
roll.