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 designated
officer of the district.
[Amended 1-22-1986 by L.L. No. 1-1986; 11-14-2007 by L.L. No.
7-2007]
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: for residential
and commercial service and 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 district. For proposed
commercial and industrial connections, an applicant must provide an
engineer's statement outlining estimated flow in gallons per day;
total suspended solids and BOD. The permit application shall be supplemented
by any other plans, specifications or other information considered
pertinent in the judgment of the designated officer of the district.
A permit and inspection fee of $25 for a residential or commercial
building sewer permit and $50 for an industrial building sewer permit
or such other amount as may be established from time to time by resolution
of the Town Board shall be paid to the district at the time the application
is filed.
All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection
of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall
indemnify the district from any loss or damage that may directly or
indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer
to the district sewer line or appurtenances.
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided
for every building; except where one building stands at the rear of
another on an interior lot#nd[??278] no private sewer is available
or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley,
court, yard or driveway, then 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 designated
officer of the town, 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 applicable rules and regulations of the Town
of Oneonta. 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.
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 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 State Building and Plumbing Code
or other applicable rules and regulations of the Town of Oneonta or
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 designated officer
of the town before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
designated officer of the town when the building sewer is ready for
inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall
be made under the supervision of the officer of the town or his representative.
No backfilling shall be permitted until inspection has been completed
and the work approved by the town officers.
All excavations for building sewer installations 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 district.