City of Schenectady, NY Article XI Plumbing Material and Specifications

§ 138-61 Fixtures and drains below street grade.

Any plumbing fixtures, cleanouts, cellars or floor drains placed below the established grade of any street in any building are so placed at the owner's risk. The City will not be liable for any damages to property or contents caused by the overflowing and for backing up of the sewage of said plumbing fixtures, cleanouts and cellars or floor drains.

§ 138-62 Sewer piping outside buildings.

A. Soil and waste building sewers and combined building sewers shall conform to the following:

(1) Service-weight cast-iron soil pipe may be used for any building.[1]

[1] Editor's Note: Former Subsection (1), which immediately preceded this subsection, was omitted 6-2-1986 by L.L. No. 3-1986.

(2) Vitrified clay, concrete, asbestos-cement and bituminized-fiber sewer pipe may be used under appropriate conditions where approved by the Examining Board of Plumbers.

(3) The minimum size of a building sewer shall be four inches.

B. Building storm sewers and subsoil drainage sewers shall be of extra heavy cast iron, wrought iron, steel, portland cement, concrete or vitrified clay, and the fittings shall be of the same material as the pipe.

C. The slope of sewer piping shall be as specified for horizontal drainage piping in the plumbing standards of the New York State Building Construction Code.

D. Sewer piping installed in filled or unstable ground shall be of extra-heavy cast-iron soil pipe or of other materials approved by the Examining Board of Plumbers and shall be supported by approved concrete pad, footings or properly tamped ground.

E. Where chemical wastes are encountered, pipe and fittings shall be of materials approved by the Examining Board of Plumbers as best suited to meet the harmful conditions.

F. Where there is a sewer in the street, every house or building must be separately and independently connected with it. Connections to the main sewer shall be either by a Y-branch or T-branch inserted in the main or, if no Y-branch or T-branch exists, by a cut in connection with M.D. fitting or equal type to be approved by the Plumbing Inspector.

G. All building sewers put in and covered without due notice to the Plumbing Inspector must be uncovered for inspection at the direction of the Inspector. Old building sewers can be used for new houses only when found by the Plumbing Inspector to conform in all respects to the regulations governing new sewers.

H. Plumbing contractors must abide by all rules and regulations of the Department of Engineering pertaining to tunneling, cutting of pavement and connections to the main sewer in the street.

§ 138-63 Water piping outside buildings.

[Added 6-2-1986 by L.L. No. 3-1986]

A. The service must be of lead pipe or Type K soft-copper tubing and connected with the tap and extending therefrom at right angles with the main to the inside of the property line of the land or building served and connected with a curb cock.

B. The service on new installations shall be of one inch minimum diameter.

C. The lead pipe is to be of the quality, strength and weight known as "AAA Brooklyn gauge," as follows:

(1) One inch caliber, weight six pounds per foot, 1.6 inches external diameter.

(2) One and one-half inches caliber, weight 8 1/2 pounds per foot, 2.14 inches external diameter.

D. The Type K copper pipe is to be of the quality, strength and weight and marked as to the standards of ASTM B88-62.

E. Said lead or copper service shall have an excess of length of not less than 18 inches above the length required to connect to the tap in the main and the curb-cock, so as to procure a slack, the greater part of which shall occur near the tap, which slack may be used up in case of any settling of the material used in backfilling the trench without breaking the tap or service. The lead pipe joints shall be wiped. The Type K copper joints shall be of the flared compression type. All workmanship connected with said service shall be approved satisfactory to the Department of Water.

F. The use of five-eighths-inch or three-fourths-inch lead AAA Brooklyn gauge pipe shall be used in repair work only.

G. The corporation cock, curb cock and curb box must be procured from the Department of Water, and water will not be turned on for service in which these fittings have been supplied from any other source.

H. The service from the curb cock into the premises must be of AAA Brooklyn gauge lead pipe, galvanized wrought-iron pipe, or Type K soft copper (ASTM STD B88-62).

I. The said above service shall be of one inch minimum diameter on new installations.