A.
No person shall install a building sewer or connect
a building sewer to the public sewer without first obtaining a permit
therefor from the Director of Public Works and paying the required
fee for such permit.
B.
Application for such permit shall be made to the Director
of Public Works on an application form prescribed and supplied by
the Borough Council, which application shall be accompanied by such
plans, specifications and other information as the Borough Engineer
and/or the Director of Public Works shall require in order to determine
that the building sewer and the proposed connection to the public
sewer will comply with all provisions of this chapter.
All applicants for a permit shall pay a fee
for review and inspections to be made by the Borough Engineer or Director
of Public Works as follows:
A.
The fee for inspection shall be based on the number
of hours spent by the Borough Engineer, Director of Public Works or
their representative in reviewing the plans and specifications and
in inspecting the work covered by the permit, computed at the rate
of $50 per hour.
B.
Prior to issuance of a permit, the applicant shall
deposit with the Director of Public Works, on account of such review
and inspection fees, a sum estimated by the Director of Public Works
to represent the probable total fees. In the event the estimated review
and inspection fees deposited by the applicant are insufficient, the
applicant shall deposit with the Director of Public Works such additional
amount as may be required, based on the actual amount of times spent
performing such reviews and inspections. In the event the total time
spent on such inspections is less than that originally estimated,
the Director of Public Works shall refund any excess payment to the
applicant.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner of
the property being connected to the public sewer, and the owner shall
be responsible for and shall reimburse the Borough for any loss or
damage to the public sewer caused, directly or indirectly, by the
installation of the building sewer.
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 and it is not possible to make
a direct connection from such rear building to the public sewer, in
which event the building sewer connecting the front building to the
public sewer may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered
as one building sewer.
An existing building sewer previously used to
service a former building located on a particular property may be
used to service a new building to be constructed on the property only
if, upon examination and testing by the Borough Engineer, such building
sewer is found to meet all the requirements of this chapter. The testing
shall be done by dye test, smoke test and the television camera method,
video recording with narrative, the cost of which shall be borne by
the owner or builder for new construction.
The size, slope, alignment, material for construction
of a building sewer and the method to be used in excavating, placing
of pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling shall conform to the requirements
of the Uniform Construction Code and all other applicable ordinances,
rules and regulations of the Borough and all other applicable provisions
of law.
All requirements of the Borough of Fort Lee
confined space rules and regulations shall be adhered to.
Unless authorized in advance by the Borough
Engineer and/or Director of Public Works, whenever possible, the building
sewer shall enter the building at an elevation below that of the basement
floor.
In any building in which the building drain
is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sewerage carried
by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged
to the building sewer, and each such connection shall be protected
by a backflow preventive device which shall be maintained by the owner
of the property.
No person shall connect any roof, downspout,
foundation drain, areaway drain or other sources of surface runoff
or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which is connected
directly or indirectly to a public sewer unless prior approval therefor
is granted by the Borough Engineer and/or Director of Public Works,
which approval shall be granted only if necessary for proper and sanitary
disposal of polluted surface drain water.
[Amended 3-3-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-5]
A.
The connection of the building sewer into the public
sewer shall conform to all applicable requirements of the Uniform
Construction Code and all other applicable ordinances, rules and regulations
and all other applicable provisions of law.
B.
Unless otherwise provided herein, or in any other
ordinance, rule, regulation or other provision of law, the procedures
and specifications established by the American Society of Civil Engineers
and Manual of Practice No. 9 of the Water Pollution Control Federation
shall represent the standards to be applied with respect to such installations.
C.
All connections between the building sewer and the
public sewer shall be made gastight and watertight, which conditions
shall be verified by testing.
D.
Check
valves shall be provided at all connections between the building sewer
and the public sewer.
Any person installing a building sewer shall
notify the Borough Engineer and the Director of Public Works, in advance,
when such building sewer is to be connected to the public sewer, and
such connection and testing thereof shall be made under the supervision
of the Borough Engineer and/or Director of Public Works or their representative.
