No unauthorized person(s) shall uncover, make
any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenance thereof without a written permit from the Town.
Failure to obtain a permit may result in a fine of $250. Permits expire
one year from date of issue.
A.
Three types of sewer permits will be issued. These
will be for residential, nonresidential and repair/reconnection. The
owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished
by the sewer district. The permit shall be supplemented by any plans,
specifications and other information considered pertinent in the judgment
of the Utilities Committee, Town Designated Engineer, Town Sewer Inspector
or Deputy Sewer Inspector.
All costs and expenses incidental to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the property
owner(s). These costs include attorney's fees, legal fees, filing
fees and engineering fees, etc. The owner(s) shall indemnify the sewer
district and the Town from any loss or damage that may directly or
indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
Where a new building is constructed and there
is no building lateral from the main to the property line, the cost
of installation of this lateral and the tapping of the main will be
the responsibility of the property owner, including excavation, pipe
work, backfill, replacement of pavement, etc.
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, courtyard or driveway, the front building sewer may be extended
to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer,
but the Town does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility
for damage caused by or resulting from any single connection aforementioned.
No person(s) shall make connection of sump pumps,
roof downspouts, foundation drains, floor 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 this chapter and
to the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code (latest
revision) and in addition to any applicable rules and regulations
of the Town of North Greenbush and Rensselaer County Sewer District
No. 1. Connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified
by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedure and
materials must be approved by the Town Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy
Sewer Inspector before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Town Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy Sewer Inspector
24 hours in advance of when the building sewer is ready for inspection
and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall
be made under the supervision of the Town Sewer Inspector and/or Deputy
Sewer Inspector.
The property owner's sewer connection between
the house lateral at the property line and the building shall be a
direct connection and shall bypass all septic tanks, leach pits, tile
fields and other private disposal facilities which shall be abandoned.
Ten 10 feet shall be required between sewer lines and waterlines.
