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 Village Clerk.
B.
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 to the judgment of the Plumbing
Inspector.
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 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 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 Plumbing Inspector to meet all requirements of this chapter.
A.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction
of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing
of the pipe, bedding of the pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling
the trench, shall conform to the requirements of the Building and
Plumbing Code[1] or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village.
B.
In the absence of code provisions or in amplification
thereof, the materials and installation and construction procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and Water
Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9, and as amended,
shall apply.
C.
Building sewers must be constructed of extra-heavy
cast-iron pipe, be a minimum of four inches in inside diameter and
be properly connected by a 1-45 bend with a four-inch "Y" M.D. branch
on the public sewer. A larger size pipe may be required by the Plumbing
Inspector if he deems it necessary.
D.
All house sewers, drains and horizontal soil and waste
pipes shall be laid as straight as possible, and any changes in directions
shall be made with proper, approved fittings, and all such pipes shall
have a fall of not less than 1/4 inch per foot and as much more as
may be practicable in each case and as approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
E.
No house sewer shall be covered until it has been
examined and approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
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 in such manner as the Plumbing Inspector shall
approve.
No person shall make connection of roof downspout,
exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface
runoff or ground water to a building sewer or building drain which
in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
[Amended 12-17-2018 by L.L. No. 14-2018]
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and
Plumbing Code and rules and regulations, and other applicable rules
and regulations of the Village, County of Westchester and New York
State, and shall be constructed and installed in strict accordance
with any plans and specifications approved by the Westchester County
Department of Health. All such connections shall be made gastight
and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials
must be approved by the Plumbing Inspector before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit
shall notify the Plumbing Inspector when the building sewer is ready
for inspection and for connection to the public sewer. The connection
shall be made under the supervision of the Plumbing Inspector or his
representative.
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.