No person shall uncover, make any connections
with or opening into, or use, alter, disturb or discharge into any
public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written
permit from the administrator or Village Board where designated.
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 administrator. The permit application shall be accompanied by
plans, profiles, specifications or other information considered pertinent
by the administrator. All permit applications for service to establishments
producing industrial wastes shall be subject to Village Board approval
after a public hearing. A permit and inspection fee for a residential
or commercial building sewer permit or for an industrial building
sewer permit, in the amount prescribed in a fee schedule adopted by
the Village Board, shall be paid to the Consolidated Sewer Area at
the time that the application is filed.
A.Â
The owner of any public sewage system located within
the Consolidated Sewer Area, other than a system owned and operated
by the Consolidated Sewer Area, must receive the written approval
of the administrator before a connection of all or any part of the
system can be made to the Consolidated Sewer System. Where the public
sewage system is operating, a condition of approval shall require
the owner to provide the administrator with as-built drawings of the
sewage system to be connected, as well as any additional data he may
require to determine the quantity and character of sewage flow to
be discharged to the Consolidated Sewer System. Where the public sewage
system is not operating and initial service will be provided by the
Consolidated Sewer Area, as-built drawings of the sewage system for
which connection approval is requested shall be furnished to the administrator,
as well as the results of infiltration and exfiltration tests made
under the supervision of and certified by a professional engineer
licensed in the State of New York, prior to the connection of any
system thereto. Infiltration of such sewer shall not exceed 200 gallons
per inch of diameter per mile of sewer per day. The owner of the public
sewage system shall, before the system is accepted, make repairs as
necessary when excessive infiltration is located. Such repairs shall
be subject to the approval of the administrator.
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The administrator reserves the right to perform such
studies, measurements and tests to ensure compliance with the requirements
of this article.
All costs and expenses in installing and connecting
a public sewage system or building sewer to the Village sewage system
shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Consolidated
Sewer Area for any loss or damage that might be occasioned by the
installation and connection of such public sewage system or building
sewer.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building, except that where one building stands
at the rear of another on a separate interior lot and no 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 may be
considered as one building sewer; but each shall be considered a separate
unit for the purpose of sewage service charges.
Existing building sewers may be used in conjunction
with new buildings only when they are found, upon inspection and testing
by the administrator, to meet all requirements of this Part 2 and
any other specifications adopted by the administrator.
The size, slope, alignment, materials or construction
of a building sewer, appurtenances and the methods to be used in excavating,
placing of the building sewer pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling
the trench shall conform to the requirements of the specification
for the installation of building sewers as adopted by the Village
Board and all applicable provisions of any other rules and regulations
of the Village of Woodbury or of the County of Orange and the State
of New York, whichever requirement is more strict. In the absence
of any requirements or in the amplification thereof, the materials
and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American
Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control
Federation (WPCF), Manual of Practice No. 9, shall apply. All connections
of building sewers to a public sewage system shall be gastight and
watertight. Any deviations from the prescribed materials and construction
procedures must be approved by the administrator prior to installation.
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, sewage carried by such building
drain shall be lifted by a method approved by the administrator and
discharged to a gravity flow building sewer.
No person shall make a 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 to a public sewer.
The applicant for the connection of any building
sewer to a public sewage system owned or maintained by the Consolidated
Sewer Area shall notify the administrator when the building sewer
is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. In no
case shall any underground portions of the building sewer be covered
or connection to the public sewer made without the approval and/or
supervision of the administrator or his representative. Permission
to activate the building sewer will be given only after satisfactory
final inspection has been made and approval given by the administrator.
All excavations for building sewer excavations
shall comply with all federal, state and local safety regulations
and 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 work shall be restored
in a manner satisfactory to the administrator and appropriate municipal
authorities.
Building sewers shall be maintained, serviced
and repaired by the owner of the property served from the building
drain to a point within one foot of the Y in the street, if connected
to a public sewer in a public right-of-way, and to within two feet
of the public sewer located in an easement across private property.
In the event that a property is unable to discharge sewage into the
public sewer, it will be presumed that the fault is in the private
building sewer unless contrary facts are in evidence. Evidence of
willful damage to a building sewer being served by a public sewer
shall be considered a violation of this Part 2.
Before any building whose building sewer is
connected to a public sewer is demolished, the owner thereof shall
conform to the requirements established by the administrator. The
cutoff or plugging of the building sewer shall be done with the permission
and under the supervision of the administrator.
