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 Director. Any person proposing a new discharge into the public sewer system or a substantial change in the volume or character of pollutants that are being discharged into the public sewer system shall notify the Superintendent at least 45 days prior to the proposed change or connection.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
A. 
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: (1) for residential and commercial service, and (2) 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 City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgement of the Director. Prior to discharge or permission to discharge into the City's public sewers, the applicant industry shall obtain written approval from the State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, in the form of a permit, allowing the proposed discharge.
B. 
A permit and inspection fee as set forth in Chapter 206, Fees and Charges, Article V, for residential or commercial building sewer permits and for industrial building sewer permits shall be paid to the City at the time the application is filed.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
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 City 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 tests by the Director, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulation of the City. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
A. 
The material of all private sewers connecting with the public sewer shall be hard-burned, salt-glazed vitrified pipe not less than five inches in diameter, or of extra heavy iron soil pipe not less than four inches in diameter, and PVC sewer pipe, ASTM D-3033 or D-3034 SDR-35 not less than six inches in diameter.
B. 
All pipe shall be laid to true lines and grade and shall be properly bedded and jointed according to current practices. At all angles, proper clean-outs or manholes must be furnished. Attention must be paid to the tightness of the joints in private sewers to prevent leakage of groundwater into the same. All connections made to the public sewer shall be made with a "Y" connection.
C. 
No sewer from any building shall pass beneath another building unless made of extra heavy iron pipe with leaded joints. No sewer from any building shall pass over a water line, unless the sewer invert is at least 12 inches above the water line and the sewer line is encased in concrete for a distance of at least two feet on each side of the water line. If the sewer line passes below the water line, the sewer line shall be at least six inches below the invert of the water line.
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.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
No roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater shall be connected to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
Building sewers shall not be located within 75 feet of a private well.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the State Building Code. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Director before installation.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
Building sewers shall be installed without ninety-degree and short-body bends and shall be installed with tees or bends so located as to afford facilities for hydraulic or pneumatic testing of the entire sewer.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made by the contractor under the supervision of the Director or his representative.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
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 by the contractor in a manner satisfactory to the City.
Whenever repairs are necessary on private sewers, a permit to repair such sewers must be obtained before any work is done.
All public sewers shall be under the control of and be maintained and kept clean by the City. The expense of cleaning and repairing of any building sewer shall be paid by the owner of the premises connected by the building sewer, and the owner will be required to deposit an amount necessary to cover such expense before the cleaning or repairs are undertaken; provided, however, that any labor on private sewers occasioned by defects or obstructions in the public sewer shall be paid by the City.