A.
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 Superintendent.
B.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permit for residential
and commercial services and for services to establishments producing
industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make
application on a special form furnished by the Village. The permit
applications shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or
other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent.
A permit and inspection fee for each class shall be established by
the Village Board and shall be paid to the Village at the time the
application is filed.
[Amended 1-6-1987 by L.L. No. 3-1987]
All costs and expenses 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.
[Amended 7-3-1990 by L.L. No. 3-1990]
A.
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, court, yard or driveway,
the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the
rear building. This second connection shall be considered to be an
additional sewer unit and as such shall require a permit and be subject
to the appropriate permit and inspection fee.
B.
A separate sewer line is not required when an existing building is
expanded, remodeled or otherwise changed so as to accommodate an additional
dwelling unit or commercial business, be it one room or more, but
said change does constitute an additional sewer unit and shall require
a one-time fee equal to the amount of the appropriate permit and inspection
fee for that class of building.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings
only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent,
to meet all requirements of this Part 2.
A.
The size, slope, alignment, materials or 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 regulations of the Village. In the absence of code provisions
or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth
in appropriate specifications of the American Society for Testing
and Materials (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF)
Manual of Practice No. 9, or any current revisions thereof, shall
apply.
B.
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.
C.
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
directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
D.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall
conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes or
other applicable rules and regulations of the Village or the procedures
set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society for
Testing and Materials (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control Federation
(WPCF) Manual of Practice No. 9, or any current revisions thereof.
All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation
from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the
Superintendent before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and
connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under
the supervision of the Superintendent or his representative.
All excavations for a 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.
[Amended 3-2-2011 by L.L. No. 4-2011]
Subsequent maintenance of the sewer lateral from the building
to the sewer main shall be as follows:
A.
Cleaning shall be the responsibility of the property owner.
B.
Repairs and/or replacement shall be the responsibility of the property
owner except that for repairs within the public right-of-way on Village
streets, the Village shall supply the following:
(3)
For repeat problems occurring more than once in a five-year period,
if the Village personnel determine that the repeat excavation is caused
by inappropriate use of the sewer, such as the flushing of diapers
or sanitary napkins, the cost of labor and material provided by the
Village shall be charged back to the property owner, and if not paid
within 60 days, the cost shall be assessed on the next Village tax
bill.
C.
On Village streets, all work is to be supervised by Village personnel.
No backfilling shall be permitted until the work is inspected by Village
personnel.
D.
All repairs which require excavation on or off the property being
served by the sewer shall require a permit issued by the Village Clerk.
A fee for the permit shall be established by resolution of the Village
Board.
E.
For state or county streets, roads or highways, work shall be performed
in accordance with the rules of those jurisdictions.