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.
There shall be two classes of building sewer permits as follows:
The owner or his/her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Borough. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. A permit and inspection fee for a residential or commercial building sewer permit as set forth in § 91-8 of Chapter 91, Fees, shall be paid to the Borough at the time the application is filed.
[Amended 2-16-1998 by Ord. No. 1998-544]
A.
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 Borough from any loss or damage that may directly or
indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
B.
The Borough shall not be liable for any stoppage of the sewer lines
between the main sewer line and the building served thereby nor for
any damage resulting from said stoppage, and in no event will the
Borough provide any labor or material to free, clear or remove obstructions
from the said lines connected to the system or appurtenances added
or attached thereto; all such work consisting of maintenance of sewer
laterals (that is, sewer lines running from the trunk line to the
curb or property line and the sewer line running from the curb or
property line to the building served) shall be the obligation of the
abutting owner.
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 Superintendent,
to meet all the requirements of this chapter.
A.
The size, shape, 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 Codes[1] or other applicable rules and regulations of the Borough.
In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the
materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of
the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
B.
All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation
from the prescribed procedures and materials shall be approved by
the Superintendent before 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, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall
be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
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/her representative.
A.
All excavations for building sewer installations shall be adequately
guarded with barricades and lights 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 Borough.
B.
No person shall make 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.
