No 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 of
Sewers.
No person shall discharge into the public sewer any industrial
or commercial waters or wastes without obtaining an appropriate permit
from the State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection pursuant
to § 22a-430 of the General Statutes prior to discharge
of such waters or wastes to the Town's sewerage system.
Any person proposing a new discharge into a public sewer or
a substantial change in the volume or character of pollutants that
are being discharged into a public sewer shall notify the Superintendent
at least 45 days prior to the proposed change or connection.
B.
In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on
a special form furnished by the Town. The permit application shall
be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information
considered pertinent in the judgment of Water Pollution Control Authority
and Superintendent of Sewers. A permit and inspection fee of $15 for
a sewer permit for a residential or commercial building and $25 for
a sewer permit for buildings where industrial wastes are produced
shall be paid to the Superintendent of Sewers at the time the application
is filed.
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 Town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly
be occasioned by the installation of the 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
of Sewers, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
The Water Pollution Control Authority or the Superintendent
of Sewers shall from time to time establish minimum standards and
specifications to regulate the sizes, materials, methods and workmanship
to be used in the construction of sewers, building drains, building
sewers, and other similar work and appurtenances thereto connected
or intended to be connected or to discharge, directly or indirectly,
into any public sewer or drain. Such standards shall provide minimum
requirements as to size, depth, slope or rate of grade for such pipes,
shall regulate the kinds of pipe, fittings, methods of laying, jointing,
materials used, manner of connecting to preexisting sewers and drains,
and general considerations as to location and other pertinent features.
The requirements of Town building and plumbing codes shall be
observed with respect to piping and fixtures inside or immediately
adjacent to buildings and within the areas of jurisdiction of said
several codes, subject only to the general requirements of this chapter.
Pipe more than five feet outside the inner walls of any building or
similar structure shall conform to the requirements of this chapter
as to permits, materials and workmanship.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the
Superintendent of Sewers, reasonably in advance, 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
of Sewers or his agent.
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 Water Pollution Control Authority.
[Amended 12-19-2019]
When any building or other structure previously served by a
connection to any public sewer is demolished, destroyed, abandoned,
or altered so that any sewer or portion of an abandoned plumbing system
which is directly or indirectly connected to any public sewer is no
longer used and is no longer connected to the sewer system which discharged,
directly or indirectly, into a public sewer, such sewer or system
shall be promptly closed and sealed off so that no water or wastes
not otherwise permitted to enter the public sewer shall be so discharged
thereinto. The Superintendent of Sewers shall be notified of such
abandonment or discontinuance and of the closing and sealing of such
sewer and shall be afforded an opportunity to see such work performed.
All of the work shall be done by the person or party who demolishes
the building or structure or who alters the sewerage of the premises
so as to make such closing and sealing necessary, and, in the event
of the failure of such person or party to do so, shall be done by
the owner, lessee or tenant of the premises in a satisfactory manner
all without expense to the Town.
[Amended 12-19-2019]
No person other than a drain layer licensed by the State of
Connecticut shall construct, repair, alter or remove any sewer, building
drain, building sewer, or sewer line connected to or with or discharging
directly or indirectly to or into any public sewer of the Town or
intended to discharge thus at some future time, regardless of whether
the work is located in a public street or in public or private land.
A.
The following may, as indicated, construct, repair, alter or remove
sewers, subject to supervision and approval by the Water Pollution
Control Authority:
(1)
Regular forces of a contractor employed by the Town, operating under
orders of the Water Pollution Control Authority and in the performance
of work for the Town;
(2)
Regular forces of the Town or the State Department of Transportation
operating under and subject to the permit for the particular job to
be issued by the Water Pollution Control Authority or the Superintendent
of Sewers and while engaged in the regular work and operations of
the Town or State Department of Transportation.
[Amended 12-19-2019]
(3)
Regular forces of any public utility corporation authorized by state
law to construct, maintain and operate pipes or ducts within public
highways within the Town, while engaged in work incidental to the
regular structures of the utility company and operating under and
subject to the conditions of a permit for the particular job issued
by the Water Pollution Control Authority or the Superintendent of
Sewers.
B.
The limitations as to persons who may construct, alter or repair building drains and building sewers as provided in § 257-27 shall not restrict the usual work of plumbers or others when operating in accordance with local plumbing and building codes of the Town and when they are working on pipes within or not more than five feet outside the walls of a building or similar structure, provided that no plumber or other person shall make any connection to a public sewer of the Town without a permit therefor, even if the sewer is located under or immediately adjacent to any building or similar structure, and provided that all fixtures within the building or structure and all use made of them shall conform to the requirements of this chapter as to what may and may not be permitted to be discharged into public sewers.
Nothing contained in this article shall prohibit the owner of
a building or structure from personally installing the building sewer
on his own property under the conditions herein specified:
A.
Approval of plans and final approval by the Superintendent of Sewers
shall be obtained.
B.
A permit shall be secured as provided in this article before the
work is performed.
C.
Permit fees shall be paid, and application made for inspections.
D.
All work shall be performed by the owner himself in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter.
