No person shall uncover, make any connection
with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Town and
paying to the Town any fee imposed.
All costs and expense incident to the installation,
repair and maintenance or reconstruction of a building sewer to the
service connection shall be borne by the owner. The initial installation
of the service connection from the public right-of-way to the public
sewer shall be installed by the owner, with all costs and expenses
incidental to the initial service connection being borne by the owner.
Upon inspection and acceptance by the Town, the service connection
will be maintained by the Town. The owner is responsible for road
opening permits and/or other utility permits or notifications.
The building sewer shall be connected to a service
connection at a place designated by the Superintendent.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building except as otherwise provided in this
article. Grouping of more than one building on one building sewer
shall not be permitted, except under special circumstances and for
good sanitary reasons or other good cause shown, but only after special
permission of the Town Council, in writing, shall have been secured
and subject to such rules, regulations and conditions as may be prescribed
by the Town Council.
Existing building sewers may be used in connection
with any building only when they are found, on examination and test
by the Superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
The building sewer shall be cast-iron soil pipe
ASTM Specification A74-66 or equal; asbestos-concrete sewer pipe Class
1500 Type II ASTM Specification C428-67 or equal; polyvinyl chloride
(PVC) conforming to commercial standard CS272-65 for PVC-DMV piping;
and shall be Schedule 40 or other suitable pipe approved by the Town
Council.
All joints and connections under this article
shall be made permanently gastight and watertight.
A.
The following type of joints shall be used:
(1)
All joints in vitrified clay pipes or between vitrified
clay pipe and metals shall be made by cementing with one part cement
and two parts sand, or by an approved hot poured asphaltic jointing
compound, or by an approved mechanical joint.
(2)
All PVC piping shall be of the socket type and assembly
made with solvent cement approved for PVC.
(3)
All joints in cement-asbestos sewer pipe shall be
made with rubber rings furnished by the manufacturer of the pipe and
installed in strict accordance with the recommendations of the manufacturer.
(4)
All joints in cast-iron piping shall be firmly packed
with oakum or hemp and secured with pure lead or other approved material,
not less than one inch deep.
B.
Adapters approved by the Superintendent shall be used
when changing from one kind of pipe to another. Any departure in type
of joint from the above shall be made only on the approval of the
Superintendent.
The building sewer, when laid in unstable, filled
or unsettled ground, shall be laid in a manner approved by the Superintendent.
The size and slope of the building sewer shall
be subject to the approval of the Superintendent, but in no event
shall the diameter be less than four inches. The slope of such four-inch
pipe shall not be less than 1/4 of an inch per foot. If a slope of
less than 1/4 of an inch per foot must be maintained, the minimum
diameter shall be six inches. In no case shall the slope be less than
1/8 of an inch per foot.
The building sewer shall be laid at a uniform
grade. Offsets or changes in direction shall be made only with properly
designed pipe fittings to permit the use of a sewer rod or by the
use of access manholes.
In any building for which the building sewer
is too low to permit gravity flow to the service connection, sewage
carried by such pipe shall be lifted by artificial means and discharged
to the service connection.
A suitable cleanout connection shall be installed
inside the building to permit cleaning the building sewer with a sewer
rod.
All excavations required for the building sewer
and/or service connection shall be open trench work unless otherwise
approved by the Superintendent. Pipe laying and backfilling shall
be done in accordance with the standard practice to provide proper
support, drainage and freedom from damage in backfilling. No excavations
will be left open overnight, except under unusual circumstances and
with prior approval of the Superintendent. No backfill shall be placed
until the pipe has been inspected. After inspection, no additional
connections shall be made to the building sewer.
The permittee shall notify the Superintendent
when the building sewer and/or service connection is ready for inspection.
The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent
or his agent. Inspection must be made within 48 hours of notice.
All excavations for the service connection from
the public right-of-way to the public sewer shall be adequately guarded
with barricades, signs, lights, and other means of traffic control
so as to protect the public from hazard. Sidewalks or other public
property disturbed in the course of installation or repair of a building
sewer and/or service connection shall be restored at the expense of
the owner of the property being served in a manner satisfactory to
the Superintendent.
The Town reserves the right to adopt, from time
to time, additional rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary
relating to connections with the sewerage system, which additional
rules and regulations, to the extent appropriate, shall become a part
of this chapter.
