No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenances thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the Superintendent.
There shall be two classes of building sewer
permits: for residential and commercial service and 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 Village. 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 of $10 for a residential
or commercial building sewer permit and $25 for an industrial building
sewer permit shall be paid to the Village at the time the application
is filed.
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.
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 and the whole considered
as one building sewer.
A.
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 chapter.
B.
The size, slope, alignment and 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[1] or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village
and shall be subject to the approval of the Superintendent. In no
event shall the diameter of such pipe be less than four inches, nor
shall the slope of such four-inch pipe be less than one-fourth inch
per foot.
C.
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 approved artificial means and discharged to the building
sewer.
D.
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 or to a combined sewer after enactment of this chapter.
E.
The connection of the building sewer into the public
sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing
Code[2] or other applicable rules and regulations of the Village
or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM
and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. 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 excavation 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 Village.
