[Amended 9-28-2010 by Ord. No. O-10-16]
All costs and expenses incident to the installation
and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner.
The owner shall indemnify and hold harmless the City from any loss
or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation
of the building sewer. The Utility Department – Wastewater Division
shall have no duty, obligation or responsibility with respect to maintenance
of wastewater piping, equipment or apparatus on the premises of any
wastewater customer. "Customer premises" will be defined as any property
that is located behind the curb or the property line in absence of
a curb.
A separate and independent building sewer shall
be provided for every building, unless it is determined by the approving
authority that it would be impractical to do so or would cause undue
hardship to the owner. The determination as to whether to allow an
exception shall be within the discretion of the approving authority.
A separate permit shall be required for each structure or unit serviced,
even though the whole may constitute a single building sewer.
Existing building sewers may be used in connection
with new buildings only when:
A.
Proper application is made for a sanitary sewer connection permit under the provisions of Article IV of this chapter;
B.
The application is approved by the approving authority;
and
C.
The building sewer is found, on examination and test
by the approving authority and Plumbing Inspector, to meet all requirements
of this chapter and those of the Plumbing Code and all other applicable
federal, state, county and City statutes, ordinances and regulations.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction
of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, bedding,
placing of pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling and trench shall
all conform to the requirements of the Plumbing Code and other applicable
rules and regulations of the City. In the absence of the code provisions
or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth
in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WEF Manuals of Practice
shall apply. All building sewers shall be laid from the service connection
or the point of connection to the public sanitary sewer to the building
drain. All such connections shall be subject to inspection by the
approving authority and the Plumbing Inspector.
[Amended 4-23-1996 by Ord. No. 1996-7]
A.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought
to the building drain 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 sanitary sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such
a building sewer shall be lifted by a means approved by the approving
authority and the Plumbing Inspector and discharged to the building
sewer. All costs and expenses incident to the proper installation,
operation and maintenance of said means of lifting the sewage shall
be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify and hold harmless
the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be
occasioned by the installation, operation and maintenance of said
means of lifting the sewer.
B.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the construction,
installation or use of low-pressure grinder pump systems, or any similar
installations or facilities, shall not be directly connected to a
building sewer or any public sanitary sewer in order to provide sanitary
sewer service to a private dwelling or existing unit(s). No low-pressure
grinder pump systems shall be donated, transferred or dedicated, impliedly
or directly, to the City of Hagerstown for ownership, maintenance
or operation, except as otherwise provided herein.
C.
The Mayor and Council of the City of Hagerstown may,
within its absolute discretion, make exceptions to the provisions(s)
of this section for low-pressure grinder pump construction, installation
or use in connection with the City water pollution control system,
provided that same meets standards and specifications of the City,
and further provided that said permission and granting of an exception,
in each and every instance and installation, be by formal vote of
the Mayor and Council at a duly authorized and constituted public
meeting.
D.
This chapter does not apply to existing low-pressure
pump systems constructed or approved by the Water and Sewer Department
of the City of Hagerstown prior to the effective date of this section.
E.
In addition to the standard service charge rates for
all classes of customers, customers with low-pressure sewer service
with grinder pumps shall be charged a low-pressure service surcharge
for the additional cost of maintaining the low-pressure system. The
quarterly surcharge shall continue to be $97.80 per each grinder pump
serving one unit and $53.73 per each grinder pump serving two units.
[Added 5-28-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-15; amended 5-25-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-28; 7-12-2005 by Ord. No. O-05-19; 6-20-2006 by Ord. No. O-06-17; 5-22-2007 by Ord. No. O-07-15; 5-27-2008 by Ord. No. O-08-19; 9-22-2009 by Ord. No. O-09-13; 2-25-2014 by Ord. No. O-14-02; 4-23-2019 by Ord. No. O-19-03[1]]
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Editor’s Note: This ordinance also provided that it
shall be effective 30 days after passage, with the increases in rates
effective for all bills rendered on or after July 1, 2019, and for
all bills rendered on or after July 1 of the subsequent four fiscal
years.
No person shall make a connection of roof downspouts,
exterior foundation 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. If any owner shall,
after notice as provided herein, refuse or neglect to disconnect any
such illegal connection from the public sanitary sewerage system,
the City shall cause the disconnection to be made at the sole expense
of the owner. This expense shall be a lien against the property as
provided by law.
The connection of the building sewer into the
public sanitary sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Plumbing
Code and other applicable rules and regulations of the City. All such
connections shall be sealed to prevent infiltration and exfiltration
of gas and water. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and
materials must be approved in writing by the approving authority and
the Plumbing Inspector before installation.
The applicant for the sanitary sewer connection
permit shall notify the approving authority and the Plumbing Inspector
when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to
the public sanitary sewer. The connection shall be made under the
supervision of the approving authority and the Plumbing Inspector
or his representative.
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
accordance with the existing City standards and specifications.
