a. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sanitary sewer or appurtenance thereof.
b. A building sewer permit as required by the State Plumbing Law shall be obtained from the Office of the Plumbing Inspector before constructing any building sewer. The building sewer permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Plumbing Inspector.
c. 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 City and BGMU from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer. Tapping of public sewer main lines, installation of wyes in the public sanitary sewer lines and extension of wyes in the public sanitary sewer main lines and of sewer lateral lines to owner’s property, when required, shall be performed by BGMU at the owner’s expense.
d. 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, then the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer. The City or BGMU, however, does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
e. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are determined by the Plumbing Inspector to meet all requirements of this Subchapter and all applicable laws and regulations.
f. The size, slope, 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 Commonwealth of Kentucky Plumbing Code, BGMU’s “Water and Sewer System Improvement Specification Manual,” or other applicable rules and regulations of the Commonwealth and the City. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. (American Society of Testing and Materials) and W.P.C.F. (Water Pollution Control Federation) Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
g. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sanitary sewer, wastewater carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer, in accordance to the specifications outlined in BGMU’s “Water and Sewer System Improvement Specification Manual.” All such required lifting devices shall be installed, owned and maintained by owner(s) of property being served by the lifting devices.
h. No person(s) shall make connection of roof down-spouts, 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. Existing conditions of this type shall be disconnected from discharging into the public sanitary sewer by owner at owner’s expense.
i. The connection of the building sewer into the public sanitary sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Plumbing Code, BGMU’s “Water and Sewer System Improvement Specification Manual,” or other applicable rules and regulations of the Commonwealth or the City, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and the W.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing.
j. The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify 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 Plumbing Inspector.
k. All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, park-ways, and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City.
l. All costs and expense incident to the maintenance of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner, to include removal of any obstructions, except where it can be shown to the satisfaction of the General Manager that the building sewer has physically collapsed between the owner’s property line and the public sanitary sewer. The costs and expense of repairing the collapsed building sewer between the owner’s property line and the public sanitary sewer will be borne by BGMU.
(Ord. BG80-63, S27-123, 7/15/80, Ord. BG86-60, 12/16/86; Ord. BG2001-5, 2/20/2001; Ord. BG2014-11, 6/3/2014; Ord. BG2017-22, 6/6/2017)