(A) No unauthorized 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 Argenta Sanitary District.
(B) (1) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(a) For residential, wastewater service, and
(b) Commercial, institutional/governmental or industrial wastewater service.
(2) In either case, the owner or the owner’s agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the Argenta Sanitary District. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Argenta Sanitary District and Sanitary District of Decatur.
(C) All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner of the building. The owner shall indemnify the Village of Argenta from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of building the sewer.
(D) 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, courtyard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(E) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings and/or new connections to the sanitary sewer only when they are tested by a licensed plumber and found to pass the building sewer testing standards of the Illinois Plumbing Code.
(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 building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the Argenta Sanitary District.
(G) 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 a means which is approved in accordance with division (H) below, and discharged to the building sewer.
(H) No person(s) shall make connections 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.
(I) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code, or other applicable rules and regulations of the Argenta Sanitary District, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society of Testing Materials, Water Environment Federation/ASCE Manual of Practice No. 9, and Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Main Construction in Illinois. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight.
(J) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard.
(Ord. 11-09-19-11, passed 9-19-2011)