(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 Village Board of Trustees.
(B) All disposal by any person into the sewer system is unlawful, except those discharges in compliance with federal standards promulgated pursuant to the Federal Act and more stringent state and local standards.
(C) (1) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(a) For residential, wastewater service; and
(b) To commercial, institutional/governmental or industrial wastewater service.
(2) In either case, the owner or his or her 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 Village Board of Trustees. A permit and inspection fee of $200 for a residential or commercial building sewer permit shall be paid to the village at the time the application is filed. The industry, as a condition of permit authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics and type of activity.
(D) A building sewer permit will only be issued and a sewer connection shall only be allowed if it can be demonstrated that the downstream sewerage facilities, including sewers, pump stations and wastewater treatment facilities, have sufficient reserve capacity to adequately and efficiently handle the additional anticipated waste load.
(E) 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 village from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(F) (1) Separate sewer required/exceptions. 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.
(2) Sewer and storm sewer fees. As long as a building which has been connected to the village sewer remains on a property and has not been demolished (or is not in the process of being demolished), charges for the use and maintenance of the village sewer and the use of the storm sewer (which currently amount to $40.40/month) will continue to accrue and must be paid as long as water service is being provided and the account has not been closed. (An account shall be closed, under the village’s water regulations, if the utility bill remains unpaid 90 days or more after its mailing.)
(3) Capping requirement. When a building is to be demolished, the sewer must be capped at the stub within four feet of the main either by the Village Superintendent or an authorized agent or representative of the village or by a professional plumber retained by the property owner and performed under the direct supervision of a village representative. The sewer use and maintenance cost and the storm sewer fee will not be charged to a vacant property that has a properly capped sewer.
(4) Capping fee. If a sewer is required to be capped, as required above or by state law, but is not, the village may arrange for the capping and charge the cost to the property owner, and it may issue a fine or penalty for the failure to comply with the village sewer regulations. The village’s charge to cap the sewer shall be $150 per hour or the fee that would be charged by a professional plumber to do so, whichever is greater.
(G) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and testing by the Village Mayor, to meet all requirements of this chapter. 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 back filling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the village. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society of Testing Materials, Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9 and Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Main Construction in Illinois shall apply.
(H) (1) The public sewer is not designed to be low enough to drain basements.
(2) 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 (B) above and discharged to the building sewer.
(I) (1) No person(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer or building drain, which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(2) 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 village or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society of Testing Materials, Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9 and Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Main Construction in Illinois. All such connections shall be made gas-tight and water-tight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Village Board of Trustees before installation.
(J) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Village Board of Trustees when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Village Board of Trustees or its representative.
(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, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the village.
(Ord. 303, passed 4-11-2001 Ord. 395, passed 1-13-2016; Ord. 426, passed 10-14-2020; Ord. 431, passed 4-14-2021; Ord. 434, passed 8-11-2021) Penalty, see § 52.99