(A) No authorized person(s) 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 city.
(B) Applications for permits shall be made by the owner or authorized agent and the party employed to do the work and shall state the location, name of owner, street number of building to be connected and how occupied. No person shall extend any private drain beyond the limits of the building or property for which the service connection permit has been given. Any person who desires to construct, reconstruct, extend or alter a service connection shall, before beginning work, file with the city a plan showing the whole course of the service connection and all branches, traps and fixtures connected therewith. If the city finds that the plan does not conform to the requirements of this chapter, the city shall not issue a permit for such work.
(C) All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be paid by the owner(s). The owner(s) shall indemnify the city from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(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, the front building sewer may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer. The city does not have 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 found on examination and test by the Superintendent or his or her representative to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(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 State of Minnesota Building and Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the city. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
(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 an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(H) No person(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer 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 State of Minnesota Building and Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the city or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the city before installation.
(J) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the city when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or his or her 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 city.
(L) No person licensed under this chapter shall allow his or her name to be used by any other person, either for the purpose of obtaining permits or doing any work under his or her license; and every licensee shall record in the City Clerk-Treasurer’s office his or her place of business, the name under which the business is transacted and shall immediately notify the City Clerk-Treasurer or agents of any change.
(M) Any new connections(s) to the sanitary sewer system shall be prohibited unless sufficient capacity is available in all downstream facilities, including, but not limited to, capacity for flow, BOD and suspended solids.
(Ord. 144, passed 12-18-96; Am. Ord. 20-06, passed 10-13-20)