(A) Permit Required: 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 approving authority.
(B) Building Sewer Permits:
1. There shall be the following classes of building sewer permits:
(a) For residential and commercial service, and
(b) For service to establishments producing industrial wastes. (Ord. 76-9, 10-25-1976, eff. 11-1-1976)
In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the approving authority. The industry as a condition of permit authorization must provide information describing the wastewater constituents characteristics, quantity and type of activity. (Ord. 76-9, 10-25-1976, eff. 11-1-1976; amd. 2018 Code)
2. 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.
(C) Inspection: The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the approving authority when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the approving authority or his representative. (Ord. 76-9, 10-25-1976, eff. 11-1-1976)
(D) Costs And Expenses:
1. Owner Responsible: All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of a building sewer shall be borne by the owner. All costs and expenses of the maintenance of and/or replacement of the sewer service connection line from the City sewer main to the resident or business building shall be the responsibility of the owner. The owner shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation, maintenance and/or replacement of the building sewer. (Ord. 93-9, 8-10-1993)
2. Sewer Connection Fee: There shall be a charge of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for connection to the City sewage system. (Ord. 93-9, 8-10-1993; amd. 2018 Code)
3. Demolition Of Buildings: Upon the demolition of any building the owner shall be responsible for all necessary costs to disconnect the sewer service at the public sewer main. (Ord. 93-9, 8-10-1993)
(E) Requirements And Specifications:
1. 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. The size, slope, alignment, materials or 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 City. 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.
3. 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 subsection (G)1 of this section, and discharged to the building sewer, the cost of such means shall be borne by the owner.
4. 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 City, 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 gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the approving authority before installation.
5. Old building sewers may be used in connection with any new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the approving authority, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(F) Excavations And Protection Of Public Ways: 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.
(G) Discharges Restricted:
1. All disposal by any person into the sewer system shall be unlawful except discharges in compliance with Federal standards and any more stringent State and local standards.
2. No person shall make connection 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. (Ord. 76-8, 10-25-1976)