(A) Any new connection(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, BOD5, and suspended solids.
(B) 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 city.
(C) Applications for permits shall be made by the owner or their authorized agent and the party employed to do the work, and shall state the location, name of owner, street number of the building to be connected, and how occupied. No person shall extend any private building drain beyond the limits of the building or property for which the service connection permit has been given.
(D) There shall be 2 classes of building sewer permits: for residential and for commercial service, and for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgement of the city. The industry, as a condition of permits authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics, and type of activity.
(E) All costs and expense and liabilities incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the city from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer including repair and/or replacement of streets and sidewalks.
(F) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except that where 1 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 1 building sewer. Subdivision of such lots shall not be permitted until separate sewer lines are installed. The city does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any connection aforementioned.
(G) Old building sewers may be used to connect buildings only when they are found on examination and testing by the IGU to meet all requirements of this subchapter.
(H) 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 Building and Plumbing Code and 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, State Plumbing Code, Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
(I) 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.
(J) No person shall make or maintain connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or indirectly to the wastewater disposal system.
(K) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the State Building and Plumbing Code and applicable rules and regulations of the city or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All connections shall be made gastight and watertight, and verified by proper testing to prevent the inclusion of infiltration/inflow. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the city prior to installation.
(L) 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 inspection shall be made under the supervision of IGU or authorized representative thereof. The line shall be exposed until inspection completed.
(M) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect 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.
(N) Any person desiring to make a service connection to the public sewer shall comply with the conditions set forth by the IGU.
(O) No person shall make a service connection to the public sewer other than a licensed, bonded contractor. Application is filed with the IGU conditioned that the person will indemnify and save harmless the city from all suits, accidents, and damage that may arise by reason of any opening in any street, alley or public ground, made by the person or by those in the person’s employment for any purpose whatever, and that the person will replace and restore the street and alley over such opening to the condition existing prior to installation, adequately guard with barricades and lights and will keep and maintain the same to the satisfaction of the IGU, and shall conform in all respects to the rules and regulations of the IGU relative thereto, and pay all fines that may be imposed on the person by law.
(P) The Council may suspend or revoke any permit issued under this section and may take such other action as it may deem reasonable in order to facilitate compliance for any of the following causes:
(1) Giving false information in connection with the application for a permit.
(2) Willful violation of any provisions of this section or any rule or regulation pertaining to the mixing of service connections.
(Ord. 203.1, passed 9-1-1987; Am. Ord. 2011-06-07D, passed 6-7-2011)