(A) Tapping or connecting with sanitary sewer mains. No person shall make any service lateral tap or make any connection whatsoever with any sanitary sewer main owned or controlled by the town, and all taps and connections shall be made only by the town or its duly authorized agents or employees.
(B) Tap and lines.
(1) Application; fee.
(a) Service lateral tap. Any person desiring a service lateral tap to any sanitary sewer main owned or controlled by the town shall make application to the Town Clerk’s office and shall pay in advance to the town the set fee(s) established by the Board of Aldermen, which shall be filed with the Town Clerk, for making the service lateral tap.
(b) Existing taps and lines. If a new applicant can find an existing tap and its sewer lateral where an old building existed, the new applicant may use the tap and its sewer lateral along with the buildings lateral if, in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are in acceptable structural condition and operate satisfactorily.
(2) Separate connections. Excluding industrial plant sites or other sites which have written approval from the Superintendent for single discharge points, 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, courtyard or driveway, the front building sewer may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer; but the town does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any single connection aforementioned.
(3) Point of connection. The town or its duly authorized agents or employees shall install its proportion of the sewer lateral from its main sanitary sewer line to the edge of right-of-way and the owner’s property line. All connections to the town’s lateral line shall be made secure and water-tight, and subject to acceptance by the Superintendent.
(4) Pipes. No service shall be installed unless it conforms with the State Building Code, Volume II, Plumbing.
(5) Excavations. All excavations for installing service pipes or repairing the same shall be made in compliance with the ordinance provisions relating to making excavations in streets (§ 94.001); provided that it shall be unlawful to place any service pipe in the same excavation with, or directly over, any drain or water pipe.
(6) Repairs. It shall be the responsibility of the property owner(s) to keep and maintain the building sewer connected to the public sewer in good repair. The owner(s) shall be responsible for making necessary repairs, at his or her own expense, to the building sewer when notified in writing by the town that repairs are necessary. Should the owner fail to repair the building sewer within 60 days after receiving written notification by the town that the repairs are necessary, the town may make the necessary repairs to the building sewer and shall assess the owner(s) for the cost of the repairs.
(7) Down spouts and the like. No person(s) shall make connection of roof down spouts, foundations drains, area way drains or other sources of infiltration/inflow to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(8) Grease, oil and sand interceptor.
(a) Commonly referred to as "grease traps" or "grease interceptors", these devices shall be required to be installed, at the exclusive cost of the property owner, when, in the opinion of the Superintendent, they are, or become necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing floatable oil, grease complexes, sand, or other harmful ingredients in excessive amounts. Grease interceptors shall not be required for single or multi-family dwelling units or other private living quarters, except that, in the case of mobile home parks or campgrounds, wherein individual sewer connections from each mobile home or camp-site space join together to become a common flow prior to entering the town system, and such common flows, in any instance, exhibit excessive amounts of floatable oil, grease complexes, sand or other harmful ingredients, then the Town Manager, or designee, shall order the owner(s) of said mobile home park, or campground at his/their exclusive cost to properly install and maintain a grease interceptor in a location "upstream" and prior to the mobile home park common flow entering the town system. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity, and to precise engineering specifications, as approved by the Superintendent, and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. Where installed, all greases, oil, and sand interceptors shall be maintained by the owner(s) at his/their expense in continuously efficient operation at all times. If the owner(s) fail(s) to timely comply with an order to install a grease interceptor as described herein, the town shall arrange for and complete said installation and all costs associated therewith shall be assessed against said owner(s) and become a liability of the owner(s) so assessed.
(b) In the maintaining of these interceptors, the owner(s) shall be responsible for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the captured material(s) and shall maintain records of the dates and means of disposal which are subject to review by the Superintendent. Any removal and hauling of the collected material(s) not performed by owner(s) personnel must be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
(9) Indemnification. The owner(s) shall indemnify the town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer; provided, however, that the indemnification shall not extend to loss or damage due solely to willful misconduct or negligence on the part of the town.
(Prior Code, § F-II-3) (Ord. passed 9-8-2015)