(a) The owner of any house, building, structure, premises, or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the county and/or the local unit, and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way, in which there is located, or may in the future be located, a public storm sewer, is hereby required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable enclosed piping to convey discharge from foundation/footing drains with or without sump pumps to the public storm sewer. A pipe conveying surface runoff or groundwater shall not be connected to the sanitary sewer.
(b) For any connection or discharge found of unpolluted water into the sanitary sewer system please refer to the City’s sewer regulation (Section 1044.004(a) and (b), Discharge Prohibited Without Required Approvals Permits, and Treatment).
(c) When a sump pump is employed to discharge a building’s footing drains, a check valve will be installed between the pump and the storm system. A gravity discharge to an enclosed system is not permitted unless it can be shown that the discharge point is above the overflow elevation for the storm water system.
(d) A storm water lateral shall be provided for each parcel at the time of storm sewer construction.
(Ord. 2015-01. Passed 1-26-15; Ord. 2020-03. Passed 4-27-20.)