A. Written Permit Obtained: No persons shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenances thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the City.
B. Application Submitted; Fees Paid: The owner or his agent shall make application on a 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 City. A permit and inspection fee shall be established by City Council resolution for residential, commercial and industrial building sewer permits and shall be paid to the City Treasurer at the time the application is filed. In addition, the owner shall pay the collection system connection fee as specified in this chapter. These fees shall be paid upon approval of plans submitted by the owner or at the time the building permit issued, whichever is earlier.
C. Costs And Expenses: All costs and expenses incident to the installment 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 be directly or indirectly occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
D. Separate Building Sewers Per Building: 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 building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
E. Sewer Pipe Specifications: Building sewer pipe shall be as specified in the Uniform Plumbing Code.
F. Sewer Below Basement Floor: Whenever possible the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. No building sewer shall be laid parallel to and within three feet (3') of any bearing wall, which might thereby be weakened.
G. Conformance With Sewer Department: In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer, in conformance with the Sewer Department Rules and Regulations.
H. Methods Of Construction: Methods of construction and inspection shall be as per this chapter and the Sewer Department rules and regulations.
I. Barricades And Lights: All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect 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, Highway District or other applicable public agency.
J. Substance Entering Or Leaving System: Provision for the connection of mobile home, travel trailer, or any other mobile unit to the sanitary sewage system may be made by a pipe connected to the sanitary sewer system in compliance with this section, and at all times not connected to a mobile unit must be sealed with a well casing, sealing plug, or comparable device in such manner as to stop any substance or gas from entering or leaving the sanitary sewer system.
K. Disconnection: No persons shall disconnect any sewage connection without first notifying the Maintenance Superintendent. After such notification the connection may be disconnected and sealed in such manner so as to prevent the passage of any substance, gas or odor into or out of said sewage line. Said patch or sealing shall not in any way impede the flow of sewage within the sewage line, and shall be of sufficient thickness, strength and design to equal the sewage line. The Superintendent shall be notified upon completion of sealing and any excavation for such a sealing shall be left open for sufficient time for the Superintendent to inspect the same.
L. Use Of Public Sewers: The use of the public sewers of the City shall be in accordance with the following regulations:
1. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, ground water, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer.
2. Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers or to dry wells. Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged, on approval of the City and Health Department, to dry wells or other disposal areas.
3. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
a. Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
b. Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids, organic chemicals or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage disposal process, constitute any hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant, including but not limited to cyanides in excess of two milligrams per liter (2 mg/L) as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer.
c. Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage works.
d. Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable of causing obstruction to flow in sewers, or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastic, wood, underground garbage, whole blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings, entrails, paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground by garbage.
4. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following described substance, materials, waters, or wastes, if it appears likely in the opinion of the City, Department of Health and Welfare or the North Central Health District, that such wastes can harm either the sewers, sewage disposal process or equipment, have an adverse effect on the receiving stream or groundwater, or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property, or constitute a nuisance. In forming its opinion as to the acceptability of these wastes, the City and Health District will give consideration to such facts as the quantities of subject wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage process, capacity of the sewage disposal system, degree of treatability of wastes in the sewage disposal system and other pertinent factors. The substances prohibited are those items listed as hazardous wastes by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the EPA priority pollutant list, or other substances deemed acceptable by the City, the North Central Health District or the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Division of Environment. (Ord. 275 § 2, 1989)