All materials and workmanship in the installation of building sewers and service connections shall conform to the following regulations:
(A) 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 Director. The permit is not to be issued until all sewer connection charges and fees have been paid in full.
(B) There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer permits:
1. General permits shall be applied for by the owner or his agent on a form provided by the Director. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Director at the time the application is filed. Also, the owner or his agent shall pay to Elko County, at the time the application is filed, a connection fee; and
2. Industrial user permits shall be applied for by the owner or his agent by letter to the Director accompanied by an executed copy of the industrial user agreement together with any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Director. Industrial user permits shall be approved by the Elko County Commissioners based on recommendation by the Engineer for the County. Approval shall be contingent upon the availability of excess capacity in the sewerage treatment plant, the provisions of this Chapter and any other considerations the Elko County Commissioners deem appropriate. The amount of the permit, inspection fee and hookup fee for an industrial wastes sewer service will vary with each permit, and shall be established by the Director at the time of application.
(C) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer and service connection shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify and hold harmless Elko County from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer and the marking of the service connection for the same to the public sewer.
(D) A separate and independent building sewer and service connection shall be provided for every building; except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no separate 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) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and being tested as required by Elko County, to meet all requirements of this Chapter.
(F) The materials of construction of the building sewer and service connections, 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 Codes as have been or may be adopted by Elko County.
(G) The building sewer from the building drain to the public sewer and the service connection thereto shall not be smaller than four inch (4") diameter sewer pipe. The minimum grade or slope of the building sewer shall be as follows:
1. Four inch (4") diameter sewer pipe shall be laid on a grade of not less than one-quarter inch (1/4") per foot (1').
2. Six inch (6") diameter sewer pipe shall be laid on a grade of not less than four feet (4') per one thousand feet (1,000').
The alignment of the building sewer from the outlet of the building drain to the public sewer connection shall be straight, with no bends, warps or sags permitted, except with the permission of the Director. The trench bottom shall be cut to proper grade so that when the pipe is laid the body or barrel of the pipe shall be on solid material. Bell holes are to be excavated in the trench bottom at all pipe joints.
(H) 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.
(I) The service connection to the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes 1 as adopted by Elko County. In addition, the materials and workmanship of the service connection shall meet the following requirements:
1. A precast service connection fitting shall be installed as an increment of the sewer pipe line or installed as an external fabrication to the sewer pipe line, said fabrication to be installed within the center one-third (1/3) of an individual laying length of the public sewer pipe, as a precaution in preventing the breaking of the bell or the spigot end of the sewer pipe. The service connection fitting shall be installed as a water-tight connection to the public sewer, care being taken not to extend the building sewer line into the public sewer line, therefore creating a possible restriction. The invert of the building sewer line at the service connection fitting shall be at an elevation above the invert of the public sewer at least equal to two-thirds (2/3) of the diameter of the public sewer. All foreign materials shall be removed from the sewer pipe, and there shall be a permanent connection which is air-tight and watertight between the public sewer line and the building sewer line; and
2. The building sewer service connection fitting to reinforced sewer pipe lines shall be made as specified under subsection (I)1 herein, except that in cutting a hole in reinforced pipe for installation of the service connection tee, extreme care shall be exercised to avoid damage to the pipe. The hole for the tee shall be carefully chipped first to expose the reinforcing steel and the steel cut by torch or saw. No chisel cutting of the reinforcing steel of any character will be permitted.
In lieu of a standard service connection fitting, a riser service connection may be made to sewer lines that are deep below ground surface. The branch or riser shall be connected the same as a tee, except that it shall be set vertically over the public sewer pipe, and extended vertically upward such that the top of the riser is not to be less than five feet (5') below the surface of the ground.
(J) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer.
(K) 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 Director; and
(L) The connection of the building sewer to the public sewer shall be made by a plumber holding a valid Elko County plumbing permit and a validated Elko County plumbing license.
Notes
| 1 | 1. See Title 3, Chapter 1 of this Code. |