(A) (1) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with an opening into; use; alter; or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the village.
(2) All disposal by any person into the sewer system is unlawful except those discharges in compliance with federal standards promulgated pursuant to the federal Act and more stringent state and local standards.
(B) The owner, or his or her agent, shall make application for a building sewer permit on a special form furnished by the Village Clerk. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. A permit and inspection fee of $50 dollars for a building sewer permit shall be paid to the Treasurer at the time the application is filed. An industry, as a condition of permit authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics, and type of activity.
(C) A building sewer permit will only be issued and a sewer connection shall only be allowed if it can be demonstrated that the downstream sewerage facilities, including sewers, pump stations, and wastewater treatment facilities, have sufficient reserve capacity to adequately and efficiently handle the additional anticipated waste load.
(D) All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the village from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(E) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except that 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 building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(F) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(G) (1) The building sewer shall be constructed of one of the following: Cast Iron Soil Pipe ASTM A74 with rubber or neoprene joints Vitrified Clay Pipe ASTM C-700 with C-425 flexible gasket joints Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Pipe ASTM D3034 type PSM with standard dimension ratio of 35 with solvent welded joints ASTM D2855 or flexible elastomeric seals ASTM D3212.
(2) If more than one type of sewer pipe is used, it shall be connected by tight and waterproof adapters especially designed for such joining and approved by the Superintendent. All joints shall be watertight.
(3) Size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the superintendent but in no event shall the diameter be less then six inches and slope less than one-eighth inch per foot.
(H) 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 a means which is approved in accordance with division (B) above, and discharged to the building sewer.
(I) All excavations required for the installation of the building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Superintendent. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM C12-19 except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected. 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 the manner satisfactory to the Superintendent.
(J) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the “Y” or “T” branch, if such branch is available at a suitable location. If no properly located “Y” or “T” branch is available, the owner shall at his expense install a “Y” or “T” branch in the public sewer at the location specified by the Superintendent. Special fittings may be used for the connection only when approved by the Superintendent. The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent, or his or her representative.
(K) During the time of excavation, and as long as an excavated area remains open so as to get as a catch basin, any sewer tile or drainage outlet designed to service the excavated area shall at all times be either capped or furnished with a sufficient standpipe so as to eliminate the possibility of any rain or surface water collecting or draining into the excavated area, and hence into the outlets and accordingly into the sewer system of the village.
(L) No person(s) 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.
(Ord. passed 1-16-1979)