(A) Connection and use permits.
(1) (a) No unauthorized person shall uncover, use, alter, disturb or make any connections with or opening into any wastewater sewer or a storm sewer, nor shall any person discharge any substance into such sewers, without possessing a valid connection and use permit of a class appropriate to the use of the premises and the discharges to the wastewater facilities therefrom.
(b) All persons presently using the village wastewater facilities shall be deemed to possess a valid connection and use permit, which shall continue until:
1. The person significantly changes the flow, strength or other characteristics of the discharges to the village’s wastewater facilities;
2. The permit is suspended by the DPW Supervisor as provided in this section; or
3. Additional connections to the village’s wastewater facilities are made.
(2) (a) There shall be three classes of permits for connections to and use of the village’s wastewater facilities:
1. Class I - Residential Users;
2. Class II - Commercial Users; and
3. Class III - Industrial Users.
(b) In all cases, the owner shall make application on a form furnished by the village for a permit of the applicable class to connect to the village’s wastewater facilities. The permit application shall be supplemented by the wastewater information as required by the DPW Supervisor to administer this subchapter. A permit and inspection fee in an amount determined by rate resolution of the Village Council shall be paid to the village at the time an application is filed.
(3) The DPW Supervisor may deny a connection and use permit if the application for permit shows that anticipated discharges will be harmful to the village’s wastewater facilities, will violate the provisions of this section or in any other way will hamper the operations of those facilities. The DPW Supervisor may require, as a condition to granting the permit, that the applicant enter into an agreement as set forth in § 50.08(C) of this code.
(4) The DPW Supervisor shall not issue a connection and use permit for any applicant unless there is sufficient capacity not legally committed to other users in the wastewater sewers and treatment facilities to convey and adequately treat the quantity and quality of wastewater which the requested connection will add to the system. The DPW Supervisor may allow the permit if there are legally binding commitments to provide the needed capacity.
(5) The DPW Supervisor may, upon notice of violation as required in § 50.03(D) of this code, suspend any connection and use permit for violation of the terms of this section.
(B) Connection costs. The costs and expenses incidental to the building sewer installation and connection to the village wastewater facilities 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.
(C) Separate connections required; exception.
(1) 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 in the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(2) The village assumes no responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any single building sewer which serves two buildings.
(D) Existing building sewers. Existing building sewers may be used for connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the DPW Supervisor, to meet the requirements of this section.
(E) Building sewer design.
(1) The size, slope, alignment, construction materials, trench excavation and backfill methods, pipe placements, jointing and testing methods used in the construction and installation of the building sewer shall conform to the building and plumbing codes or other applicable requirements of the village.
(2) In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF shall apply.
(F) Building sewer elevation. Whenever practicable, the building sewer shall be brought to a building at an elevation below the basement floor. In buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the village’s wastewater sewer, wastewater carried by the building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to a building sewer draining to the village sewer.
(G) Connections to natural outlets or storm sewers. No person shall connect roof, foundation, areaway, parking lot, roadway or other surface runoff or groundwater drains to any sewer which is connected to the village’s wastewater treatment system unless the connection is required for purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage and is approved in writing by the DPW Supervisor.
(H) Conformance to applicable codes.
(1) The connection of a building sewer into a wastewater sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes, or other applicable requirements of the village, or the procedures set forth in the appropriate specifications of the ASTM or the WPCF. The connections shall be made gas-tight and water-tight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved in writing by the DPW Supervisor before installation.
(2) The connection of a surface runoff or groundwater drain to a storm sewer or natural outlet that is designed to transport surface runoff or groundwater drainage shall conform to the requirements of the applicable building code or other applicable requirements of the village. The connection of any such drain to a wastewater outlet requires a special permit, as provided under division (G) above, and shall conform to the requirements specified by the DPW Supervisor as a condition of approval of the permit.
(I) Connection inspection. The applicant for a building sewer or other drainage connection and use permit shall notify the DPW Supervisor when the sewer or drainage connection is ready for inspection prior to its connection to the village’s wastewater facilities, and upon payment of any fees required by the village, inspection and testing as deemed necessary by the DPW Supervisor and as required by village building and plumbing codes shall be conducted.
(J) Excavation guards and property restoration. Excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, pathways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the village.
(Prior Code, § 50.06) (Ord. 21, passed 10-19-1993) Penalty, see § 50.99