(a) Prohibition on unpolluted water. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged an (unpolluted) surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, storm water, subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process waters to any sanitary sewer. Any existing roof drain connections to sanitary or combined sewers shall be connected into an available storm sewer or shall be disconnected above ground in appropriate manner approved by the Village. Discharges from roof drains emptying onto the ground surface shall be at least three feet from adjacent property line and shall in no way be directed to flood or otherwise cause damage to adjoining property. The owner of any building(s) situated within the Village is required at his expense to disconnect all existing roof drains from sanitary and combined sewers in accordance with the provisions of this section within 180 days after the date of official notice to do so. Discharge units connecting to Village sanitary sewer or combination sewer shall be free of all storm water. It is prohibited that any new construction of discharge units shall have any storm water connections of roof drains, footer, foundation tiles or any other connection to sanitary sewer. The Village retains the right to prohibit new taps to the system if said tap would cause the capacity of the system to be exceeded.
(b) Allowable discharge of unpolluted water. Storm water and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Village and other regulatory agencies.
(c) Wastewater discharge.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the Village of Greenwich, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Village, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
(2) It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within the Village of Greenwich, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said Village any sanitary sewage, industrial wastes , or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
(3) Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
(4) The owner of all houses, building or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation, or other purpose, situated within the Village and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the Village, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities herein, and to connect such facilities directly to an approved septic tank and proper sewer if upstream from a permitted combine sewer overflow in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 180 days after date of official notice to do so, provided that a foundation wall of the structure from which sewage originates is 200 feet or less from the nearest boundary of the right-of-way within which the sewer is located.
(d) Building Sewers and Connections.
(1) 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 Administrator.
(2) Permits for connection to the public sewer shall be obtained upon making application to the Administrator upon forms provided. The application shall be accompanied by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent by the Administrator. A connection charge of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall be due and payable at the time application is made, except for service to any properties that were subject to a special assessment upon the initial construction of the system. The Village shall, at its expense, extend the public sewer to the right-of-way line ending with a "Tee" connection, to which the building sewer shall be connected. All connections shall be made only by an approved person established by the Village Administrator.
(3) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection or the building sewer from the building to the right-of-way line 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.
(4) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where one building stands at the rear of another on a interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be construed 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.
(5) Old building sewers may be used in connection with the new building only when they are found, on examination and test by the Administrator, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(6) The building sewer shall be PVC sewer pipe, ASTM specification (D3034 or 3033) or equal; or other suitable material approved by the Administrator. Joints shall be tight and waterproof. Any part of the building sewer that is located within ten feet of a water service pipe or twenty-five feet of a well shall be constructed of water line equivalent.
(7) The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the Administrator.
(8) No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall, which might thereby be weakened. The depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight alignment in so far as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings.
(9) 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.
(10) All exactions required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Administrator. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM specification (C12-19) except that no backfill shall be placed until the connection has been inspected.
(11) All joints and connections shall be made watertight.
(12) The applicant for the sewer connection permit shall notify the Administrator at least forty-eight hours in advance when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Administrator or his representative.
(13) 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 way and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored is a manner satisfactory to the Village.
(14) Each and every septic tank shall incorporate a watertight seal of such size and construction as approved by the Administrator.
(Ord. 2009-07. Passed 8-18-09; Ord. 2016-07. Passed 8-17-16.)