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The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purpose, situated within the city 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 sewer of the city, is hereby required at his or her expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this article, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so; provided, that said public sewer is within 140 feet of the property line.
(a) No 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 city.
(b) There shall be charged a fee of $20, payable at the time of making application for the permit.
(Prior Code, § 15-303)
(a) Any person desiring to make a connection to the city sewer system shall apply in writing to the City Clerk who shall forward the application to the Utility Superintendent.
(b) The application shall contain:
(1) The legal description of the property to be connected;
(2) The name and address of the owner or owners of the property;
(3) The kind of property to be connected (residential, commercial or industrial); and
(4) The point of proposed connection to the city sewer line.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the “Y” branch if such branch is available at a suitable location. Where no properly located “Y” branch is available, the connection shall be made in the manner approved by the Utility Superintendent and at a location designated by the Superintendent.
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 feasiblely constructed to the rear building. In such case, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
The building sewer shall be constructed of cast iron pipe, ASTM specifications A74-42, or approved equal; vitrified clay sewer pipe, ASTM specifications C13-44T, or approved equal; or an approved plastic pipe. Any plastic pipe to be installed on any building sewer shall not be approved by the city until the owner has furnished descriptive literature and typical sample section of the plastic pipe proposed for installation, to the city for inspection and review. All joints on all pipe installed shall be tight and water- proof. Any part of the building sewer that is located within ten feet of a water service pipe or city water main shall be constructed of approved cast iron soil pipe with approved joints. No building sewer shall be installed within three feet of existing gas lines. If installed in filled or unstable ground, the building sewer shall be constructed of cast iron soil pipe, except that non-metallic material may be accepted if laid on a suitable concrete bed or cradle as approved by the city.
The size and slope of the building sewer to be installed shall be subject to the approval of the City Inspector, but in no event shall the diameter of the pipe be less than four inches. The slope at which a six inch pipe is to be laid shall be not less than one-eighth inch per foot and for four inch pipe, not less than one-fourth inch per foot. Any grades for the pipe, which are proposed for installation at grades less than these specified, shall be approved by the City Inspector prior to placement.
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 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 a uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with approved curved pipe and fittings, including cleanout fittings.
At buildings in which the 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. The use of any pumping equipment for which cross-connections with a public water supply system are needed, is prohibited. The total costs of pumping equipment and pumping equipment operational costs shall be those of the owner.
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