(a) No storm water or roof water leader shall be connected with the sanitary sewer or sanitary sewer connection. Whenever the elevation of the sanitary sewer is such that it can be done, the service connection shall be brought into the building at such an elevation that it will drain the basement.
(b) In all buildings in which the whole or part of the drainage and plumbing system thereof lies below the service connection, the crown of the sanitary sewer shall be connected by gravity in an airtight receiving tank or sump lifted by artificial means and discharged into the service connection.
(c) All construction of storm sewers and driveway pipes shall be of reinforced concrete pipe twelve inches diameter or greater, polyvinyl chloride eighteen inches diameter or less, or polyethylene pipe thirty inches diameter or less, so as to protect the public from hazard, to prohibit the rusting of galvanized, steel, or other pipe, or the bending or crushing of such other pipe. “Driveway pipe” means a reinforced concrete twelve inches diameter or greater, polyvinyl chloride eighteen inches diameter or less, or polyethylene thirty inches diameter or less conduit through which storm or surface water is intended to travel, within the street right of way, and such pipe or conduit usually being more or less parallel to the street, and such pipe or conduit usually being under a driveway, parking lot or other construction. Specifications of the pipe shall be prepared by the Village Engineer and pipe shall meet one of the following specifications:
(1) ASTMC-76-Reinforced Concrete, Storm Drain and Sewer Pipe.
(2) ASTM C-507-Reinforced Concrete Elliptical Culvert, Storm Drain and Sewer Pipe.
(3) ASTM C-3034-Type PSM Polyvinyl Chloride Sewer Pipe and Fittings.
(4) ODOT C-707.33-Smooth Lined Corrugated Polyethylene Pipe.
(d) The size of the reinforced concrete, polyvinyl chloride or polyethylene pipe which is to be utilized in the storm sewer or driveway pipe construction mentioned in this and/or the preceding section shall be determined by the various public officials involved, including, but not limited to the Manager, or Village Engineer or the Street Director. Such determination of size of pipe shall be made by such public official utilizing common sense, the anticipated amount of water to be handled by such pipe, the particular and peculiar circumstances surrounding the installation thereof, and the present and anticipated future needs of water capacity, and any other related factors.
(e) No storm sewer, pipe or line shall be installed or constructed without having first complied with the backfill compaction and construction standards required for all pipes as provided by the City of Columbus Regulations.
(Ord. 1-05. Passed 1-4-05.)