(A) Any opening in any paved or improved portion of a street shall be repaired and the surface replaced by the applicant under the supervision of the Supervisor of City Service in accordance with the following requirements:
(1) Backfill shall be of selected granular material such as concrete sand or fine aggregate free of large lumps, clods or rock, and shall be moistened before compaction if required by the engineer. Special care shall be taken to thoroughly compact the material under the haunches of the pipe by bringing the fill up evenly on both sides of the pipe for it full strength. This fill shall continue until the fill is level with the top of pipe. At this point, backfill shall be placed in even successive four inch layers not exceeding four inches in depth and thoroughly compacted with improved mechanical tamper. Any nonmetallic pipe shall have a tracer wire laid with the pipe.
(2) All excess debris and materials will be removed and immediate area will be cleared in a manner to be approved by the Supervisor of City Services. The pavement shall be replaced in successive layers of compacted fill to top of trench followed with four inches of 2500 portland concrete and two inches of compacted bituminous wearing course surface, moistened and compacted with a pneumatic tamper.
(B) The cutting of the pavement, the backfilling, and the replacing of the pavement shall be done in accordance with the requirements detailed in the figure below, dated August 1, 1983.
(Ord. 11, passed 8-23-1983)