(A) No consumer shall be permitted to extend water pipes across lots or buildings to adjoining premises. All service pipe shall be laid on streets, alleys, or public ground to the premises to be served and enter at the front, side, or rear of the nearest main.
(B) Separation of water service pipes and sewer service pipes shall be no less than ten feet apart horizontally or can be placed in a common trench if the bottom of the water service pipe is kept at a minimum of 12 inches above the top of the sewer pipe at all points and the water pipe is placed on a solid shelf at one side of the common trench. A common trench may also be used without the separation requirements if the sewer pipe is of schedule 40 plastic pipe and the water pipe is of approved copper, ductile iron, or plastic pipe.
(C) Water extensions to a subdivision within the corporate limits of the city are to be petitioned by the developer. The City Clerk-Treasurer will have a feasibility study conducted after which the City Council will approve, or disapprove, any utility improvements to the area.
(Ord. 17-8, passed 2-12-2001) Penalty, see § 52.99