(a) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except that where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and no private sewer is available or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court, yard or driveway, the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer, but the City does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
(b) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, upon examination and testing by the Director of Utilities, to meet all the requirements of this chapter. Abandoned sewers or openings shall be plugged to prevent dirt or fill material from entering the sewerage system.
(c) Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(d) No connection or lateral extending to private property from a public sewer or drain shall be constructed except in accordance with specifications issued by the Director.
(e) All connections, tappings or openings shall be made under the supervision of the Director. The holder of a building sewer permit shall notify the Director when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer.
(f) 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 and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City. All refilling of the excavation made for such connection shall be under the supervision of the City officials responsible for streets.
(g) Whenever a building is demolished, thus terminating sewage flow from such location, all building connections to the sewerage system shall be plugged at the tapping or opening into the sewer. Such plugging shall be made under the supervision of the Director. The owner of the building shall notify the Director as to when the plugging shall occur.
(Ord. 175-91. Passed 7-8-91; Ord. 246-21. Passed 10-25-21.)