935.05 BUILDING SEWERS AND CONNECTIONS.
(a) No unauthorized 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 Public Works Director. A licensed sewer tapper making application for a permit shall have the owner's authority to make such application and shall be deemed the owner's agent.
(b) No temporary or accommodation connection or taps to a sanitary sewer within the City shall be permitted to serve property located outside of the sewer district in which such sewer is located. The Public Works Director shall have no authority to authorize or permit a connection or tap of the type or character referred to in this section without the express approval of Council.
(c) No permit shall be issued allowing connections to be made with any public sewer, to service or drain any lots or lands, where the owners or former owners of which for any reason have not paid or have refused to pay the portion of the cost of such public sewer allocated by Council to such lots for lands or who have not paid all assessments levied against such lots or lands for sanitary or drainage purposes, or any lots or lands which have not been assessed for such sewer or drainage unless the owner thereof shall pay to the City such unpaid assessments. Money so paid shall be placed to the credit of an appropriate sewer fund.
(d) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: for residential and commercial service; and for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Public Works Director. A permit and inspection fee shall be paid to the Director of Finance at the time the application is filed. The permit shall be issued by the Public Works Director after the required fee for the tap has been deposited with the Director of Finance and may be revoked for violation of any provision of this chapter or failure to comply with the reasonable rules, regulations, and orders of the Public Works Director adopted pursuant hereto.
(e) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify and save harmless the City from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(f) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building. This section shall not apply to buildings which perform related functions as part of an industrial complex.
(g) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Public Works Director, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(h) The building sewer shall be vitrified sewer pipe meeting the requirements of the American Society for Testing Materials, Designation C-700 with watertight joints including a compression type gasket conforming to the material and testing requirements of ASTM Designation C-425 Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) pipe ASTM Designation D-3034, with integral wall bell and spigot type joint conforming to ASTM D-3212 or cast iron soil pipe ASTM Designation A-74, with push-on type joints or an approved no-bell stainless steel band type joint. House sewers shall be not less than six inches in diameter. If installed in filled or unstable ground, the building sewer shall be of cast iron soil pipe, except the vitrified clay sewer pipe or Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) pipe material may be used if laid on a suitable concrete bed or cradle as approved by the Public Works Director.
(i) The size and slope of the building sewer shall be subject to the approval of the Public Works Director, but in no event shall the diameter be less than six inches. The slope of such six-inch pipe shall not be less than 1.04% or one-eighth inch per foot.
(j) 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 building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipe and fittings.
(k) In all buildings in which any 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.
(l) All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Public Works Director. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM Designation (C-12) except that no backfill shall
be placed until the work has been inspected.
If the construction is backfilled or otherwise covered before such inspection, the Public Works Director may require the fill or cover to be removed at the expense of the permittee or person making such tap. Such expense if not otherwise paid, shall be an obligation under the bond provided for in Section 935.07.
(m) Pipe shall be laid on six inches of crushed stone bedding material conforming under ASTM #67 crushed aggregate. It shall be a blend of angular materials in the general size range of one-fourth inch to three-fourths inch. It shall conform to the following sieve analysis: 10% passing one inch; 90-100% passing three-fourths inch; 20-55% passing three-eighths inch; 0-10% passing #4; 0-5% passing #8. Measurement shall be by weight.
After the bedding material is placed in the bottom of the trench, the pipe shall be laid in the bedding material with care being taken to insure that the bottom of the pipe is resting on the bedding material for its full length. The pipe shall then be adjusted to the proper elevation by adding or removing bedding material as required.
After the piping installation is approved by the Public Works Director, it shall be backfilled to a depth of at least six inches above the top of the pipe with granular material conforming to that specified for bedding material. This initial backfill shall be thoroughly tamped to the satisfaction of the Public Works Director with precaution taken so that no misalignment and no change in grade will occur during the backfilling operation.
The balance of the trench located outside the pavement limits shall be backfilled with the excavated materials free of large stones or lumps. All excavations within the limits of street pavement, parking areas or public drives shall be backfilled with gravel backfill compacted in place. Gravel backfill shall meet with approval of the Public Works Director prior to its installation. All excavations shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard.
(n) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at a wye or tee fitting, if such fitting is available at a suitable location. If the public sewer is fifteen inches in diameter or less, and no properly located wye or tee fitting is available, the owner shall at his own expense install a wye or tee fitting in the public sewer at the location specified by the Public Works Director. This shall be done by neatly sawing pipe and connecting with stainless steel "no-hub" connectors. Where the public sewer is greater than fifteen inches in diameter, and a wye or tee fitting is not available, connection into the public sewer shall be made by using a saddle completely encased in concrete and made watertight. Long radius forty-five degree shall be used, as required, at the wye or tee fittings.
(o) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Public Works Director twenty-four hours before the building sewer will be ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer to insure inspection on the following day. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Public Works Director or his representative.
(p) All excavations for building sewer installations 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 Public Works Director.
(q) No person authorized and licensed under the chapter to make openings, taps or connections with sewers, drains or drainage facilities or provide septic tank cleaning or repair services, shall allow his name to be used by another for the purpose of obtaining permits, or of doing any work under a license issued to him.
(r) Each person who makes openings, taps or connections with or constructs sewers or drains upon or over public streets or property, shall keep in repair and good order the whole of the work executed by him, until the same is accepted by the Public Works Director or his authorized representative, which acceptance shall be given in writing, and if deemed necessary by the Public Works Director may be deferred until the expiration of one year after the completion of the work.
(s) In case it is necessary to connect a drain or sewer pipe with a public sewer or drainage facility when no junction is left in the same, the new connection with the public sewer or drainage facility shall be made only when a representative of the City, designated by the Public Works Director, is present to see the whole of the work performed.
(t) The owner shall maintain and repair private sewers lying within the right of way limits of dedicated public streets and alleys.
(u) The Public Works Director is hereby authorized to make and enforce such regulations as may be necessary or proper in respect to or to provide for:
(1) The safe, economical and efficient management and protection of the public sanitary, combined or storm sewer system, facilities and appurtenances;
(2) The treatment, pumping and disposal of sewage, wastes, storm water and any pumping, transmission or facilities therefor;
(3) The construction, repair, maintenance and use of the public sewer system, facilities, appurtenances and connections thereto, including the materials used in and methods employed in the performance of work pertaining thereto;
(4) Such applications, permits, bonds and other forms or documents as may be necessary or convenient to the discharge of his duties and responsibilities in respect to and the enforcement of the provisions of Council pertaining to the subject matter hereof.
Such rules and regulations when approved by Council shall be enforced to the same extent as the provisions of the chapter or other legislation enacted by Council and violations thereof shall be punished as provided in Section 935.99(a)(2).
(v) The following fees are hereby imposed and shall be collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter:
License and Permit Fees | |
Sanitary sewer or storm sewer tapper's license | $100.00 |
Renewal of sanitary or storm sewer tapper's license | 25.00/year |
Permit to open or tap a sanitary sewer for residential or commercial building | 55.00/year |
Permit to open or tap a sanitary sewer for industrial users | 150.00/year |
Permit to open or tap either a sanitary or storm sewer manhole | 150.00/year |
Permit and inspection fee for private sewage disposal system | 70.00/year |
Each such license or renewal thereof shall be valid until December 31 of the year in which issued unless sooner terminated or revoked as provided herein.
Pretreatment Fees | |
Fee for filing appeal | $ 25.00 |
Review of accidental discharge procedures and construction | 20.00/hour |
(Ord. 13-010. Passed 1-15-13.)