(A) No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections with or opening into, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Clerk-Treasurer.
(B) (1) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(a) For residential and commercial service; and
(b) For service to establishment producing industrial wastes.
(2) In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the town.
(3) The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the inspector.
(4) Effective January 1, 2003, a sanitary sewer lateral inspection fee as set forth within the currently in force McCordsville Schedule of Fees and Charges for such service which fee shall be paid to the Clerk-Treasurer at the time the building permit application is approved.
(C) All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner(s). The owner(s) shall indemnify the town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(D) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except 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 building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole be considered as one building sewer.
(E) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Inspector, to meet all requirements of this subchapter.
(F) The size, scope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the town. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and S.P.C.F. Manual of Practice No. FD-9 shall apply.
(G) Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be bought 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 the building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(H) No person(s) shall make connection of roof down spouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(I) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the town or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and the S.P.C.F. Manual of Practice in No. FD-9. All the connections shall be made gas-tight and water-tight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Superintendent before installations.
(J) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Inspector when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of the Inspector or his or her representative. The applicant shall provide access to all structures (and areas of structures) to the Inspector for the purpose of establishing compliance with division (H) above.
(K) 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 town.
(L) All connections made to the sanitary sewer system shall be made in compliance with Exhibit A attached to the ordinance codified herein, and incorporated by reference herein, or any subsequent amendments thereto.
(M) Whenever an entity wishing to develop a parcel of property within the sewer district of the town, not heretofore provided with sanitary sewer facilities, the entity must do the following as conditions precedent to being given permission to connect to the town’s sanitary sewer facilities.
(1) When any entity desiring to develop property within the town, hereinafter referred to as “developer”, shall indicate the interest to the town, the developer is to obtain his or her own engineer to design not only the collection system within his or her project, but also how the system would connect to the main sewer lines and the cost of extending sewer lines to service the project, all of which must be in accordance with the Town Master Sewer Plan.
(2) The developer will enter into a separate contract and agreement with the town’s consulting engineer to have the plans and cost estimates reviewed at a price negotiated and agreed upon between the developer and the town’s consulting engineer.
(3) A developer agreement shall be entered into between the developer and the town, the terms of which shall include, but not be limited to, the following conditions.
(a) The developer would pay, at the time of execution of the developer agreement or at other times as agreed to between the town and developer, 40% of the $2,500 sewer plant availability fee for each EDU to procure plant allocation.
(b) The developer shall construct and install all necessary components of a collection system including, but not limited to, if necessary, a lift station and force main in order to connect the system serving the proposed developed area to the town’s sanitary sewer facility with the further condition that the collection system be designed and constructed to serve not only the developer’s project but all potential users within the designated service area as shown by the Master Sewer Plan.
(c) The total cost for the facilities installed by the developer, excluding the collection system necessary to serve the developer’s project, shall be divided by the total projected number of EDU’s for the entire service area.
(Ord. 110999, passed - -1999; Ord. 040699SU, passed 4-6-1999; Ord. 111202A, passed 12-10-2002; Ord. 121316C, passed 1-10-2017)