(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 City Clerk.
(B) All disposal by any person into the sewer system is unlawful except those discharges in compliance with federal standards promulgated pursuant to the Federal Act and more stringent state and local standards.
(C) (1) (a) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits as follows: for residential wastewater service; to commercial, institutional/governmental, or industrial wastewater service.
(b) In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the city.
(2) The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the City Engineer/Building Inspector. A permit and tap-on fee to be set forth by the City Council from time to time for a residential or commercial building sewer permit shall be paid to the city at the time the application is filed. The industry, as a condition of permit authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics, and type of activity. Sewer permit and tap-on fees shall be paid to the city at the time the application is filed.
(D) A building sewer permit will only be issued and a sewer connection shall only be allowed if it can be demonstrated that the downstream sewerage facilities, including sewers, pump stations, and wastewater treatment facilities, have sufficient reserve capacity to adequately and efficiently handle the additional anticipated waste load.
(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 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, 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 building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
(G) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the city, to meet all requirements of this chapter. This will not be allowed in areas that have combined sewers. Refer to division (P) of this section for details.
(H) The size, slope, 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 city. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society of Testing Materials, Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9, and Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Main Construction in Illinois shall apply.
(I) 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 the building drain shall be lifted by a means which is approved in accordance with division (B) above, and discharged to the building sewer.
(J) No person shall make connection of roof down spouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(K) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the then current building and plumbing code, and all other applicable rules and regulations of the city or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the American Society of Testing Materials, Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9 and Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Main Construction in Illinois. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the City Engineer before installation.
(L) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Building Inspector when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the city or its representative.
(M) 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.
(N) New construction, tributary to a combined sewer system, shall be designed to minimize or delay inflow to the combined sewer system. The domestic waste connection shall be distinct from the inflow connection, to facilitate disconnection of the inflow connection from the combined sewer system, within one year, should a storm sewer become available.
(O) All storm water inflow sources on the combined sewer shall be connected to a storm sewer, within one year, if a storm sewer becomes available.
(P) All and any new domestic waste connections shall be distinct from the building inflow connection, to facilitate disconnection if a storm sewer becomes available. This only applies to the combined sewer area of Metropolis. All other areas of Metropolis will not be allowed to tie inflow connections to the sewer system.
(Ord. 88-57, passed 12-27-1988; Am. Ord. 97-21, passed 7-28-1997; Am. Ord. 2008-09, passed 4-29-2008) Penalty, see § 52.99