(a) Approval. All designs shall be approved by the Board of Trustees of Public Affairs prior to construction.
(b) Connection to Public Sewer. The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at a location determined by the Village.
(c) Depth, Grade, Alignment and Change of Direction. All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work unless otherwise requested by the Board. 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 depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with proper fittings.
(d) EPA Standard Applies. Sewers shall be designed in accordance with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Design Guidelines.
(e) Independent Sewers Required; Exceptions. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building. However, 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. Adjacent buildings under one roof may use a common building sewer of appropriate size, however, a separate permit shall be required for each building. No other utilities will be permitted in the same trench as the building sewer.
(Ord. 6-80. Passed 5-19-80; Am. Ord. 5-99. Passed 3-23-99.)
(f) Laterals. The size and the slope of the building sewer lateral shall be subject to the approval of the Board, but in no event shall the diameter be less than four inches, except when engineering requirements necessitate a smaller diameter for efficient operation of the building sewer lateral. The slope of such pipe may be not less than one-eighth inch per foot.
(Ord. 12-85. Passed 8-5-85; Am. Ord. 5-99. Passed 3-23-99.)
(g) Lifting Sewage by Artificial Means. 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.
(h) Removal of Sewer by Municipality; Charges a Lien. The Board may cause to be taken up or removed any drain or sewer constructed in violation of this section so far as the same is within the limits of any property, thereby disconnecting such sewer or drain from any public sewer. The costs and expenses of removal shall constitute a charge against the owner of and be a lien upon the property intended to be drained by such drain or sewer, and if not paid upon demand by the Board the same shall be certified to the Tuscarawas County Auditor to be placed upon the duplicate, or shall be otherwise collected.
(I) Type of Pipe Required. The building sewer shall be of the best quality vitrified clay sewer pipe, (ASTM C700 extra strength), with precast plastic or O-ring joints; or Polyvinyl chlorine, (PVC), plastic pipe, (ASTM 3034 and SDR-35), with elastomeric gasket joint-integral bell type; or ABS plastic truss (composite) pipe (ASTM D2680) for eight-inch diameter and larger, ABS solid wall pipe (ASTM D2661 or ASTM D2751) for six-inch diameter.
Joints for ABS pipe shall be chemically welded, solid ABS couplings, on the exterior of the joint.
(j) Use of Old Sewers for Buildings. Old building sewers may be used only when they are found, on examination and test by the Board, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(Ord. 6-80. Passed 5-19-80; Am. Ord. 5-99. Passed 3-23-99.)