(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 Service Director.
(b) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(1) For residential and commercial service; and
(2) 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 submitted with any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Service Director.
(3) Permit and inspection fees for a sanitary sewer connection or building sewer shall be as follows:
A. Each sanitary sewer connection: | |
1. For residential or commercial service | $50.00 |
2. For service to establishments producing industrial wastes subject to the requirements of Chapter 917 | 60.00 |
B. Each ten lineal feet or fraction thereof building sewer | 10.00 |
C. Each manhole, inspection chamber, sampling chamber or similar structure | 50.00 |
Such fees shall be paid to the City at the time the application is filed.
The building sewer permit shall be issued to the applicant upon approval of plans submitted for such construction. Construction involving openings or excavations in any street, boulevard, avenue or other public place in the City shall be pursuant to Chapter 901. Construction shall be made in accordance with the plans approved by the City Engineer for such construction which plans shall thereafter remain on file with the City Engineering Department as a permanent public record.
In no case shall such work be commenced and prosecuted unless such permit is issued and is on the premises of and in the possession of the person doing the work authorized by the permit. Each permit shall give the correct name and number of house, building or establishment and the lot or sublot upon which the same is located for the work provided for in the permit. Information shall be so stated on the permit as to sufficiently define by description the premises to be so served and clearly delineate the location of the premises to be so served upon the map of the City's sewage system.
(c) 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 for any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(d) In the case of industrial waste permits, the owner shall provide at his expense a sampling manhole installed between the building and the public sewer connection and shall further provide a list of all chemicals used, manufacturing processes used and composition of the effluent to be discharged, to the Service Director. The owner shall comply with all additional requirements set forth in Chapter 917.
(e) A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for each unit of a condominium building consisting of three units or less, and for every building, except that where one building stands at the rear of an existing building, other than a condominium, 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.
(f) Old building sewers may not be used in connection with new buildings.
No more than one building sewer may be tied into a riser from the sewer main.
(g) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements as established by the County Sanitary Engineering Department, or by the ordinances of the City, whichever is more restrictive.
(h) The size, slope, alignment and 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 as established by the County Sanitary Engineering Department, or by the ordinances of the City, whichever is more restrictive. All trenches shall include a clay or concrete collar to serve as an anti-seep cut-off wall to prevent migration of groundwater from the public sewer trench to building footer drains.
(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 to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such building shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer. The basement floor of a house or building shall be not less than five feet above the top of the sanitary sewer pipe where the building sewer connects to the public sewer unless the sewage is lifted by an approved means. The basement floor of a house or building shall be not less than one foot above the top of the storm sewer pipe or other approved drainage outlet unless the storm drainage system is equipped with a sump pump with an approved surface relief valve. A surface relief valve may not be added to an existing system unless the City Engineer approves the condition of the existing storm connection to the public storms sewer.
(j) No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, runaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
(k) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Service Director twenty- four hours before commencement of construction of the building sewer. The construction of the building sewer and the connection to the public sewer shall be made under the supervision of the Service Director or his representative.
(l) 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 promptly restored in a manner satisfactory to the City.
(Ord. 2017-83. Passed 12-19-17.)
(Ord. 2017-83. Passed 12-19-17.)