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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.
(1969 Code, § 27-47) (Ord. 1989-7, passed 3-13-1989; Am. Ord. 2000-16, passed 4-24-2000) Penalty, see § 52.999
(A) (1) There shall be 2 classes of building sewer permits:
(a) For residential wastewater service; and
(b) For commercial, industrial, or institutional/governmental wastewater service.
(2) In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the city.
(B) The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the city. A permit and inspection fee of $500 for a residential or commercial building sewer permit shall be paid to the city at the time the application is filed. In the case of a force main, the fee shall be $650. And for this fee, the city shall make the sewer tap to the main sewer and extend a 6-inch sanitary sewer to a point 1 foot onto the owner’s property. In those instances where the building sewer line has previously been connected to the city’s sewer line and extended onto the owner’s property, the permit fee to connect the building sewer at this point will be $100.
(1969 Code, § 27-48) (Ord. 1989-7, passed 3-13-1989; Am. Ord. 1997-17, passed 4-28-1997; Am. Ord. 2000-16, passed 4-24-2000; Am. Ord. 2004-58, passed 10-25-2004; Am. Ord. 2010-8, passed 5-24-2010) Penalty, see § 52.999
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.
(1969 Code, § 27-49) (Ord. 1989-7, passed 3-13-1989)
(A) All costs and expense incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner except as specified in § 52.057(B). The normal maintenance of the building sewer from its connection to the city’s sanitary sewer to its connection with the building served shall be the responsibility of 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.
(B) The city will maintain the structural integrity of the tap within 1 foot inside the property boundary.
(1969 Code, § 27-50) (Ord. 1989-7, passed 3-13-1989; Am. Ord. 2000-16, passed 4-24-2000; Am. Ord. 2004-58, passed 10-25-2004) Penalty, see § 52.999
A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except that where 1 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 1 building sewer.
(1969 Code, § 27-51) (Ord. 1989-7, passed 3-13-1989) Penalty, see § 52.999
The size, slope, alignment, and materials for 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 this state shall apply.
(1969 Code, § 27-53) (Ord. 1989-7, passed 3-13-1989) Penalty, see § 52.999
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 means which are approved in accordance with § 52.055, and discharged to the building sewer.
(1969 Code, § 27-54) (Ord. 1989-7, passed 3-13-1989) Penalty, see § 52.999
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