(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 Commissioner of Public Works.
(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) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(a) For residential wastewater services.
(b) For commercial, institutional/ governmental or industrial wastewater service. In either case, the owner or the owner’s 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 judgement of the Commissioner of Public Works. A permit and inspection fee in an amount to be set by ordinance 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.
(D) A building sewer permit will be issued and a sewer connection shall be allowed only if it can be demonstrated the downstream sewerage facilities, including sewers ,pump stations and wastewater treatment facilities have sufficient reserve capacity to adequately and efficiently handled 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, directly or indirectly, may be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(F) 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 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 Commissioner of Public Works, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(H) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, joining, testing and backfilling the trench shall 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 Federa- tion Manual of Practice No. 9 and Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Main Construc- tion in Illinois shall apply.
(I) When 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 downspouts, 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.
(K) 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 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 Construc- tion in Illinois. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedure and materials must be approved by the Commissioner of Public Works before installa- tion.
(L) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Commissioner of Public Works when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Commissioner of Public Works or the Commissioner’s representative.
(M) All excavations for building sewer installa- tion 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.
(Ord. 0-89-8, passed 6-5-89) Penalty, see § 53.99