(A) Any new connection(s) to the sanitary sewer system shall be prohibited unless sufficient capacity is available in all downstream facilities including, but not limited to capacity for flow, BOD5 and suspended solids, as determined by the Superintendent.
(B) No unauthorized person(s) 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.
(C) Applications for permits shall be made by the owner or authorized agent and the party employed to do the work and shall state the location, name of owner, street number of the building to be connected, and how occupied. No person shall extend any private building drain beyond the limits of the building or property for which the service connection permit has been given.
(D) (1) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(a) For residential and commercial service; and
(b) For service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
(2) In either case, the application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or any other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the city. The industry, as a condition of permit authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics and type of activity.
(E) All costs and expense incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner(s). The owner(s) shall indemnify the city from any loss or damage that may be directly or indirectly 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 one building sewer. The city does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such connection aforementioned.
(G) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Superintendent or his or her representative, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(H) The size, slopes, alignment, materials or construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling of the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the State Building and Plumbing code or applicable rules and regulations of the city. In the absence of code provisions or in the amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9 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 such building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(J) No person(s) shall make connection of roof down spouts, foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or ground water to a building sewer or indirectly to the wastewater disposal system.
(K) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirement of the State Building and Plumbing Code or other applicable rules and regulations of the city, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and the WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gas-tight and water-tight, and verified by proper testing to prevent the inclusion of infiltration/inflow. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the city prior to installation.
(L) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the city when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and inspection shall be made under the supervision of the Superintendent or authorized representative thereof.
(M) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with rancidness 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) No person shall make a service connection with any public sewer unless permitted under this chapter to perform such work, and no permit shall be granted to any person except such regularly licensed.
(O) Any person desiring a license to make a service connection with public sewers shall apply in writing to the City Council with satisfactory evidence that the applicant or employer is trained, skilled and licensed in the state as a plumber. All applications shall be referred to the City Administrator- Treasurer. If approved by the City Administrator-Treasurer, such permit shall be issued upon the filing a bond as hereinafter provided.
(P) No permit shall be issued to any person until a $10,000 bond and/or certified check to the city, approved by the Council, is filed with the City Administrator-Treasurer conditioned that the licensee will indemnify and save harmless the city from all suits, accidents and damage that may arise by reason of any opening in any street, alley or public ground, made by the licensee or by those in the licensee’s employment for any purpose whatever, and that the licensee will replace and restore the street and alley over such opening to the condition existing prior to installations, adequately guard with barricades and lights and will keep and maintain the same to the satisfaction of the City Administrator-Treasurer, and shall conform in all respects to the rules and regulation of the Council relative thereto, and pay all fines that may be imposed on the licensee by law.
(Q) The permit for each service connection shall be set by City Council resolution and be in § 39.01. All permits shall expire on December 31 of the permit year unless the permit is suspended or revoked by the Council for cause.
(R) The Council may suspend or revoke any permit issued under this chapter for any of the following causes:
(1) Giving false information in connection with the application for a permit;
(2) Incompetence of the permittee; and
(3) Willful violation of any provisions of this chapter or any rules or regulation pertaining to the making of service connection.
(2009 Code, § 403.05)