Any sewer contractor before laying pipe or making the connection to any wye, tee, riser or crossover shall uncover both appurtenances to same to ascertain the condition. No sewer pipe shall be laid before the City Inspector is on the job. The sewer contractor shall determine the slope of the building sewer from the elevations of the existing City sewer connection and the connection at the building with the minimum slope being in accordance with Section 914.09. Should there not be enough fall available to provide minimum slope, the Inspector shall be advised immediately. Sewer pipe laying shall start at the connection to the main sewer. The sewer contractor shall install a tee at the point of connection to the City sewer and shall provide adequate testing facilities to plug this tee in order to water test the completed building sewer with an equivalent of ten (10) feet of water head, in the presence of the City Inspector or his authorized agent. Upon satisfactory completion of this test and approval by the City Inspector or his authorized agent, the sewer contractor shall connect the sewer to the cast iron pipe building drain installed by the plumbing contractor which extends at least three (3) feet beyond the outside wall of the building. At this point the sewer contractor shall install a joint adaptor, to adapt the cast iron pipe building drain to the building sewer. Upon completion of the connection to the cast iron pipe, the sewer contractor shall install the necessary riser pipe above the tee at the City sewer connection to a point two (2) inches above proposed finished grade and shall install a premium joint plug.
(Ord. 98-038. Passed 9-14-98.)