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The size, slope, alignment and materials of construction of all sanitary sewers, including building sewers, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes and other applicable rules and regulations of the City. In the absence of suitable Code provisions, or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the A.S.T.M. and W.P.C.F. "Manual of Practice No. 9" shall apply. All service or lateral sewer pipe laid in streets or alleys in the City, and all service sewer pipe laid on the premises of the owner, shall be four inches in diameter, unless the City Manager, under proper circumstances, orders otherwise.
(Ord. 1039. Passed 5-8-84.)
Whenever possible, a building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all buildings in which a drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such a building drain shall be lifted by an approved means and discharged to the building sewer.
(Ord. 1039. Passed 5-8-84.)
No person shall make a connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface run-off or ground water to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer, unless such connection is approved by the City Manager for purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage.
(Ord. 1039. Passed 5-8-84.)
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