(a) The applicant for a sewer permit shall notify the Utilities Director when the sewer is ready for inspection.
(b) The connection to the public sewer, lateral and the connection between the building drain and the building sewer, as well as the entire building sewer, shall remain uncovered until approved by the Director or his representative.
(c) When applicable, upon completion of the sewer connection, the property owner shall abandon the on-lot sewage disposal system in accordance with the Health Department procedures and shall be inspected and approved by the Director or his representative.
(1) The City shall forward the septic tank abandonment inspection form to the Health Department.
(d) The lateral from the sewer main up to and including the clean out or other approved structure in the right-of-way shall be turned over to the City and shall become part of the City's POTW upon passing a sewer inspection.
(e) Because I&I will, over time, increase as a system ages, whether it is a private or public sewer and I&I is a major contributor to sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs), back-ups into basements (WIBs), and bypasses at the WWTP, and all of these conditions are a violation of the City's NPDES permit issued by the Ohio EPA, the Director shall create and maintain standards for inspections of private sewers. Inspections shall be required when one or more of the following conditions are applicable:
(1) Flow monitoring in the sanitary sewer identifies that inflow and/or infiltration is occurring in the tributary sewerage service area.
(2) Publicly available evidence indicates that a defect may be present and/or inflow and/or infiltration is entering a building drain and/or building sewer.
(3) The private sewer has not previously been inspected and has not previously passed an air test as described in the City's Engineering Standard.
(f) The Director shall establish standards for such inspections and shall require a CCTV inspection of any and all portion of the building drain and building sewer that cannot be visually inspected. All inspections reports and CCTV video shall be submitted to the City for review and evaluation no later than twelve months after being so ordered.
(1) All inspection reports submitted to the City shall include a signed certification statement by the person that performed said inspection.
(2) Cost and expense of inspecting building drains and building sewers for defects and/or clean water connections shall be borne by the owner.
(Ord. A-901. Passed 5-21-71; Ord. A-2142. Passed 11- -98; Ord. A-2344. Passed 3-10-03; Ord. A-2743. Passed 12-10-12; Ord. A-2773. Passed 11-11-13; Ord. A-2788. Passed 6-23-14; Ord. A-2813. Passed 2-2-15.)