(a) No person shall tap any sewer of the City or make any connection therewith, unless there shall be installed in such connection, or in the building sewer, what is commonly known as a back-water valve, where the overflow rim of the lowest plumbing fixture(s) inside the structure is below rim elevation of the next upstream manhole in the public sewer.
(1) Backwater valves shall be installed so that access is provided to the working parts for service and repair to be performed at the owner’s expense.
(2) The Health Department shall designate and approve the standard acceptable types of backwater valves that shall be used. The installation and inspection of backwater valves shall be conducted by the Health Department.
(b) Whenever the Utilities Director shall determine it necessary for the protection from sewer backups, owners of property, which are connected to the City sewer shall install back-water valves in the sewer connections to their property.
(c) No owner or occupant of property, having a sewer connection without a backwater valve, who is ordered to install the backwater valve therein shall fail to comply with such order.
(d) The Utilities Director shall promulgate rules covering the conditions where the backwater valves shall be installed.
(Ord. A-2743. Passed 12-10-12; Ord. A-2789. Passed 6-23-14.)