(A) Permit required. No authorized persons 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 Council.
(B) Classes of permits; fees.
(1) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: for residential and commercial service; and for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the town. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information pertinent in the judgment of the Council.
(2) A fee for a sewer permit for residential, commercial, or industrial building shall be paid to the town at the time the application is filed. Said fees for the tap and inspection shall be set by the Town Council by resolution.
(C) Responsibility for costs; indemnify town against loss or damage. All costs and expenses incidental to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owners. The owners shall indemnify the town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(D) Separate building sewers; exception. 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 as one building sewer, but the town does not and will not assume any obligation or responsibility for damage caused by or resulting from any such single connection aforementioned.
(E) Use of old building sewers. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(F) Compliance with building and plumbing codes, other standards. The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of all sanitary sewers, including building sewers, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the town. In the absence of suitable code provisions or in amplification thereof, the material and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
(G) Elevation of building drain. 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.
(H) Groundwater or surface water runoff. No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff 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 town for purposes of disposal of polluted surface drainage.
(I) Connection of building sewer into public sewer. The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes or other applicable rules and regulations of the town, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight and verified by proper testing. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the town before installation.
(J) Notice to town for inspection and connection. The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the superintendent when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection and testing shall be made under the supervision of a licensed civil engineer at the expense of the applicant.
(K) Restoration of excavations. All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades 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 town at the applicant’s expense.
(Prior Code, § 9-2-4) (Ord. 2024-01, passed 4-4-2024) Penalty, see § 9-2-7