(A) Any new connection to the sanitary sewer system shall be prohibited, unless sufficient capacity is available in all downstream facilities, including, but not limited to, capacity for flow, BOD5, TSS, TKN, and phosphorus, as determined by the Wastewater Superintendent.
(B) No unauthorized person 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 city.
(C) Applications for permits shall be made by the owner, or authorized agent, and the party employed to do the work, and shall state the location, name of owner, street number of the building to be connected, and how occupied. No person shall extend any private building drain beyond the limits of the building, or property, for which the service connection permit has been given.
(D) (1) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits:
(a) For residential, and commercial, service; and
(b) For service to establishments producing industrial wastes.
(2) In either case, the application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or any other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the city. The industry, as a condition of permit authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics, and type of activity.
(E) All costs, and expenses, incidental to the installation, and connection, of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the city from any loss, or damage, that may be directly, or indirectly, occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(F) 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 one building sewer. The city does not, and will not, assume any obligation, or responsibility, for damage caused by, or resulting from, any connection aforementioned.
(G) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Wastewater Superintendent, or his or her representative, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(H) The size, slopes, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing, and backfilling of the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the state building and plumbing codes, or other applicable rules and regulations of the city. In the absence of code provisions, or in the amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice, No. 9, shall apply.
(I) 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 the building drain shall be lifted by an approved means, and discharged to the building sewer.
(J) It is unlawful for any person to make connection of roof downspouts, foundation drains, areaway drains, or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer, or indirectly to the wastewater disposal system.
(K) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the state building and plumbing codes, or other applicable rules and regulations of the city, or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and the WPCF Manual of Practice, No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight, and verified by proper testing to prevent the inclusion of infiltration/inflow. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the city prior to installation.
(L) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the city when the building sewer is ready for inspection, and connection, to the public sewer. The connection, and inspection, shall be made under the supervision of the Wastewater Superintendent.
(M) 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 city.
(N) No person shall make a service connection with any public sewer unless regularly licensed under the city code to perform the work, and no permit shall be granted to any person except the regularly licensed person.
(Prior Code, § 3.40) Penalty, see § 52.99