(a) The City Engineer is hereby directed, prior to the final approval of any newly installed sewer system and/or reconstructed sewer, to require that any and all contractors cause to be made color photographs of the entire sewer system installed, showing thereby that the sewer system is free of any and all foreign substance and nature, that the passage and flow of sewage and storm water is free and clear, that the sewer system has been constructed on a sound engineering basis and that no physical and/or structural deficiencies exist. It shall be mandatory that sewers of a size of eight inches to twenty-seven inches in diameter be color photographed by the owner. Photographing sewers of a size of thirty inches to forty-two inches in diameter shall be at the option of the City Engineer with the provision that should the City Engineer not require photography, then the owner, at his expense, shall provide the necessary method, tools and equipment, subject to the Engineer's approval, to pull a qualified sewer inspector through the sewer main that is to be visually inspected. It shall not be required of the owner that sewers forty-eight inches in diameter and larger be inspected by photography. A report shall be submitted to the City of any visual inspections permitted by the Engineer.
(b) Upon the submission of the photographs and/or visual inspection reports, and if satisfied that such sewer is free and clear of all foreign substance and that the physical and/or structural deficiencies noted, in the opinion of the City Engineer have been corrected and there is nothing present to prevent the free flow of sewage and storm waters, the City Engineer is hereby authorized to approve the same as final inspection, placing in safekeeping all photographs and/or inspection reports for future reference by the City.
(c) The City Engineer may, at his discretion, under exceptional conditions, require that all or part of a particular installation be inspected by television rather than by color photography. Upon inspection of a submitted report, and, if satisfied that such sewer is free and clear of all foreign substance and there is nothing present to prevent the free flow of sewage and storm waters, the City Engineer is hereby authorized to approve the same as final inspection, placing in safekeeping all inspection reports for future reference by the City.
(d) The cost of such photography and/or inspection reports, including the cost of review by the City Engineer, shall be paid for by the contractor or the developer of such land and photographs and/or inspection reports shall remain the property of the City.
(e) Where television inspection has been substituted for color photography the cost of such television and/or inspection reports and the per diem rate of a qualified inspector, provided by the Engineer to act as an observer during the time that such television inspection is being conducted, and the final report review submitted, shall be entirely paid for by the contractor or the developer of such land and/or sewer system and the inspection reports shall remain the property of the City.
(Ord. 1968-113. Passed 1-6-69.)
(Ord. 1968-113. Passed 1-6-69.)