(A) (1) All connections with any sewer 15 inches or smaller shall be made by means of a “Y” or “T” branch or other special fitting provided in such sewer for that purpose.
(2) If a connection to a sewer must be made at any place where a “Y” or “T” branch has not been placed, where feasible, a “Y” fitting shall be placed in the main sewer in the following manner: a section of sewer pipe shall be removed from the main sewer by breaking it into pieces, care being taken not to break, disturb or injure the adjacent pipe. The “Y” fitting shall then be inserted without chipping or breaking the pipe or branch where possible; where not possible, the upper half (when in position) of the bell on the run of the “Y” branch to be inserted, and the upper half of the nearest and adjacent bell on the existing pipe in the trench, shall then be carefully removed and the “Y” branch inserted wrong side up and revolved to bring the branch to the side it is intended for, with the broken part of the bell up. The joint shall then be cemented in the proper manner, the broke parts of the bells being well rounded over with a liberal amount of cement mortar or other approved material.
(B) Connections to a sewer may also be made by inserting in the sewer a standard saddle fitting. Such a fitting shall be one designed for that purpose and shall not be improvised from the bell end of a straight length of pipe. Before cutting the hole in the sewer of the saddle fitting, the sides and bottom of the length of pipe in which the hole is to be cut shall be strengthened by a layer of concrete not less than three inches in thickness at any point. The hole in the pipe shall be carefully marked and chipped or pinched out; the saddle placed so that no part projects into the pipe and carefully mortared into position. Sections of pipe shall then be fitted into the saddle to form a riser and all such pieces of pipe which are vertically over the sewer shall be encased in a shaft of concrete having a thickness about the pipe of not less than three inches. The shaft shall firmly rest on the block of concrete encasing the sewer pipe in which the connection was made. The concrete shaft shall be poured into a form of light sheet metal or stove pipe which form shall be left in place as the trench is backfilled. The earth backfill around the shaft shall be carefully tamped and the backfill brought up uniformly on all sides to prevent lateral loads upon and the possible breaking of the shaft.
(C) No basement, half-basement or any other portion of a building having a floor elevation beneath the ground surface over the village sanitary sewer at the point of connection may be connected into the village sewer by gravity. In areas where the ground line over the village sewer is to be altered, the proposed final ground elevation shall be used. The maximum depth to the top of the building service sewer shall be at least three feet below finished grade at the point where it enters such building. In all buildings in which the building drain is too low to provide gravity flow to the village sewer, all sewage carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved mechanical means and discharged into the building sewer. No water-operated sewage ejector shall be used. The aforesaid provisions shall apply to all buildings constructed after the effective date of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 51.037) (Ord. 94-101, passed 5- -1994) Penalty, see § 51.999