(a) Conditions for Discharge into Treatment System.
(1) Public wastewater collection facilities are required to be used for the deposit of human wastes, garbage, or other liquid wastes that cannot be discharged into a receiving stream or disposed of in any other manner in accordance with Federal and State statutes and State administrative regulations and approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
(2) No building or facility shall be connected to any sewer unless the entire property on which the building or facility is situated is located within the corporate limits of the Village of Utica, except as provided in subsection (g) hereof.
(3) No person shall place, deposit, or discharge, or cause to be placed, deposited or discharged, upon public or privately-owned property, any wastewaters within the corporate limits of the Village unless done so within adequately sized holding facilities approved by all applicable Federal, State and local agencies.
(4) No person shall deposit or discharge, or cause to be deposited or discharged, to any wastewater collection facilities, any solid, liquid or gaseous waste unless through a connection approved under the terms of this chapter.
(5) No person shall discharge any sewage, waste material, industrial waste, or any polluted water into a stream or in the air or onto the land, except where the person has made and provided for treatment of such wastes which will render the content of such wastes' discharge in accordance with applicable Village, State and Federal laws, ordinances and regulations.
(6) In case of natural outlet discharges at the time construction of the waste treatment works is commenced, each owner or operator shall furnish the Village an approved National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit setting forth the effluent limits to be achieved by such pretreatment facilities and a schedule for achieving compliance with such limits by the required date. The NPDES permit shall be kept on file with the Village Administrator and updated by such information as periodically required by the Village, local, State, and/or Federal agencies.
(7) Any person owning property within the corporate limits of the Village and the property is improved with one or more residences, houses, buildings or structures for or intended for human use, occupancy, employment or any other similar purpose whatever, and the property abuts on any street, alley or right of way in which there is located a sewer shall, within ninety days after such sewer is in service, at his expense, install suitable toilet and waste disposal facilities in the residences, houses, buildings or structures and connect the facilities with the sewer in accordance with the terms and provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that in the event compliance with this section causes economic hardship to the person, he may apply to the Village for exemption. An application for exemption shall state in detail the circumstances which are claimed to cause the economic hardship. Any connection to the sewer under this chapter shall be made only if the Village determines that there is capacity, including BOD and TSS capacity, available in all downstream sewer lift stations and sewer lines and in the treatment plant.
(8) Persons described in subsection (a)(5) through (7) hereof shall not avoid connection to the sewer by reason of the actual distance between the building or structure and the connecting point of the sewer line.
(9) Whenever sanitary sewers or portions thereof are laid at the expense of the Village without the cost of such line or lines being paid for by, or assessed against, all the property owners abutting such line and benefitted thereby, the owner of any of the abutting property to be serviced by such line or lines and for which property the cost thereof has not been paid or assessed shall pay his prorata share of such line or lines before tapping therein.
(b) Limitations on Discharge.
(1) No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, foundation drainwater, groundwater, roof runoff, surface drainage, or unpolluted industrial cooling waters to any sewer connected to the Village's waste treatment plant.
(2) Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following material to any sewer connected to the Village's treatment plant:
A. Any liquid or vapor having a temperature high enough to create damaging or adverse effects on the treatment process or to prevent compliance with regulations pertaining to the treatment standards.
B. Any waters or wastes which may contain more than 100 parts per million by weight of fat, oil, grease, or hexane extractable material.
C. Gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other combustible, flammable, or explosive liquid, solid or gas of whatsoever kind or nature.
D. Any garbage that has not been properly shredded.
E. Any gases, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, whole blood, paunch manure, or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works.
F. Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 6.0 or higher than 9.0 or having any other corrosive properties capable of causing damage or hazard to sewers, structures, equipment or personnel of the waste treatment works.
G. Any waters or waste containing any toxic or poisonous substance in sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process or that would constitute a hazard to humans or animals, or that could create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
H. Any water or wastes containing BOD or suspended solids of such character and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle such materials at the sewage treatment plant, except as may be permitted by specific, written agreement with the Village, which agreement may provide for special charges, payments or provisions for treating and testing equipment.
I. Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a public nuisance.
J. Any amount of the following constituents exceeding that listed below:
Constituent | Milligrams per Liter |
Aluminum | 800.0 |
Arsenic | 0.25 |
Barium | 2.0 |
Boron | 1.0 |
Cadmium | 2.0 |
Chlorides | 700.0 |
Chromium total | 21.8 |
(Hexavalent) | 3.6 |
Copper | 17.8 |
Cyanide | 1.2 |
Fluorides | 2.5 |
Iron, total | 56.0 |
Lead | 1.5 |
Manganese | 1.0 |
Mercury | 0.0005 |
Nickel | 6.7 |
Phenols | 0.3 |
Selenium | 1.0 |
Silver | 0.1 |
Total Dissolved Solids | 1500.0 |
Zinc | 16.5 |
K. Ammonia nitrogen in such an amount that would cause the Village to be in noncompliance with regulations of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
L. No provision of subsection (b) shall be construed to provide lesser discharge standards than are presently or may hereafter be imposed and required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
(c) Pretreatment.
(1) Grease, oil and sand interceptors or retainers shall be installed by the user at his own expense when, in the opinion of the Village Administrator, such are necessary for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease, oils or sand in excessive amounts, of any inflammable wastes, and of such other harmful ingredients. Such interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the Village Administrator and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning by the user and for inspection by the Village Administrator.
(2) Where installed, all grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be maintained by the user, at his own expense, and shall be kept in continuous and efficient operation at all times.
(3) In the event the Village approves the admission of any materials into its sewers as set forth in subsection (b)(2) hereof, the Village shall direct the user causing admission of any such materials to, at his own expense, construct, install, and operate such preliminary treatment plants and facilities as may be required in order to:
A. Reduce the BOD to 300 parts per million and the suspended solids to 350 parts per million by weight.
B. Reduce objectionable characteristics or constituents to within the maximum limits provided for in subsection (b)(2) hereof.
C. Control the quantities and rates of discharge of such waters or wastes.
(4) No preliminary treatment plant and facility shall be constructed or operated unless all plans, specifications, technical operating data, and other information pertinent to its proposed operation and maintenance shall conform to all Village, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, and any other local, State, or Federal agency regulations, and unless written approval of the plans, specifications, technical operating data, and sludge disposal has been obtained from Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and any other local, State or Federal agency having regulatory authority with respect thereto.
(5) All such preliminary treatment facilities as required by this chapter shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operating condition by the user or person operating and maintaining the facility served thereby, and at the user's expense.
(6) No provision contained in this chapter shall be construed to prevent or prohibit a separate or special contract or agreement between the Village and any industrial user whereby industrial waste and material of unusual strength, character or composition may be accepted by the Village for treatment, subject to additional payment therefor by the industrial user; provided, however, that such contract or agreement shall have the prior approval of Council.
(7) The Village reserves the right to reject admission to the system of any waste harmful to the treatment or collection facilities or to the receiving stream.
(d) Discharge Permits.
(1) The Village reserves the right to require a discharge permit from commercial or industrial users of the sewer, and, if the Village does exercise the option, commercial or industrial users shall not discharge to a sewer system, without having first applied for and obtained a permit from the Village Administrator. Upon official notification from the Administrator, each commercial or industrial user presently discharging material to the sewer shall apply for and obtain such a discharge permit within ninety days from the date of such notification.
(2) Commercial and industrial classification codes set forth in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972 Edition, as amended and supplemented, are adopted by the Village Administrator as the basis for the issuance of discharge permits for building connections to a sewer.
(3) The application for a discharge permit shall be made on a form provided for that purpose by the Administrator and shall be fully completed under oath by the property owner, user or a duly authorized and knowledgeable officer, agent or representative thereof, and acknowledged. If requested, the person making application shall also submit such scientific or testing data, or other information as may be required by the Administrator. The Administrator shall also have, at his discretion, the right to personally inspect the premises, equipment and material and laboratory testing facilities of the applicant.
(4) No fee shall be charged for a discharge application or permit, unless the Administrator will incur costs to have the application reviewed by a private firm. The Administrator will then charge fees to cover such costs.
(5) No discharge permit shall be issued by the Administrator to any person whose discharge of material to sewers, whether shown upon the application to determine after inspection and testing conducted by the Administrator, is not in conformance with Federal, State or Village statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations, unless a waiver or variance of such standards and requirements is granted by the Administrator in the manner hereinafter set forth. The Administrator shall state in writing the reason or reasons for denial or requirement for waiver-variance and such written communication shall be mailed or personally delivered to the applicant within five days after denial.
(6) In the event the type or volume of material from property for which a discharge permit was previously granted shall materially and substantially change, the person granted such permit previously, shall make a new application to the Administrator in the same manner and form as originally made.
(7) If the application for a new permit or for one because of change in the type or volume of material discharge is denied by the Administrator, or if the discharge indicated from the permit application or inspection is not in accordance with the requirements of subsection (d)(5) hereof, and a waiver or variance is required, the user may have the Administrator review the denial or may request waiver-variance, provided the user shall give written notice of his request within thirty days after receiving the denial. The Administrator shall review the permit application, the written denial, and such other evidence and matters as the applicant and the Administrator shall present at its next regular meeting following receipt of request for its review, and the decision of the Administrator rendered publicly at such meeting shall be final.
(8) In the event that any discharge of material to a sewer shall materially and substantially differ in type and volume than shown in the application and permit, the person and user shall immediately, upon order of the Administrator, cease and desist from such discharge and shall also be subject to disconnection, fine and other penalties provided by this chapter.
(9) A grant of waiver or variance by the Administrator may set forth such conditions, exceptions, time limitations, durations, and expirations as the Administrator deems necessary and proper.
(e) Reporting Criteria for Nonresidential Users.
(1) The Village reserves the right to require any nonresidential user to submit quarterly to the Village Administrator on forms provided by the Village, a certified statement of the characteristics of its industrial wastes discharged in the sewers and treatment works of the Village or to any sewers connected to its treatment works. This statement shall be filed with the Village Administrator no later than the tenth day of the month following the quarter for which the report is required.
(2) The waste characteristics to be measured and certified by the user shall be:
A. BOD in milligrams per liter.
B. Suspended solids in milligrams per liter.
C. Such other constituents of wastewater as directed by the Village Administrator.
(3) Should there be a difference in understanding between the Administrator and user as to the characteristics in subsection (e) hereof, the Administrator reserves the right to use his results from analyses for purpose of billing. Should submission not be made during the ten day period, the Administrator shall use his results from analyses for purposes of billing.
(4) Whenever required by the Administrator, the owner of any property serviced by a building sewer carrying nonresidential wastewater and material shall install a large manhole or sampling chamber in the building sewer in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Administrator and installed and maintained at all times at the user's expense. There shall be ample room in each sampling chamber to accurately sample and composite samples for analysis. The chamber shall be safely, easily and independently (of other premises and buildings of user) accessible to authorized representatives of the Administrator at all times. Where construction of a sampling chamber is not economically or otherwise feasible, alternate arrangements for sampling may be arranged at the discretion of the Administrator.
(5) Each sampling chamber shall contain a Parshall flume, weir, or similar device with a recording and totalizing register for measuring liquid quantity; or the metered water supply to the industrial plant may be used as a measure of liquid quantity where it is substantiated by the Administrator that the metered water supply and waste quantities are approximately the same or where a measurable adjustment agreed to by the Administrator is made in the metered water supply to determine the liquid waste quantity.
(6) Samples shall be taken every hour or half hour, as determined by the Administrator, and properly refrigerated and composited in proportion to the flow for a representative twenty-four hour sample. Such sampling shall be done as prescribed by the Administrator to insure representative quantities for the entire reporting period. Minimum requirements for determination of representative quantities or characteristics shall include reevaluation during each twelve month period. The determination of representative quantities and characteristics shall include not less than seven consecutive calendar days of twenty-four hour composite samplings taken during periods of normal operation, together with acceptable flow measurements.
(7) The sampling frequency, sampling chamber, metering device, sampling methods and analyses of samples shall be subject, at any time, to inspection and verification by the Administrator.
(8) All measurements, tests, and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this section shall be determined in accordance with the standard methods specified in Section 929.07
(57) or with any other method approved by the Administrator.
(9) The Administrator may elect, at his option, to have the metering and sample collection done by the industrial plant personnel and have composite samples delivered to the Village wastewater treatment laboratory for analysis. This procedure can also be terminated at any time by the Administrator upon reasonable notice.
(f) Private Sewage Treatment and Disposal.
(1) Where a public sewer is not available, as set forth in subsection (a) hereof, the building or structure shall be connected to a private sewer, and a disposal or treatment system shall be constructed in compliance with the terms and provisions of all applicable City, County, State and Federal laws and regulations.
(2) Within ninety days after a property served by a private sewer or disposal system as described in this section shall become subject to the terms and provisions of subsection (a)(7), a direct connection shall be made to the public sewer according to the terms and provisions of this chapter, and all private sewers, disposal systems, septic tanks, cesspools, and other appurtenances of such private sewer and disposal system shall be disconnected and abandoned and all openings, tanks, or other containers of human wastes, garbage and other wastes shall be permanently filled with granular material.
(3) The Village shall not be responsible in any way for the operation and maintenance of a private sewer or disposal system or facility.
(4) No provisions of this chapter shall be construed to provide lesser requirements for private sewers and disposal systems as are presently or may hereafter be imposed and required by any other local governmental body or the State or Federal government.
(g) Service to Outlying Territory.
(1) The Village, by proper resolution of Council, shall have the right at its discretion, upon payments, terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon, to contract in writing for the right to use any sewer serving property located wholly or partly outside the Village's corporate limits.
(2) In the event a contract is made pursuant to subsection (g)(1) hereof, a user of any sewer serving property wholly or partly outside the Village's corporate limits shall be subject to all of the terms and provisions of this chapter, and in addition to all payments and charges, be required to pay all equivalent costs, taxes, charges and expenses as would be imposed upon and paid by a user situated within the corporate limits of the Village.
(3) If any property of a person desirous of becoming a user is situated outside the corporate limits of the Village, the Village at its discretion may permit such a connection, provided that a contract providing essentially the following be entered into between the Village and the user:
A. The user may connect buildings situated only on the fully-described tract or area set forth in the agreement and in accordance with all applicable laws, ordinances and regulations of the Village and local, State and Federal governments.
B. The wastes and material discharged shall meet all present and future standards for content and volume, and the user shall further agree to pay all future connections, user, and treatment or service charges which are applicable to all property and users uniformly.
C. The user shall, in addition to costs noted previously, pay debt service charges as established by the Village Administrator, if applicable.
D. If the user, or any successor or assigns thereof, shall fail to pay the charges when due, each and every sewer upon the property, or any subdivided tract thereof, for which payment is not made shall be disconnected by the owner from any other sewer which was connected under the contact and ultimately attached to the Village treatment plant. The user shall have caused or required its sewer system to be constructed within the property in order that separate tracts may be so disconnected. By tapping into the Village sanitary sewer system, the user for himself and his heirs, successors and assigns, forever, shall be deemed to have given and granted the Village an irrevocable easement for the purpose of going upon his land and disconnecting any such sewer if the producer, its successors or assigns, fail to disconnect promptly when such is required.
E. In addition to the right of disconnection, the Village shall have the right to file a civil suit to collect such amounts as are delinquent and due against the user, the full cost incurred in disconnection, and all its reasonable legal expenses and attorney’s fees incurred as a result of the suit.
F. All amounts charged under subsection (g)(3) are due and shall continue to be due hereunder, whether or not such sewer is disconnected, and no sewer shall be reconnected until the Village is paid in full for all amounts due it.
G. The Village shall not, without its prior written consent and acceptance, have dedicated to it, or own, any sewer system installed within the property, and the producer, its successors and assigns, shall maintain the same at its own cost; provided, however, that this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the dedication of part or all of such sewer system to another unit of government.
H. Upon conveyance by the owner of all or any subdivided portion or tract of the property, the successor in title shall succeed to all rights and liabilities hereunder, and such owner shall have no future liability to the Village thereunder in respect to such tract except as shall have accrued as of the date the instrument of conveyance is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Licking or Knox County, State of Ohio.
I. In the event that such property therein described, or any subdivided or separate tract thereof, shall be annexed to the Village by proper ordinance, then the agreement executed pursuant to subsection (g)(3) hereof, as to such property or the subdivided or separate tract thereof which is so annexed, shall then terminate and be of no further force and effect.
J. The agreement executed under subsection (g)(3) hereof shall be recorded and filed with the Fiscal Officer, which recording shall constitute notice to any successor or assign of the owner of its terms and provisions and to which any subsequent conveyance or assignment of the owner shall be subject.
K. If any part or provision of the agreement shall be found or held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, then the entire agreement shall terminate and all sewers of the owner or its successors or assigns shall be promptly disconnected from any such system which ultimately connects to the Village treatment plant.
L. The applicant for treatment service under an agreement pursuant to subsection (g)(3), shall agree to assume user charges, industrial waste charges, and debt service charges, if applicable, and to obtain from the Village the proper building permit by which the connection is allowed and the discharge permit, if applicable, which indicates what discharge will be made to the treatment system.
(h) Septic Haulers.
(1) Nonindustrial users hauling liquid wastes to the treatment plant shall be assessed user charge unit charges for billable flow and extra strength waste charges, if applicable, all of which are to be determined by the Village Administrator.
(2) Industrial users hauling liquid wastes to the treatment plant shall be assessed user charges as described in subsection (h)(1).
(3) Liquid wastes hauled to the treatment plant containing concentrations of constituents in excess of the limits set forth in subsection (b) hereof shall not be accepted.
(i) Construction of Sewers and Connections for Buildings.
(1) No unauthorized person shall make connections with any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Village Administrator.
(2) Application for a permit shall be signed by the owner, lessee or agent of the property for which the connection is desired and by the person employed to perform the work, and must describe the property and state the purpose for which the connection is desired. All applications filed shall be accompanied by a tap-on fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00) payable to the Village. Applications shall be filed with the Fiscal Officer upon a form to be supplied by the Village.
(3) The owner shall be responsible for making connection to the Village sanitary sewer system. All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Village from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
(4) 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.
(5) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Village Administrator to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(6) The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench shall be as follows:
A. Size. The minimum size for any building sewer shall be four inches inside diameter.
B. Grade. The building sewer shall be laid on a straight, uniform and minimum grade of one percent (1%).
C. Materials. The pipe and joints for any building sewer shall be manufactured of either unplasticized, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic meeting the requirements of ASTM Specification 03034, latest revisions, or other pipe material approved by the Village Administrator.
D. Excavation.
1. Except in rock, water-bearing earth, or where a granular or concrete base is to be used, mechanical excavation of trenches shall be stopped above the final invert grade elevations so that the pipe may be laid on a firm, undisturbed, native earth bed. If overdigging occurs, all loosened earth must be moved and the trench bottom brought back to grade with granular material.
2. All sewers shall be constructed on firm foundations and the sewer builder shall use such construction methods as may be necessary to prevent settlement of the pipe after it is laid. If, in the opinion of the Village Administrator, the material encountered at the bottom of the trench at the grade of the sewer is unsuitable for foundation, the sewer builder shall excavate to such further depth or width, or shall take such other steps as may be directed by the Village Administrator, to provide a good foundation. Authorized excavation below grade shall be filled with suitable material as directed by the Village Administrator.
3. The bottom of the trench shall be carefully graded, shaped and tamped to conform to the outside circumference of the pipe before any pipe is laid. Bell holes, if bell and spigot pipe is used, shall be ample size to permit joints to be made but shall not unduly encroach upon the bottom bearing for the pipe barrel. All rock or stones protruding above the prepared bed of the pipe shall be removed so that in no case will rock touch pipe either along the barrel or in bell holes. Onto this prepared bed, the pipe shall be carefully bedded and checked for line and grade.
E. Pipe placement.
1. The laying of pipe in finished trenches shall be commenced at the lowest point, with the spigot ends pointing in the direction of flow.
2. Preparatory to making pipe joints, all surfaces of the portions of the pipes to be jointed, or of the factory-made jointing material shall be clean and dry. Lubricants, primers, adhesives, etc. shall be used as recommended by the pipe or joint manufacturers’
specifications. The jointing materials or factory-fabricated joints shall then be placed, fitted, joined and adjusted in such a workmanlike manner as to obtain the degree of watertightness required. Trenches shall be kept waterfree and as dry as possible during bedding, laying and jointing for as long a period as required.
F. Backfilling.
1. After the sewer pipe has been laid and the joint completed, care shall be taken in subsequent operations to maintain the pipe to line and grade and to prevent movement. Backfilling operations shall be so conducted as to insure against such movement.
2. Sand, crusher run stone, grits, bank run sand and gravel, or selected trench excavation, if approved by the Village Administrator, shall be hand-placed and tamped along the sides of the pipe and worked under the sides of the pipe without "lifting" the pipe or causing other movement which will break the joint or cause the pipe to move off alignment. The foregoing described selected material shall be used as backfill around the pipe up to the spring line, halfway up the pipe. Select earth backfill shall then be placed along the sides of the pipe and thoroughly tamped in six inch layers until the top of the pipe is covered with six inches of select tamped material. Mechanical or other means of accomplishing the balance of the backfill may be used then for filling the remainder of the trench.
3. The trenches and other excavation shall be backfilled with the best of excavated material, in such a manner as will insure the least possible settlement, The backfill and removing of the surplus materials shall follow immediately on the satisfactory laying of the pipe.
G. Testing.
1. A test shall be required to demonstrate the watertightness of the building sewer and shall be made under the supervision and direction of the Village Administrator. The sewer builder shall furnish all labor, equipment and materials required in connection therewith.
2. If the exfiltration test is used, the sewer lateral shall be closed with water until the water elevation in the upstream end of the sewer is not less than four feet above the invert of the sewer pipe or four feet above the ground water elevation in the trench, whichever is higher. The exfiltration will be determined by measuring the amount of water required to maintain the above-stated water elevation for a period of one hour from the start of the test. The entire length of section to be tested shall be full of water for a period of approximately twenty-four hours prior to the start of the test.
3. The amount of exfiltration shall not exceed a rate of 200 gallons per day per inch of pipe diameter per mile of sewer in each and every section tested.
4. If the low-pressure air test is used for testing, the testing procedure shall be performed in accordance with ASTM Spec. C828-75T or the latest revision. Test pressure shall be from 3-1/2 p.s.i. to 2-1/2 p.s.i. with allowable air loss of 0.003 cubic feet per minute per square feet of internal pipe surface. All safety precautions as required by ASTM C828 shall be followed when conducting the air test.
5. If the test results do not come to within the limits specified, such work as may be necessary in order to insure conformance, even to the extent of reconstructing the defective section or sections, will be required.
(7) The building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation to permit gravity flow to the public sewer. In buildings in which the 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 at the owner's expense and discharged to the building sewer.
(8) The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall be made at the "Y" branch, if such branch is available at a suitable location. If the public sewer is twelve inches in diameter or less, and no properly located "Y" branch is available, a "Y" branch or saddle shall be installed in the public sewer at the location specified by the Village Administrator. Where the public sewer is greater than twelve inches in diameter, and no properly located "Y" branch is available, a neat hole may be cut into the public sewer to receive the building sewer, with entry in the downstream direction at an angle of about forty-five degrees (45°). A forty-five degree (45°) ell may be used to make such connection, with the spigot end cut so as not to extend past the inner surface of the public sewer. The invert of the building sewer at the point of connection shall be at the same or at a higher elevation than the invert of the public sewer. A smooth neat joint shall be made, and the connection made secure and watertight by encasement in concrete. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Special fittings may be used for the connection only when approved by the Village Administrator. The cost of installing the connection shall be included in the owner's tap-on fee.
(9) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Village Administrator when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Village Administrator.
(10) 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 Village. (Ord. 84-14. Passed 6-4-84.)