A. Permit Requirements:
1. Permit Required: 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 Superintendent.
2. Classification of Permits; Fees: There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer permits:
a. For residential wastewater service, and
b. For commercial, institutional/governmental or industrial wastewater service.
Residential:
The owner or his agent shall make application on a form furnished by the City. This permit shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. A fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be paid to the City at the time application is filed.
Industrial:
The owner or his agent shall make application on a form furnished by the City. This permit shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Superintendent. Fee will depend on location, flow rates and size of sewer connection.
3. Restrictions on Issuance of Permit: A building sewer permit will only be issued and a sewer connection shall only be allowed if it can be demonstrated that the downstream sewerage facilities, including sewers, pump stations and wastewater treatment facilities, have sufficient reserve capacity to adequately and efficiently handle the additional anticipated waste load.
B. Separate Sewer Required: A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except, that 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.
C. 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.
D. Construction Specifications:
1. 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 all conform to the requirements of the Building and Plumbing Codes 1 or other applicable rules and regulations of the City. In the absence of code provisions or in amplification thereof, the materials and procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the "American Society of Testing Materials, Water Pollution Control Federation Manual of Practice No. 9", and "Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Main Construction in Illinois" shall apply.
2. 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 a means which is approved in accordance with subsection G1 of this Section and discharged to the building sewer.
E. Connections to Public Sewers:
1. 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 shall be made under the supervision of the superintendent or his representative.
2. 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 city or the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the "American Society Of Testing Materials, Water Pollution Control Federation Manual Of Practice No. 9", and "Standard Specifications For Water And Sewer Main Construction In Illinois". All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the superintendent before installation.
F. Excavations: All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazards. Streets, sidewalks, parkways and other public property disturbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the city.
G. Discharges Into System:
1. All disposal by any person into the sewer system is unlawful except those discharges in compliance with federal standards promulgated pursuant to the federal act and more stringent state and local standards.
2. No person(s) shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer.
H. Liability Of Owner: All costs and expense incident 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 directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer. (Ord., 10-1-1990)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See Section 3-9-1 of this Code. |