(a) Permit Required. No water main which shall serve or be designed to serve more than one premises shall be constructed, reconstructed or altered in the Village unless a permit has been issued by the Department.
(b) Application. Application for permits shall be accompanied by complete plans, designed per the Village Design and Construction Standards, and cost estimates all of which shall be submitted to the Manager, or his or her designee, for review and approval before a permit is issued. The review will include:
(1) Checking water main plans for size of mains and adequacy of gates and fire hydrants.
(2) Determining types of joints on the basis of the characteristics of the particular area.
(3) Determining protection of pipe, width of trench, and strength of pipe by depth of sewer and type of soil conditions.
(4) Checking needs to determine sizes.
(5) General review of cost estimate for the purpose of payment of fees.
(6) Review of compliance with Village standards and specifications.
(c) Issuance of Permit. If the plans and specifications are approved by the Manager, or his or her designee, Commerce Township, the Oakland County Drain Commissioner, Detroit Water Department and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, as applicable, the construction permit shall be issued upon payment of the fees as provided in this chapter. If the Manager, or his or her designee, does not approve the plans and specifications, he or she shall give his/her recommendations in writing to the Village with a copy to the applicant. The applicant may amend the plans and specifications in accordance with the recommendations or may appeal the decision of the Manager, or his or her designee, to the Village Administrator in writing.
(d) Inspection and Investigation. The Manager, or his or her designee, shall make, or cause to be made, inspections of the project during its construction. Inspections shall include the receipt of material tests and requests for compaction tests by an approved independent testing laboratory (at the cost of the owner) as the work progresses and as he or she shall deem necessary to insure that the sewer or water main will be built in accordance with the approved plans and specifications and in accordance with all provisions of this chapter and ordinances and regulations of the County of Oakland. The Manager, or his or her designee, shall have the right to authorize minor departures from the approved plans and specifications where necessary because of unforeseen circumstances, but no departures from the approved plans and specifications shall be made without the prior knowledge of the consulting engineers that prepared the original plans. If the Manager, or his or her designee, shall find that the improvements are not being installed or constructed in accordance with the aforementioned standards, he/she shall issue a written notice of violation requiring the installation or construction to be corrected. In the notice the Manager, or his or her designee, shall specify a time limit for the correction of the violations. If the violations are not corrected within the specified time, the Manager, or his or her designee, may order all work stopped.
(e) "As Built" Drawing Required. Upon completion of the project the Manager, or his or her designee, shall make a final field inspection accompanied by the owner's consulting Engineer. The Consulting Engineer shall furnish the Department with copies of "as built" drawings of the project and shall furnish the Manager, or his or her designee, with one set of reproducible Mylar plans and/or an electronic file compatible with the Village's software.
(f) Right to enter premises. By connecting premises to the Village water system the owner thereof irrevocably grants to the Village and the Department or their agents the right to enter at all reasonable times onto or in the premises for the purposes of reading meters and installation, inspection, repair and maintenance of water supply and water use facilities on the premises.
(g) Facilities to be Extended Across Entire Frontage of Property Served. Water facilities, including mains and laterals, shall be extended across the entire frontage of the property to be served and taken to the furthest boundary of the property to be served in a manner consistent with the Village Water Master Plan.
(Ord. 146. Passed 6-8-05.)