(A) No unauthorized person shall uncover; make any connection with or opening into; use; alter; or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit from the Director of Public Services.
(B) 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.
(C) There shall be two classes of building sewer permits: one class for residential wastewater service, and one class for commercial, institutional/ governmental, or industrial wastewater service. In either case, the owner or his or her agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the city.
(1) The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgement of the Director of Public Services. A permit and inspection fee in accordance with division (C)(2) below for a residential or commercial building sewer permit shall be paid to the city at the time the application is filed. The industry, as a condition of permit authorization, must provide information describing its wastewater constituents, characteristics, and type of activity.
(2) Connections made to all trunk sewers shall be as follows:
(a) Single-family units shall be charged a $1,500 tapping fee for connecting to the city sewer system;
(b) Multi-family units shall be charged $750 for the first unit plus $150 for each additional unit as a tapping fee for connecting to the city sewer system; and
(c) Commercial and industrial units shall be charged $3,000 for one six-inch tap and $1,500 for each additional six-inch tap that may be required, as a tapping fee.
(D) A building sewer permit will only be issued and a sewer connection shall only be allowed if it can be demonstrated that the downstream sewage facilities, including sewers, pump stations and wastewater treatment facilities, have sufficient reserve capacity to adequately and efficiently handle the additional anticipated waste load.
(E) 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 bolding sewer.
(F) 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.
(G) Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Director of Public Services, to meet all requirements of this chapter.
(H) (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 conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the city.
(2) 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 9, and Standard Specifications for Water and Sewer Main Construction in Illinois shall apply. All such connections shall be made gas-tight and water-tight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the Director of Public Services before installation.
(I) 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 § 51.010(B), and discharged to the building sewer.
(J) No persons 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.
(K) The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the Director of Public Services when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Director of Public Services or his or her representative.
(L) All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights provided by the property owner or person having work performed 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 city.
(M) The expense for cleaning, maintaining, or repairing building sewers of any private property owners to the city sewer system, or the cleaning, maintaining, or repairing of any private sewer, not heretofore or hereafter accepted by the city, shall be borne by the property owner or person having such work performed.
(Prior Code, § 51.012) (Ord. 88-9, passed 9-20-1988; Ord. 18-16, passed 7-16-2018) Penalty, see § 51.999