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Title 18, Chapter 1
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Title 18 : Water and Sewers
Chapter 4 : Sewage Disposal, Public And Private Sewers, And Discharge Into The Public Sewer System

18-402 : Requirements and connection to public sewers.

  1. Requirements for proper wastewater disposal.
    1. It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner on public or private property within the service area of the Town of Halls, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other objectionable waste.
    2. It shall be unlawful to discharge to any waters of the state within the service area of the Town of Halls any sewage or other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in accordance with subsequent provisions of this chapter.
    3. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
    4. Except as provided in § 18-402(1)(e) below, the owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes situated within the service area and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located an accessible public sanitary sewer in the service area, is hereby required at his expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within ninety (90) days after date of official notice to do so.
    5. The owner of a manufacturing facility may discharge wastewater to the waters of the state provided that he obtains an NPDES permit and meets all requirements of the Federal Clean Water Act, the NPDES permit, and any other applicable local, state or federal statutes and regulations.
    6. Where a public sanitary sewer is not accessible, the building sewer shall be connected to a private sewage disposal system complying with the provisions of § 18-403.
  2. Physical connection public sewer.
    1. 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 as required by § 18-403.
    2. All costs and expenses incident to the installation, connection and inspection of new building sewers shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer.
    3. 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, courtyard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer.
    4. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and testing by the superintendent, to meet all requirements of this chapter. All others must be sealed to the specifications of the superintendent.
    5. Building sewers shall conform to the following requirements:
      1. The minimum size of a building sewer shall be four (4) inches.
      2. The minimum depth of a building sewer shall be eighteen (18) inches.
      3. Four (4) inch building sewers shall be laid on a grade greater than 1/8-inch per foot. Larger building sewers shall be laid on a grade that will produce a velocity when flowing full of at least 2.0 feet per second.
      4. Slope and alignment of all building sewers shall be neat and regular.
      5. Building sewers shall be constructed only of:
        1. Concrete or clay sewer pipe using rubber or neoprene compression joints of approved type;
        2. Cast iron soil pipe with leaded or compression joints;
        3. Polyvinyl chloride pipe with solvent welded or with rubber compression joints;
        4. ABS composite sewer pipe with solvent welded or rubber compression joints of approved type; or
        5. Such other materials of equal or superior quality as may be approved by the superintendent. Under no circumstances will cement mortar joints be acceptable.
      6. A cleanout shall be located five (5) feet outside of the building, one as it taps onto the utility lateral and one at each change of direction of the building sewer which is greater than 45 degrees. Additional cleanouts shall be placed no more than seventy-five (75) feet apart in horizontal building sewers of four (4) inch nominal diameter and not more than one hundred (100) feet apart for larger pipes. Cleanouts shall be extended to or above the finished grade level directly above the place where the cleanout is installed. A "Y" (wye) and 1/8 bend shall be used for the cleanout base. Cleanouts shall not be smaller than four (4) inches on a four (4) inch pipe.
      7. Connections of building sewers to the public sewer system shall be made at the appropriate existing wye or tee branch using compression type couplings or collar type rubber joint with corrosion resisting or stainless steel bands. Where existing wye or tee branches are not available, connections of building services shall be made by either removing a length of pipe and replacing it with a wye or tee fitting or cutting a clean opening in the existing public sewer and installing a tee-saddle or tee-insert of a type approved by the superintendent. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight.
      8. The building sewer may be brought into the building below the basement floor when gravity flow from the building to the sanitary sewer is at a grade of 1/8-inch per foot or more. In cases where basement or floor levels are lower than the ground elevation at the point of connection of the sewer, adequate precautions by installation of check valves or other backflow prevention devices to protect against flooding shall be provided by the owner. 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 an approved means and discharged to the building sewer at the expense of the owner.
      9. The methods to be used in excavating, placing of pipe, jointing, testing, backfilling the trench, or other activities in the construction of a building sewer which have not been described above shall conform to the requirements of the building and plumbing code or other applicable rules and regulations of the town or to the procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and Water Pollution Control Federal Manual of Practice No. 9. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the superintendent before installation.
      10. An installed building sewer shall be gastight and watertight.
    6. 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 town.
    7. No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, area drains, basement 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.
  3. Inspection of connections.
    1. The sewer connection and all building sewers from the building to the public sewer main line shall be inspected before the underground portion is covered by the superintendent of his authorized representative.
    2. The applicant for discharge 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.
  4. Maintenance of building sewers. Each individual property owner or user of the POTW shall be entirely responsible for the maintenance of the building sewer located on private property. This maintenance will include repair or replacement of the service line as deemed necessary by the superintendent to meet specifications of the town. (Ord. of Dec. 7, 1981)