Section 2874. Building Sewers and Connections
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 City.
Any person proposing a new discharge into the system or a substantial change in the volume or character of pollutants that are being discharged into the system shall notify the City at least forty-five (45) days prior to the proposed change or connection, and shall comply with the Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, Title 38, Chapter 3, Subchapter I, 361.
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13 Ordinance No. 82-82-2 Section 2874 adopted March 7, 1983
14 Ordinance No. 84-75-A Section 2874 adopted November 5, 1984
15 Ordinance No. 85-15 Section 2874 adopted May 16, 1985
16 Ordinance No. 85-57 Section 2874 adopted September 3, 1985
17 Ordinance No. 89-39 Section 2874 adopted July 4, 1989
There shall be two (2) classes of building sewer permits: (a) for residential and commercial service, and (b) for service to establishments producing industrial wastes. In either case, the owner or his agent shall make application on a special form furnished by the City. The permit application shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications, or other information considered pertinent in the judgement of the City. A permit and inspection fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) for new residential or commercial building sewer, seventy five dollars ($75.00) for an industrial building sewer and $25.00 for replacement of any existing sewer connection shall be paid to the City at the time the application is filed. However, no permit or inspection fee will be charged for any approved connection to a newly constructed sewer pipe within sixtydays
after such newly constructed sewer pipe is declared serviceable or for any approved connection to existing sewer pipes made within sixty day after adoption of this ordinance. Before a commercial or industrial permit can be issued, review and approval by the City must be obtained. A state plumbing permit will also be required. After January 1, 1983, and in addition to the permit fee above and whether or not a permit or inspection fee is paid, a cumulative capital cost fee equal to ninety dollars ($90.00) times the number of years and structure has been in existence from January 1, 1983, to the date of connection to the sewer system up to a maximum of eighteen hundred ($1800.00) for twenty years existence shall be paid. This charge represents a pro rata share of the local capital cost for construction of the Wastewater Treatment Facility built as part of EPA Project C 230151. Funds collected for payment of cumulative cost are to be credited to the Wastewater Treatment SystemBudget.
All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of all new building sewers including, but not limited to, equipment, materials and labor charges for installation of sewer pipe in the right of way from the property line to the sewer as well as for installation of sewer pipe on owners property, shall be borne by the owner. Installation of the building sewer within the right of way shall be done by the City and the cost for such shall be reimbursed to the City by the owner requesting the new building sewer. Such costs shall be part of the sewer charges to the property served and shall be collected in accordance with Section 2865 of this ordinance. 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. The City
shallmaintain and/or replace at its expense existing building sewer connections in the right of way to the property line. The owner shall be responsible for the building sewer located on private property.
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 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.
Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the City, to meet all requirements of this Code. Any cost involved in examinations and tests shall be paid by the person making the application for a permit.
The size, slope, alignment, materials of construction of a building sewer, and the methods to be used in excavating, place of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall all conform to the requirements of the State and City building and plumbing code 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 inappropriate specifications of the American Standard Testing Methods (ASTM) and Water Pollution Control Federation (WPCF) Manual of Practice No. 9 shall apply.
Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. In all building 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.
No person shall make connections of roof downspouts, exterior foundation drains, areaway drains, basement sump pump 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.
The connection of the building sewer into the public sewer shall conform to the requirements of the State and City building and plumbing code or other rules and regulations of the City, or procedures set forth in appropriate specifications of the ASTM and WPCF Manual of Practice No. 9. All such connections shall be made gastight and watertight. Any deviation from the prescribed procedures and materials must be approved by the City before installation.
The applicant for the building sewer permit shall notify the City when the building sewer is ready for inspection and connection to the public sewer. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the City.
All excavations for building sewer installation shall be adequately guarded by the applicant 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 works shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City.
The City shall be responsible for the maintenance and replacement of Public Sewers within the public right of way from the property lines to the Public Sewer.
Whenever a blockage of a building sewer occurs and the owner notifies the City, the City will attempt to clear the blockage. If the blockage is found within the private property, the owner will be billed for all cost associated with attempting to clear the blockage, whether or not the blockage is cleared, and such cost shall become part of the sewer user fee for that property. If the blockage is found within the public right of way, the City shall bear the costs for clearing the blockage. The City shall not be responsible for any costs for work not authorized by the City Manager, and shall not be responsible for replacement of any building sewer within the private property.
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