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I 208. All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner of the property shall be responsible for the cost of the hook-on from the building to the sewer line along with the cost of connection. The owner or the person installing the building sewer for said owner shall indemnify said Town from any loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by said installation, Maintenance of the building sewer on private property shall be the responsibility of the property owner and not the Town. 209. A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building; except where two buildings are In close proximity and no private sewer lS available or can be constructed to the second building through an adjoining alley, court, yard, or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended to the second building and the whole considered as one building sewer. 210. Old building sewers may be used buildings only when they are found on the Sewer Inspector to meet all Ordinance. In connection with new examination and test by requirements of this 211. Building sewers shall be constructed using extra strength vitrified clay pipe, ASTM Designation C-700; polyvinyl chloride pipe, ASTM Designation D-3034 SDR 35, type PSM; acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) pipe, ASTM Designation D-2661; ductile iron pipe, AWWA Designation C-151; or cast lron pipe, AWWA Designation C-111. All joints in the pipe and fittings shall be gastight and watertight. The Sewer Inspector may require cast iron or ductile iron pipe be used where the building sewer is in the close vicinity to tree roots or where the building sewer is to be placed in filled or unstable soil. Cast iron or ductile iron plpe shall be used for the building sewer where it lS impossible to maintain a ten foot horizontal and a one and one-half foot vertical separation from water mains and water service lines. 212. The size and slope of the building sewers shall be subject to the approval of the Sewer Inspector, but in no event shall the diameter be less than six inches for single family or duplex residential units and not less than six inches for all other uses. The slope of such six inch pipe shall be not less than one-fourth inch per foot or sufficient slope to maintain a two feet per second velocity in the sewer. 213. Whenever possible, the building sewer shall be brought to the building at an elevation below the basement floor. No building sewer shall be laid parallel to or within three feet of any bearing wall, which might thereby be weakened. The depth shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost. The building sewer shall be laid at a uniform grade and in straight alignment insofar as possible. Changes in direction shall be made only with properly curved pipes and fittings. 214. In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such drains shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the building sewer at the owner's expense. 215, All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer shall be open trench work, unless otherwise approved by the Sewer Inspector. Pipe laying and backfill shall be performed in accordance with ASTM specifications applicable to the type of pipe being used, except that no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected by the Sewer Inspector or his representative. -8-