Evening star., 1881-12-31
SANITARY PLUMBING AND EHOgSs!
DRAINAGE.
Additional Regulations Adopted by tn.
District mniss;Oners.

The additional plumbing and house drainage
regulations adopted by the Commissioners. De
cember 18th. and now in force. are as follows
1st. No house or premises will be allowed t.
be connected with water. sewer or gas main
without permit first obtained from the Enci
neer Commissioner. This regulation applies te
all sewers, whether OH private property or il
public streets or alleys.
Cd. Plumbers desiring to obtain permits 70,
making the necessary excavation for making
sewer connections must deposit with the COllec
tor OF the District Of Columbia the cost O
branch pipe or other material required for use
IN connecting with the main sewer. Blank forms
of application will be furnished to those plumbers
who shall comply with ali the requirements OF
the Commissioners. All applications must be
signed by the owner OF the premises and his
address written under his signature signing b,
agents will not be accepted if the owner resides
in the District of Columbia. Permits will be
issued in duplicate, one fer use of plumber and
one for use of owner.
3d. One dollar is required bv law to be paid as
permit fee for each house connected. the recent
OF which must be endorsed upon the applica-
ton. the fee to be paid to the collector of the
District of Columbia.
4th. All water and sewer connections with the
street mains and sewers must be inspected by
the water and sewer tappers. respectively be-
fore the trench is filed whether the pines are
run to the building line or not, and all appoint
ments for said tappers must be made when the
permit is issued. Sewer laterals are not to be
raised or lowered, or otherwise changed, except
under the inspection of the sewer Taper and by
permit from the Engineer Commissioner
9th. Ali connections with pipe sewers must be
made with branches In all cases where con-
nectiOns are made with brick sewers terra Gotta
junction block. and all other material for use
in or about the publicse sewers, must be purchased
from the District
9th. Pipe sewers must not be cut nor any
connections be made in any manhOe trap. or
trap lateral. Each house must be drained by a
separate sewer. not less than six inches i'm diam
eter having fall OF not less than one in forty.
laid (lnSlde the building Ine) entirely within the
lot to which it belongs. and connecting outside
the building line. Oniy with that part of the
system OF drainage intended for it as shown on
the general plans of sewerage on file in the office
of the Engineer Commissioner
18th. All plumbers are required to notify the
water registrar of any and all extensions or al
terati0ns of water fixtures and pipes made in
side OF buildings, SO that the same may be eX-
anined.
Sth. All concrete pavements must be repaired
by the contractor doing such work for the Dis
trict government. and all granite block pave
ments by the superintendent of repairs. at rates
to be fixed by the Commissioners. Persons de-
string to remove said concrete or granite block
pavement must first deposit with the chief clerk
OF the engineer department the sum OF ten ($10)
dollars. the receipt for which must be exhibited
to the permit clerk before the permit is issued
After the completion of the work the surplus, if
any, will be returned.
9th. All excavations must be filed and pave
ment relaid in as good order as before said exca-
walton was made within thirty days from COM
mencement of work, and the work must be COM
menced within thirty days from date of permit
The permit must be kept upon the ground while
the work is being done, and shown whenever
called tor. The police are instructed to arrest
as required by law, any one they may find max
ing an excavation without permit.
10th. The connections with the public sewers
may be made only in the presence OF the sewer
tapper and the excavation will be left open until
his arrival All permits for tapping sewers are
given on condition that owners take all risk of
damages that may result from water setting
back into the cellars from the main sewers.
11th. In order to prevent as much as possible
the setting back of water from sewers, the
owner shall be required, at his own cost, to put
in self-acting or other valve in all cases when
back flow from a sewer is to be apprehended;
and it shall be the duty Of the owner to keep
the valve in order, and he mast be responsible
or it's action in all cases. When the sewer con-
lection is of ir0n and carriedu within the prem
ses as q close pipe, without opening or connec-
ion of any kind above the level of all back