Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-10-02
ORDINANCE BILL NO. 217.
Material to be Used-Other Speci-
fications.

t;ons of the new ordinance that has ius
passed the Corvallis City Council:
Section 2. ALI material must be o
good quality and free from cefects, ant
the work must be executed in thorough
and workmanlike manner.
Sec. 8. The arrangement of soil, v ast.
or vent pipes must be as direct as posi-
Bile.
Sec. 4. Dram, waste and soil pipes,
through which water and sewage is
used and carried, shall be of cast iron oil
lead when within a building. They
shall be sound, free from holes or other
defects; they shall be securely ironed 10
wall, laid in trenches of uniform grade,
or suspended to floor timbers by strong
iron hangers; they shall have proper
fall of not less than one-quarter inch per
foot towards the. drain or sewer; vertical
soil pipes shall be carried out throug b
the opening and undimlnished in siz. (;
all soil pipes shall be vented by pipe
running not less than one foot above the
highest part of the roof; changes in di-
rection shall be with regular fittings and
connected with horizontal soil or waste
pipes, shall be made with "Y" branches
or sanitary tees, or one-eighth or one
sixth bends.
Sec. 5. All joints or vitrifed terra Gotta
pipe shall be made with equal parts OF
best Portland cement and clean sharp
sand, and as each joint is laid it shall be
carefully cleaned on the inside The ce-
ment must be well pressed into the hub,
and the bevel outside the socket made
smooth and solid.
Sec. 6. All cast iron pipes must be
sound and free from defects; but in
buildings of two stories or less standard
weight may be used. And in buildings
OF more than two stories not more than
the two upper stories may be of standard
weights.
+ Sec. 7. Every house or building here
alter connected with the sewers must
have the house drain constructed OF cast
iron, and it must extend three feet out
side of property building line, and must
have a fall of at least one-fourth inch to
the foot. 1t shall run around the cellar
wall where practicable, or if laid under
the lower floor of building shall be
hung In iron straps securely fastened to
the floor joints. It shall be laid in as
straight line as possible. All changes
In direction must be made in curved |
plp@, and all connections with "Y"
branches and one eighth bends, where ]
i've or more closets are connected. to six |
inches in diameter, extended to main |
sewer undiminished in size. All chang
es must be made with "Y" branches or
ene-sixth or one eeighth bends, where
practicable, and must be approved by
the Chief of Police. All soil, vent and
waste pipes must be securely fastened to
walls and joints with strong iron hang
ers in good and workmanlike manner,
to the satisfaction of the Chief of Police.
Sec. 8. No brick, sheet, mental or
fius shall be used as a sew
er ventllator, or to ventilate any trap,
drain, soil or aste pipe; nor shall any
chimney fue be used for that purpose,
and the terminus of all vents must be at
east five feet from the f1ues, water tanks
or air shafts, and in no case shall they
at a lower distance than five
eet above the cutters, windows or other
openings.
Sec. 9. Every vertical line OF soil pipe
must be of cast iron; waste pipes must
'e of cast iron or lead, and where it re-
elves the discharge of fixtures on two or
more floors. it must extend at least onel
Dot above the highest part of the roof or
oping or light shaft lowers of undimin-i
she'd size.
Sec. 10. All connections of lead with
on pipes must be made with brass
omb, brass ferule of tile same size as
ne lead pipe, and caulked or screwed in
the iron pipe and connected with the
'ad pipe by wiped joint, or Raymond
'rule may be used on buildings of notl
lore than two stories, and in buildings
more than two stories the brass shall
used by means of a wiped joint; thel
st two stories a Raymond ferule may
: used.
Sec. IL. Every sink, bath tub. basin,
ater closet, urinal set of wash trays,
ID every fixture having waste pipe
lau be separately and Independently
apped with water sealing trap placed
near the. fixtures as practicable. In
case shall the waste from a bath tub
other fixture be connected with a wat
closet tray; traps must be protected
'm syphonage, and the waste pipe lead
from them ventilated by special air
De the size of the tran or pinor for Uof