Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT › Article 16 - WATER POLLUTION CONTROL › Section 28-16-55 - Inspection of sewerage systems during construction and prohibited connections

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11,
			 2024
This regulation pertains to the inspection of all components of
				a sewerage system during construction including, but not limited to, treatment
				facilities, lift stations and force mains, outfall sewers, interceptor sewers,
				main and lateral sewers and their extensions, manholes, cleanouts, and building
				sewers.
I. Definitions: Where used in
			 these regulations the following terms shall be understood to have the meaning
			 as given below in their corresponding definitions regardless of any other
			 meaning which may be implied by common or local usage.
(A) Areaways. An areaway is a sunken yard,
			 patio, court, driveway or window well leading into a basement or crawlspace for
			 entrance, light or ventilation.
(B) Building. A building is a structure
			 built, erected, or framed of component structural parts designed for the
			 housing, shelter, enclosure, or support of persons, animals, equipment or
			 property of any kind.
(C) Building
			 drain. The building drain is that part of the lowest piping of a drainage
			 system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes
			 inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning
			 three (3) feet outside the building wall.
(D) Building sewer. The building sewer is
			 that part of the piping of a drainage system which extends from the end of the
			 building drain and which receives the discharge of the building drain and
			 conveys it to a public sanitary sewer, private sanitary sewer, individual
			 sewage disposal system, or other point of disposal.
(E) Crawlspace drain. A crawlspace drain is a
			 drain installed to collect drainage from the surface of any area that is
			 entirely enclosed by foundation walls and beneath a building which area is not
			 covered by a concrete or other form of permanent surfacing.
(F) Garage drain. A garage drain is a drain
			 located in a garage or, in case of a basement garage, within ten (10) feet of
			 garage area.
(G) Inspector. An
			 inspector shall be a consulting engineer, municipal engineer, sewer district
			 engineer, county engineer, or his authorized representative.
(H) Roof drain. A roof drain is a drain which
			 is installed to collect stormwater from building roofs.
(I) Saddle. A saddle is a fitting attached to
			 an existing sanitary sewer to receive a building sewer connection.
(J) Sanitary sewer (sewer). A sanitary sewer
			 (sewer) shall mean a pipe which carries sewage and insofar as practical,
			 excludes infiltration of storm, surface and ground water.
(K) Sewage. Sewage is any substance that
			 contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharges from
			 the bodies of human beings, animals, or chemical or other wastes from domestic,
			 manufacturing or other forms of industry.
(L) Shall. The word "shall" is a mandatory
			 term.
(M) Foundation drains. A
			 foundation drain is a pipe with open joints and/or porous material installed
			 either outside exterior foundation walls or inside and beneath a basement floor
			 for the purpose of preventing the build-up of water pressure and water
			 capillarity beneath the floor.