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6. Each house or building shall have a separate drain in connection
with the sewer, and no drain shall be laid under any house or
building should it be practicable to lay them outside of same.
7. The drains shall be laid in direct lines between the points of
inspection wherever possible.
8. The drains of all houses and buildings shall consist of glazed
stoneware pipes or of cast iron coated with Dr. Angus Smith's
bituminous rust prevention composition inside and out.
9. All pipes must be laid with watertight joints upon cement
concrete, and where they pass underneath buildings they must, if
of stoneware, be surrounded with not less than (J inches of cement
concrete in the proportions of one part of clean sharp sand, live
parts of clean ballast, and one part of Portland cement, all by
measure; where the covering of pipes underneath any building is
less than one foot, iron pipes shall be used with lead and gaskin
joints.
10. The connection with the street sewer will be made by the
Vestry at the owner's expense, including so much of the work as
will be beneath the public-way, and upon the estimated amount of
same being paid by the applicant to the Surveyor to the Vestry.
No drain shall be laid on the premises until the drain from
sewer to the premises has been laid in accordance with the
above regulation.
12. For the effectual ventilation of the drains at least two
untrapped openings shall be provided.
(a) One opening being at or near the level of the surface of the
ground adjoining such opening shall communicate with the drains
by means of a suitable pipe, shaft, or disconnecting chamber, as
near as practicable to the trap, which shall be provided between the
main drain of the building and the sewer with which such drain
communicates; such opening shall be situate on that side of the
trap nearer the building.
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