§ 50-258. General.

(a)

Scope.

(1)

The contractor shall furnish all materials (unless otherwise agreed upon), labor and equipment necessary to construct the sewers, and appurtenances indicated or shown on the drawings. The work shall include all necessary diking, pumping, bailing, draining, flushing, testing and erosion and sedimentation control.

(2)

The contractor shall so arrange his work as to cause a minimum of interference with pedestrian and vehicular traffic and to protect and maintain power and telephone lines, gas and water piping, fences, building, drainage pipes and other structures, all as specified.

(3)

The lines and grade of the sewer and the position of all manholes and other appurtenances are as shown on the drawings. The grade line as shown means the invert, or bottom of the inside of the pipe or manhole. The work shall be laid out by the contractor using bench marks and the other control points.

(4)

The contractor shall be responsible for removing all water from excavations and trenches whether from surface or ground sources.

(5)

Lift stations will only be permitted on a case by case basis or when gravity sewer is unavailable to the property, or as determined by the city.

(6)

Changes to the standard specifications for sanitary sewers may be made by the city at any time.

(b)

Related work.

(1)

Subdivision III: Sanitary Sewerage Systems.

(2)

Subdivision IV: Excavation, Trenching and Backfilling.

(3)

Subdivision V: Site Preparation, Restoration and Related Work.

(c)

Applicable specifications and standards. The latest editions of the following specifications, standards and publications setting minimum requirements for quality, safety and performance of work and materials form a part of this specification as though fully repeated herein:

(1)

ASTM American Society of Testing Materials.

(2)

ANSI American National Standards Institute.

(d)

Record drawings.

(1)

The contractor shall be responsible for maintaining a set of the approved design drawings which have been marked to reflect as-built conditions. These record drawings shall be kept at the site during working hours and shall be made available to the city inspector upon request.

(2)

The record drawings shall show the as constructed locations of, but not be limited to, all manholes, stub-outs, service materials, cleanouts air release valves, etc.

(3)

Appurtenance locations shall be dimensioned to three permanent fixtures or objects.

(Ord. No. 404, att. A(§ 6, pt. 1), 7-1-2009)