Lateral Specs
RESIDENTIAL AND/OR COMMERCIAL
SANITARY SEWER CONNECTIONS
Lateral Drawings
The following are the regulations that have been adopted by the BERKELEY
COUNTY PUBLIC SERVICE SEWER DISTRICT and must be complied with before the
final connection to the main sewer can be made:
1. Installation shall be made in conformance with Berkeley County Public
Service Sewer District standard details; copies of which are hereto
attached.
2. SDR-21, SDR-26, Schedule 40, or SDR-35 pipe with a minimum 4" (4-inch)
diameter shall be used for all laterals and 6" (6-inch) shall be used for
all commercial laterals and also for double laterals with both services
combining with the use of a 6" x 4" double wye fitting per standard detail.
3. Joints: Pipe joints shall be bell and hub gasketed pipe, and fittings.
Solvent weld fittings may be used with Schedule 40 pipe only. Purple cleaner
primer is required with all solvent welds; all bells shall be laid upgrade.
No fernco couplings or fittings will be allowed.
4. Bends: No bends shall be greater than 45 degrees.
5. The building connection shall be laid at a uniform grade of not less than
2% (two percent), and not greater than 7% (seven percent). A drop connection
shall be used to adjust steep grades as required. Steep grades will be
permitted where topographic or other features warrant it.
2% - ¼" per ft. 1% = 1/8" per ft.
6. Clean outs - All laterals shall have a clean out installed 2' inside the
property line, one clean out within 3' of the building, and intermediate
clean outs at no greater than 75' intervals, as required.
7. Bedding - small size diameter gravel, CR-6 or #57 with a minimum of 6"
(six-inches) on the bottom and sides and 12" (twelve inches over the top of
the pipe).
8. All existing service connections that are intended to be used in whole or
in part in the new connection shall be smoke, pneumaticly or hydraulically
tested in the presence of the District's inspector to ascertain that there
are no sources of inflow or infiltration.
9. If the property to be served now has an on-site sewer system (septic tank
or cesspool), the existing system must be pumped, demolished and filled or
removed in accordance with Health Department regulations.
10. It is required that the property owner check to assure that all building
lines connected to the sanitary sewer are properly trapped.
11. No down spouts, surface, or subsurface water drains or sump pumps shall
be connected to the building sewer.
12. The building sewer shall be maintained at no expense to the Berkeley
County Public Service Sewer District.
13. The owner shall accept and abide by all Regulations and Ordinances of
the Berkeley County Public Service Sewer District and of all subsequent
amendments thereto.
14. The property owner (applicant) shall be held responsible for failure to
comply with any of the provisions of this application.
15. No inspections will be made on weekends.
16. Inspection - should be arranged 48 hours in advance. Stone shall be
placed over the pipe prior to inspection. No other backfill will be
permitted until installation is accepted by District inspector.