Content Page: 9 Drainage and Sewerage

  • Built-In Pipes For Rain-Water

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    All rain-water down-pipes, if built in so as to be inaccessible, shall be of cast iron which has been effectively proofed against corrosion, or of screwed, galvanized mild steel, U.P.V.C. or other approved pressure-piping capable of withstanding a hydraulic head equal to twice the height of the pipe.

  • Storm-Water Not To Flow Into Sewers And Septic Tanks

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    (1) No person shall cause or permit any spring-water, subsoil-water, surface-water or storm-water, or any drain, to discharge or flow into any sewer except with the prior written permission, or by direction shall be subject to the conditions, inter alia, that any such spring-water, subsoil-water, surface-water, storm-water or drain shall discharge into a trapped gully…

  • Sewage Not To Flow Into Drains Or Storm-Water Channels

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    (1) No person shall cause or permit any sewage or trade effluent, or any private sewer, to discharge into or communicate with any private or public drain or open storm-water channel. (2) No person shall cause or permit to be discharged into any private drain, public drain or open storm-water channel any liquid, substance or…

  • Discharge From Swimming -Baths

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    (1) No water shall be discharged directly or in-directly from a swimming-bath into a sewer unless written permission to do so shall first have been obtained from the local authority. (2) Any such written permission shall be subject to such conditions as the local authority shall determine, including, in particular, a condition that the permission…

  • Cleaning Of Plumbing And Sewerage System Before Use

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    All parts of sewers and of the plumbing system shall, after installation or repairs, and before being used, be left clean of all jointing compounds, metal fittings, loose solder or any other material liable to cause electrolytic action, stoppage or damage of any kind.

  • Material And Labour

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    All equipment, materials and labour necessary to enable the local authority to inspect or test any plumbing work or sewerage work shall be furnished by the person executing such plumbing or sewerage work.

  • Defective Material Or Workmanship

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    If the inspection or testing of sewerage work or plumbing work reveals the presence of defective material or work, such defective material or work shall be replaced or redone, and the inspection and test or tests shall be repeated, until such plumbing work or sewerage work satisfies the tests prescribed by section 95.

  • Tests

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    On completion of all sewerage and plumbing work, but before such work is connected to a conserving-tank, a septic tank or a public sewer, such work shall be inspected by one of the following tests shall, in the presence of such employee, be applied, and such work shall withstand such tests to the satisfaction of…

  • Approval Certificate

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    No person shall use any plumbing or sewerage system before a certificate of approval has been issued in terms of section 45 of Chapter 2.