With permits, inspections, impact fees the city makes a sewer hookup sound like a very complicated process. Their wanting $5,000 for that hookup enforces the idea of complexity.
Next door a new house is going in, I spied a couple city worker digging around with shovels where I supposed the sewer hookup will be. Yes, they were hooking up the sewer, with a shovel, hacksaw, pvc and glue.
Turns out the sewer line from the street to the grinder pump, by the house, is 3″ buried about 2 feet down it feeds into a city sewer collector also 3″ which feeds into the city main which is 6″. The grinder pump is fed by a 6″ from the house, the grinder macerates tshirts and other stuff coming down the 6″ into a 3″ slurry.
Cleanout next to where grinder pump will go, next to house.
30 lb test pressure.
View of street junction, 3″ to 3″
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