[Adopted 7-27-1970 as Art. 35 of the 1969 Revised
Ordinances]
A.
The sanitary sewer system of the Town of Dover consists
of the main sewer lines, house laterals, house connections and other necessary
accessories. They are designed to carry off exclusively all liquid house wastes.
B.
The sewers laid longitudinally along the center line
or other part of the streets are termed "main sewers;" the branch sewers extending
from the main sewer to within six feet of the building are termed "house laterals;"
between the main sewer and the curbline is termed "house connection."
C.
The plumbing work within the building and to the end
of the iron pipe six feet outside the building is termed the "house plumbing
system" and shall be under the control of the Board of Health of the Town
of Dover.
The house plumbing system shall be connected with the house lateral
in accordance with the provisions of this Article and the rules and regulations
of the Board of Health.
No person, firm or corporation shall lay, alter or repair any part of
the sewer system, or make any connection whatsoever therewith, unless duly
authorized as hereinafter provided.
A.
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to perform any
work in connection with the sewer system, or any part thereof, shall file
in the office of the Town Clerk an application for a license, signed by the
applicant, giving the name, residence and place of business of the applicant
and the name under which the business is to be transacted and giving further
the experience of said applicant in sewer work. Said application shall contain
an agreement that the applicant will be governed in all respects by the ordinances,
rules and regulations of the town now existing or which may hereafter be adopted.
B.
Every applicant for a license desiring to perform any
work in connection with the sewer system shall execute and enter into a bond
with the Town of Dover in the penal sum of $500 with two or more freehold
sureties, or a surety company, to be approved by the Sewer Committee, conditioned
that the applicant shall indemnify and save harmless said town from all suits
for accidents and damages caused by any negligence in protecting his, their
or its work, or by any unfaithful, inadequate, negligent or imperfect work
done by said applicant, and that said applicant will pay all fines and damages
imposed upon him, them or it for violations of this Article or any ordinance
or regulation of the Town of Dover. Said bond shall be filed in the office
of the Town Clerk.
C.
On receiving a license, said applicant shall record in
the office of the Town Clerk his, their or its actual place of business and
the name under which the business is transacted and shall pay to the Town
Clerk as a license fee the sum of $1 and shall keep the Town Clerk informed
of any change of address or of first name.
D.
No license shall be granted for more than one year, and
all licenses shall expire on the 31st day of December in each year.
A.
Application for permission to connect with the sewer
system, or any part thereof, or to do any work thereon, must be made in writing
by the owner of the property to be sewered, or his other duly authorized agent,
to the Superintendent. Said application shall give the precise location of
the property, the name and address of the owner, the name and address of the
plumber or contractor and shall state what work is to be performed and shall
be accompanied by a sketch showing the relative position of the sewer, the
property and proposed work. This application shall be marked on forms furnished
by the town for the purpose and shall be countersigned by the plumber or contractor.
B.
Said application shall be accompanied by a duplicate
receipt of the Town Clerk showing the deposit by the applicant of the sum
required by the town for permission to open the street and also accompanied
by a receipt showing the payment of the fee required by the town to cover
the cost of inspecting the work. This fee shall be $5 for the first 70 feet
of pipe and $5 for every additional 70 feet or fraction thereof.
C.
No permit shall be deemed to authorize anything not stated
in the application, and for any misrepresentation in said application the
permit may be revoked.
D.
Permits to complete the connection between the house
plumbing system and the sanitary sewer system will not be issued until the
main trunk sewer and disposal plant is in operation.
A.
The trenches shall be dug in a careful manner and properly
sheathed where required. The road materials shall be placed in a separate
pile and not mixed with the rest of the excavated materials which must be
piled in a compact heap, so placed as to cause the least possible inconvenience
to the public. Proper barricades and lights must be maintained around the
trench to guard against accidents.
B.
In backfilling, the material for the two feet immediately
over the pipe shall be selected so it contains no stones. This must be carefully
tamped, the balance of the trench to be backfilled in a workmanlike manner,
tamping the filling in eight-inch layers so as to avoid any settlement. When
the trench has been filled to the proper height, the road material is to be
replaced and heavily tamped or rolled.
C.
Where the trench is excavated in rock, the rock must
be carefully excavated to a depth of six inches below the grade line of the
sewer and the trench brought to the proper elevation with gravel or other
material satisfactory to the Superintendent. The remainder of the trench must
be backfilled with suitable material.
D.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as abrogating
any of the existing requirements of the town relating to the excavation and
backfill of trenches, but the requirements herein contained shall be in addition
there to.
A.
The house laterals from the main sewer to within six
feet of the house shall be made of the best quality of salt glazed vestry
pipes, free from blisters and cracks, not less than five inches in diameter,
of the hub and spigot pattern, sound and cylindrical; all hubs must be of
sufficient diameter to receive to their full depth the spigot end of the next
pipe with any chipping of either and leave sufficient room for jointing material.
B.
The joints of the vitrified pipes shall be watertight
with a gasket of oakum, dipped in cement grout and carefully caulked into
position and the remainder of the joint completely filled with a portland
cement mortar made in the proportion of one part of cement to one part clear
sand; where subsoil conditions are based such special precaution must be taken
to secure a watertight job as may be directed by the Superintendent. In quicksand,
all pipes must be laid on planking, two inches thick by at least six inches
wide.
C.
Said house laterals may be made of extra heavy-cast iron
pipe not less than four inches in diameter, laid in a manner to be approved
by the Superintendent of Sewers.
D.
The pipes shall be laid on a uniform grade wherever practicable,
but the grade must not be less than one-fourth (1/4) inch to one foot unless
by written permission of the Superintendent, in which case special provision
must be made for efficient flushing.
E.
The cover in the Y-branch on the main sewer must be carefully
removed so as not to injure the hub and socket, and care must be taken to
prevent any foreign material from dropping into the main sewer while the Y-branch
is uncovered.
F.
The dead ends of all pipes not immediately connected
to the house plumbing system must be securely closed by a watertight cover
of imperishable material.
G.
The house laterals, and every part thereof, if within
six feet of a building, must be of cast-iron pipe, with leaded joints in accordance
with the rules and regulations of the Board of Health.
H.
Clean outs or handholes or lamp holes are required at
changes of grade or alignments are where house laterals are over 100 feet
long, one for every fifty-foot interval, and shall be of cast-iron pipe with
a brass screw ferrule top and shall be placed at an angle of 45° supported
in an approved manner.
I.
No connection shall be made with the main sewer except
at the Y-branch; no cutting of the main sewer or manholes will be permitted,
unless with the written permission and under the direction of the Superintendent
of Sewers and at the expense of the town.
A.
The Superintendent is to be given notice when any work
is ready for inspection, and all work must be left uncovered and convenient
for examination until after inspection of the same by the Superintendent or
his authorized assistants.
B.
Said inspection shall be made as soon as practicable
after such notification.
C.
The Superintendent may apply any appropriate test to
the pipes, and the plumber or contractor at his own cost shall furnish all
the necessary tools, labor and assistants for such tests and shall remove
or repair any defective labor or material when so ordered by the Superintendent.
The plumber or contractor shall, on completion of the work, file in
the office of the Superintendent, on blanks furnished for that purpose by
the town, a complete and correct statement of the work done by him under the
permission.
No person or persons, firm or corporation shall injure, break or remove
any portion of any manhole, lamp hole, flush tank, flushing manhole, ejector
chamber or any part of the sewer system.
Before any old house lateral shall be connected to the sewer system,
the owner of said house lateral shall prove to the satisfaction of the Superintendent
and of the Board of Health that it is clean and conforms in every respect
to the requirements of this Article and the rules and regulations of the Board
of Health.
It shall be unlawful for a firm, person or corporation to:
A.
Cause, allow or permit the discharge of sewage from any
house or building in the Town of Dover into or upon any road, highway, public
pond, stream, watercourse, ditch, surface or subsurface groundwater drain
or stormwater drain.
B.
Discharge or cause, permit or allow to be discharged
into any public sewer, directly or indirectly, any groundwater, surface water
or water from yards, areas, courts or roofs.
C.
Discharge or cause, permit or allow to be discharged
into any public sewer, directly or indirectly, any overflow or drainage from
man pits, cesspools or other receptacles storing or to store organic wastes.
D.
Connect or cause, permit or allow to be connected to
any public sewer, directly or indirectly, any cesspool, privy vault, cellar
or rainwater leader or any other thing excepting only the house plumbing system.
E.
Connect or cause, permit or allow to be connected to
any public sewer, directly or indirectly, any steam exhaust, boiler, blow
sediment drips or any pipes carrying or causing to carry hot water, acid dyes,
germicides, brewing trash, gasoline, naphtha, benzine, oil trade wastes, factory
wastes or garage wastes or any other substance detrimental to the sewer or
to the operation of the sewerage system or sewage disposal works.
F.
Throw or deposit or to cause, permit or allow to be thrown
or deposited in any sewer openings, sinks, water closets, fixture vessels,
receptacles, inlet or opening connecting directly or indirectly to any public
sewer any garbage, offal, dead animals, vegetable parings, ashes, cinders,
rags, matches or anything liable to injure the sewers or to interfere with
their nominal operation or any other matter or thing whatsoever, except feces,
urine, necessary toilet paper (which shall be tissue paper) and liquid house
or mill slops; or to allow or permit any house sewer connected to the public
sewer to be likewise connected to any privy vaults or cesspool or underground
drain or with any chemical conveying water or filth, except such soil pipes
and other plumbing work as shall have been duly inspected and approved, as
in and by this Article or the Board of Health rules and regulations provided.
G.
Allow any inflow or infiltration from whatever source
into any sanitary sewer line from the curbline into and including the piping
system in the house or building.
[Added 5-24-1988 by Ord. No. 11-1988]
When any stoppage shall occur in any house connection, an application
may be made to the Superintendent to have the same remedied; the party so
applying shall deposit $5 to be used toward paying the expense of said work.
If the labor and material used in the work shall amount to less than $5, the
cost of the work shall be deducted from the deposit and the balance returned
to the party who made the deposit, but if the labor and material used in the
work exceeds the deposit, then the party who made the deposit shall pay to
the town, through the Superintendent, any deficiency that exists between the
deposit and the cost of the work.
In all cases where owners desire to discharge any surface water or drainage
other than sewage into any stormwater drain heretofore or hereafter to be
built by the town, they will be allowed to do so on obtaining the required
permits, but so much of the drain as lies between the street line and the
main stormwater drain shall be built under the supervision and in accordance
with the direction of the Superintendent.
[Amended 3-26-1973; 12-27-1983
by Ord. No. 35-1983; 11-26-1991 by Ord.
No. 34-1991]
Any person residing outside of the corporate limits of Dover and who
now or may hereafter be supplied with water by the Town of Dover, desiring
to connect with the town sewers for sewerage service, may (at his own expense)
connect with the sewer system in the manner prescribed and subject to all
the requirements, rules, regulations and conditions contained in this Article
and in addition upon the following further conditions and requirements:
A.
An initial payment shall be made by the applicant to
the town as follows:
(1)
Five hundred dollars for each one-family house and for
each family dwelling unit of a two-family house.
(2)
Two hundred fifty dollars for each and every one-bedroom
apartment unit contained in an entire apartment house to be connected (in
the case of an efficiency apartment where no bedroom might be delineated,
such apartment shall be considered to be a one-bedroom apartment), plus $150
per bedroom in excess of one bedroom for each and every apartment unit containing
more than one bedroom contained in an entire apartment house to be connected.
B.
The applicant or his successors in interest shall pay
the Town of Dover annually on or before the first day of April of each year
a service charge of $50 for a one-family house and $50 for each family dwelling
unit of a two-family house, $40 for a two-bedroom apartment and $30 for a
one-bedroom apartment. A three-bedroom apartment is hereby determined to be
the equivalent of a single-family home. The charge set forth herein shall
be deemed liens on the property serviced until the same are paid.
C.
The sewer connection line shall become the property of
the Town of Dover.
D.
The applicant shall procure such consent for the connection
as may be necessary from the Town of Dover, the municipality in which the
applicant resides, consent from the Rockaway Valley Regional Sewerage Authority
and the Superior Court of New Jersey during the duration of the court-imposed
building ban.
E.
Every structure containing no more than two families
shall be considered one unit. Any structure containing more than two families
shall be considered a separate unit for each family over two families in number.
F.
In commercial or industrial structures, each five persons
employed or using said premises shall be considered a unit.
[Amended 3-25-1986 by Ord. No. 7-1986[1]]
Any person, firm or corporation violating this Article shall, upon conviction,
be subject to one or more of the following: a fine not exceeding $1,000, a
term of imprisonment not exceeding 90 days or a period of community service
not exceeding 90 days. Each violation of this Article shall be deemed to be
a separate and distinct offense. Said fine and penalty shall be in addition
to and not in lieu of any other remedy or penalty provided by law.
[Added 3-25-1986 by Ord. No. 7-1986;
amended 12-13-1988 by Ord. No. 43-1988]
A.
A new sewer charge for the Dover General Hospital Medical
Center will be imposed starting with the year 1986 and will be calculated
as follows:
(1)
Certified gallonage from the Dover Water Commissioners
for the prior years' water use by Dover General Hospital.
(2)
Divide Subsection A(1) by the number of gallons of water used by all water users in the Town of Dover as certified by the Dover Water Commission for the prior year.
B.
The payment shall be made in equal quarterly payments
on February 15, May 15, August 15, and November 15 of each year.
C.
The purpose of this section is to obtain a fair share
payment from Dover General Hospital Medical Center which currently is the
largest water user in the Town of Dover, but which pays no part of the sewer
transmission charges inasmuch as such charges are paid through ad valorem
taxes for which Dover General Hospital Medical Center is exempt.
[Added 5-24-1988 by Ord. No. 11-1988]
A.
The commission of any prohibited act as set forth in § 311-13 of this Article is hereby declared to be a nuisance. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the Town of Dover by resolution may abate such nuisance by correcting a defect or making repairs, reconstructing or constructing the sanitary sewer connections or appurtenances thereto in order to comply with the provisions of § 311-13 of this Article. Such corrections shall be at the cost of the owner or lessor, and the town may expend municipal funds for such purpose and charge the same against the premises. The amount thereof as may be required to accomplish this task shall be a lien against the premises and collectible as provided in N.J.S.A. 40:48-1 et seq. In addition, the municipality shall be entitled to costs of court and reasonable attorney's fees in collecting the amount expended by it to abate any nuisance as defined hereunder.
B.
The municipality must first give notice to the property
owner or lessor to perform the work required to abate the nuisance. If within
30 days after receipt of notice the nuisance has not been abated, the municipality
may proceed to abate the nuisance at the expense of the owner or lessor.
[Added 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 22-1992;
amended 1-26-1993 by Ord. No. 1-1993]
A.
There is hereby established a sewer user charge effective
January 1, 1993, for the use, operation, maintenance and replacement of the
sanitary sewer system of the town and for collecting, treating and disposing
of sewage to be imposed upon the owner of real property within the town limits
served thereby at the rates hereinafter set forth.
B.
The user charge for discharging sewage into the sanitary
sewer system and subsequently into the Rockaway Valley Regional Sewerage Authority
(RVRSA) sewer system shall consist of two parts:
(1)
First, all cost and expenses, including salaries associated
with the town sewer system shall be determined. Such amount shall be increased
by an uncollectible factor to be determined annually. The total of these two
figures shall be divided by the estimated consumption and multiplied by 100
to obtain a cost per 100 cubic feet.
[Amended 2-24-1998 by Ord. No. 5-1998]
(2)
Second, a service charge based upon water consumption
will be charged to pay for the actual cost for treatment by RVRSA and will
be calculated as follows:
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STEP 1: Establish cost to RVRSA for upcoming year. As per RVRSA letter
dated October 23, 1992, the cost for sewage treatment for 1993 will be $780,971.
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STEP 2: Estimate water billing for upcoming year. For 1993, that is
projected to be 60,160,420 cubic feet.
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STEP 3: Determine cost per cubic foot to be charged by RVRSA. Calculation
for 1993 cost. (Must be determined each year.)
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$780,971. cost to RVRSA
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60,160,420 cubic feet =
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$0.0130 per cubic foot or $1.30 per 100 cubic feet
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C.
The sewer user fee will be calculated each year to reflect
the actual cost to RVRSA, the estimated water usage and the cost for operation
of the Sewer Department. Required action by the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen
will be completed prior to the end of each calendar year.
D.
All special sewer agreements now in existence with the
Town of Dover are hereby rescinded.
E.
Payment of user charges.
(1)
Sanitary sewer use fees shall be billed concurrent and
in conjunction with the water bill and shall be due and payable immediately.
If any bill or part thereof rendered for sewer usage is not paid within 20
days, the bill or unpaid part shall be considered delinquent and subject to
interest at the prevailing rate fixed for interest on delinquent real estate
taxes from the due date until the bill is paid in full.
[Amended 5-23-1993 by Ord. No. 17-1993]
(2)
Whenever sewer service commences after the first day
of any quarterly period, sanitary sewer user fees for the first quarterly
period shall be prorated equitably.
(3)
Every owner of improved property which is connected to
the sanitary sewer system shall provide the town with a correct and current
mailing address. Failure of any owner to receive quarterly bills for sewer
use shall not be considered an excuse for nonpayment, nor shall this failure
result in an extension of the period of time during which the bill is payable.
(4)
Unpaid claims; liens. Unpaid charges for connection with
and use of the sanitary sewer system shall be liens upon the premises connected
until paid. The town shall have the same remedies for the collection therefor
with interest, costs and penalties as it has by law for collection of taxes
upon real estate.
F.
Flows not directly attributable to users. The user fees
shall provide for flow not directly attributable to users (i.e., infiltration/inflow)
and shall be distributed among all users of the sewer system in accordance
with the formula set forth herein.
G.
The sewer user fee is applicable to all owners of real
property, inclusive of both taxable and tax-exempt properties.
H.
Wastes not discharged into system. Whenever a property
upon which a sewer use charge is imposed uses water that is not discharged
into the sanitary sewer system, upon approval by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen,
the quantity of water used and not discharged into the system shall be excluded
in determining the sewage service charge for the property. The quantity of
water used and not discharged into the system shall be measured by a device
or meter approved by the town and installed without cost to the town, or by
other means approved by the town. The sewer user fee based upon service shall
be computed at the rates provided for, less the quantity of water not discharged
into the system.
I.
Duly authorized employees or agents of the town bearing
proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter upon all
properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling
and testing to assure proper use of the sewer system.
