No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface
drainage, uncontaminated cooling water, or unpolluted industrial process
waters to any sanitary sewer.
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage
shall be discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated
as storm sewers, or to a natural outlet approved by the Borough Engineer.
Industrial cooling water or unpolluted process waters may be discharged,
on approval of the Borough Engineer, to a storm sewer or natural outlet.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
A. Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other
flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
B. Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous
solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or
by interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any
sewage treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals,
create a public nuisance.
C. Any waters or wastes having a corrosive property capable
of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment, and personnel
of the sewage works.
D. Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other
interference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as,
but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal,
glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, underground garbage, whole
blood, paunch manure, hair and fleshings entrails; and paper dishes,
cups, milk containers, etc., either whole or ground garbage grinders.
[Amended 12-11-1990 by Ord. No. 90-35]
A. If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are proposed to be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated in §
134-5 of this chapter, and which in the judgment of the Authority may have a deleterious effect upon the sewage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the Authority may:
(2) Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for
discharge to the public sewers.
(3) Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge.
B. If the Authority permits the pretreatment or equalization
of waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment
shall be subject to the review and approval of the Authority, and
subject to the requirements of all applicable codes, ordinances, and
laws.
Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing
facilities are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained
continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner
at his expense.
[Amended 9-11-1990 by Ord. No. 90-20]
A. Industrial user defined. "Industrial user" means any
nonresidential user which discharges more than the equivalent of 100,000
gallons per day of domestic sanitary wastes or which is identified
in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual under Divisions A,
B, D, E or I and discharges or has the potential to discharge toxic
pollutants into the Authority Treatment Works, or which operates a
process to which a federal categorical pretreatment standard is applicable.
B. Monitoring equipment required. When required by the
Authority or by the Borough of Garwood, each industrial user and the
owner of any property used or occupied by any industrial user shall
install, at its own expense, suitable measuring and monitoring equipment
to facilitate the accurate observation, measurement and sampling of
industrial wastes. Such equipment may include, but not be limited
to an open channel flow metering station. Such equipment shall be
kept safe, secure from unauthorized entry or tampering and accessible
to the Authority and Borough of Garwood personnel at all times, and
shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Authority
or by the Borough of Garwood, whichever agent has required the installation
of such equipment. Measuring and monitoring equipment may include,
but is not limited to pH monitoring equipment, lower explosion limit
detection instrumentation, automatic sampling devices and other appropriate
devices. The need for measuring, sampling and/or monitoring equipment
shall be determined by the Authority or by the Borough Engineer. All
such equipment shall be installed and maintained in accordance with
Rules and Regulation Concerning Discharges to the Rahway Valley Sewerage
Authority, adopted June 16, 1983, and amended from time to time.
All measurements, tests, and analyses of the
characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in
this article shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition
of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published
by the American Public Health Association, and shall be determined
at the control manhole provided, or upon suitable samples taken at
said control manhole. In the event that no special manhole has been
required, the control manhole shall be considered to be the nearest
downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at which the building
sewer is connected.