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.
A. 
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the following described substances, materials, waters, or wastes, if it appears likely in the opinion of the Authority that such wastes can harm either the sewers, sewage treatment process, or equipment, have an adverse effect on the receiving stream, or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property, or constitute a nuisance. In forming its opinion as to the acceptability of these wastes, the Authority will give consideration to such factors as the quantities of subject wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treatment process, capacity of the sewage treatment plant, degree of treatability of wastes in the sewage treatment plant and other pertinent factors. The substances prohibited are:
(1) 
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150º F. (65º C.).
(2) 
Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease, or oils, whether emulsified or not, in excess of 100 mg/l or containing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32º and 150º F. (0º and 65º C.).
(3) 
Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron pickling wastes, or concentrated plating solutions whether neutralized or not.
(4) 
Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper, zinc, and similar objectionable or toxic substances in excess of limits established by the Authority, or by having a pH outside of maximum and minimum limits established by the Authority; or wastes exerting an excessive chlorine requirement.
(5) 
Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste or odor-producing substances in such concentrations, exceeding limits which may be established by the Authority as necessary, after treatment of the composite sewage, to meet the requirements of the state, federal or other public agencies of jurisdiction for discharge to the receiving waters.
(6) 
Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established by the Authority in compliance with applicable state or federal regulations.
(7) 
Materials which exert or cause:
(a) 
Unusual concentration of inert suspended solids (such as, but not limited to, fullers earth, lime slurries, and lime residues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride and sodium sulfate).
(b) 
Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions).
(c) 
Unusual volume, flow, or concentration of wastes constituting "slugs" as defined herein.
B. 
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed, or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
[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:
(1) 
Reject the wastes.
(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.