Definitions. Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall
be as follows:
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in milligrams per liter,
utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard
laboratory procedure for five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory
procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods.
BUILDING SEWER
That portion of the overall sewage collection system located
between the sewage drainage system of any structure and the service
lateral of a collection sewer.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The chlorine, in milligrams per liter, which must be added
to sewage to produce chlorine residual of five-tenths milligrams per
liter after a contact period of 60 minutes, in accordance with procedures
set forth in Standard Methods.
COLLECTION SEWER
The Township's collection sanitary sewers located under highways,
roads, streets and rights-of-way, or collection sanitary sewers located
in a development approved pursuant to an ordinance of this Township
adopted under the Municipal Land Use Law, the plans and specifications for which have been finally
approved by the approving authority under such ordinance, and approved
by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and which
have been properly constructed, made available for use and connected
to the Township's collection sanitary sewers pursuant to such approval,
with branch service laterals that collect and convey sanitary sewage
or industrial wastes or a combination of both and into which stormwater,
surface water and groundwater or unpolluted industrial wastes or liquids
are not intentionally admitted.
[Amended 7-5-1978]
CONNECTION UNIT
Each individual building or house, whether constructed as a detached unit or as one of a pair or row which is designated or adaptable to separate ownership for use as a family dwelling unit or for commercial or industrial purposes. A school, factory, apartment house, townhouse, office building or other multiple unit structure or complex or development of such structures, whose individual apartments or units are connected to a common internal sewage system, shall be considered as one "connection unit," but where only a section or segment of an overall development whose individual apartments or units are connected to a common internal sewage system (which system may be confined to such section or segment or may be designed to serve other sections or segments of the development or the overall development) has received subdivision, site plan or conditional use approval required under Chapter
100, Part
2, Development Regulations, of the Code of the Township of Holland and as a requirement or condition of such approval is to have the approved development connected to and use the Township's sanitary sewer system, then such approved section or segment shall be considered a "connection unit."
[Amended 6-6-1984]
FORCE MAIN
That pipe or conduit operating under pressure and constituting
a part of the sewer system.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food and from handling, storage and sale of food products and produce.
GROUND GARBAGE
The residue from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that has been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely in suspension under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in public sewers with no particle greater than 1/2 inch
in any dimension.
ILLICIT CONNECTION
Any physical or nonphysical connection to the Township sewer
system other than by permit issued by the Township in accordance with
its rules and regulations.
[Added 5-5-2015 by Ord.
No. 2015-3]
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property within the sewered area upon which there is
erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation,
occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure
sanitary sewage or industrial wastes, or both, shall be or may be
discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted
to flow or escaping in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade or business process or in the course of the development, recovery
or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
MG/L
Milligrams per liter.
NORMAL SEWAGE
Sewage with a maximum:
(1)
Five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) of
250 mg/l.
(2)
Suspended solids content of 250 mg/l.
(3)
Chlorine demand of five mg/l.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions, gram moles per liter of solution, and indicates
the degrees of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from an
improved property.
SERVICE LATERAL
That part of the sewer system from the sewer main to the
curbline or to a point one foot beyond and outside the edge of the
paved roadway if there is no curbline.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
The plant and facilities operated by the Borough of Milford
for the treatment of sewage.
SEWERAGE
The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
SEWERED AREA
That portion of the Township in which there shall be constructed
a sewer system of the Township in accordance with plans approved by
the Township and as from time to time changed and extended.
SEWER MAIN
Any pipe or conduit constituting part of the Township sewer
system, exclusive of service laterals, building sewers and force main,
used or usable to collect and convey sewage and to which groundwater,
surface water and stormwater is not intentionally admitted.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
waste, situated in the sewered area and owned or operated, or both,
by or for the Township.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds, for any period of longer duration than 15 minutes, more than
five times its average hourly concentration of flow.
STANDARD METHODS
The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage and Industrial Wastes, published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federation.
STORM SEWER
A sewer that carries stormwater, surface water and groundwater
drainage but excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes.
STREET
Includes any street, highway, road, lane or alley.
SURCHARGE
A charge, in addition to the service charge rental, which
is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than
the concentration values established as representative of normal sewage.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtration. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found
in the latest edition of Standard Methods.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Holland, in the County of Hunterdon, New
Jersey.
TOWNSHIP'S AUTHORIZED AGENT
A person employed by the Township who is specifically authorized
to inspect the construction of building sewers and the connection
of building sewers to collection sewers.
TOWNSHIP'S ENGINEER
The engineer engaged by the Township to advise the Township
on engineering matters.
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
Any substance (including copper, cyanide and chromium compounds)
in such form or concentration to be toxic or to inhibit the activity
of humans, animals or organisms used in biological sewage treatment.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR LIQUIDS
Any water or liquid containing none of the following:
(1)
Emulsified grease or oil.
(2)
Substances that may impart taste, odor or color.
(3)
Odorous or otherwise obnoxious gases.
(4)
Total dissolved solids in excess of 1,000 mg/l.
(5)
Suspended solids in excess of five mg/l.
(6)
A biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) in excess
of five mg/l.
(7)
A pH value below 6.0 or greater than 9.0.