The following definitions apply to this article:
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
SEWAGE
Ay wastes, including wastes from humans, households, commercial
establishments, industries and stormwater runoff, that are discharged
to or otherwise enter into the Township's sewage treatment facility.
SIGNIFICANT INDIRECT USER (SIU)
Solely for the purposes of this article, any user, excluding
municipal collection systems, who discharges on any one day wastewater
into the Township's sewage treatment facility where:
A.
The volume of industrial process wastewater
exceeds 25,000 gallons per day;
B.
The amount of BOD, COD or suspended solids in
the industrial process wastewater discharge exceeds the mass equivalent
of 25,000 gallons per day of the domestic waste of the affected Township's
sewage treatment facility;
C.
The volume of industrial process wastewater
in the discharge exceeds 5% or more of the average daily flow of the
Township's sewage treatment facility;
D.
The discharge of industrial process wastewater
contributes, prior to any pretreatment, 5% or more of the daily mass
loading of any of the pollutants listed in Appendix B, Tables II-VI,
of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.1 et seq.;
E.
The user of the Township's sewage treatment
facility is determined to be a hazardous waste facility under N.J.A.C.
7:26-12 and meets the requirements of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-4.2(b)1;
F.
The user is determined to be an industrial waste
management facility under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-4;
G.
The user has been found by the Department to
be in violation of state laws or regulations or local ordinances concerning
environmental issues;
H.
The discharge consists of landfill leachate,
either pure or diluted by groundwater or surface runoff;
I.
The discharge consists of significant quantities
of polluted groundwater which is pumped from the ground in order to
decontaminate an aquifer; or
J.
The Department determines it would be consistent
with the intent of the Pretreatment Act or state Act to require a
permit for the indirect discharger.
SIU
Solely for the purposes of this article, significant indirect
user.
SLUDGE
The solid residue and associated liquid resulting from the
physical, chemical or biological treatment of wastewater.
The requirements of this chapter shall be implemented
for the useful life of the treatments work as determined by the Township
Engineer.
Any person who violates any portion of this
article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not
exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day
during or on which a violation occurs or continues.