[Adopted 12-27-1976 by Ord. No. 842]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Director of the Department of Public Works of the Township
of Moorestown or his authorized representative.[1]
The liquid wastes from industrial processes, as distinct
from domestic or sanitary waste.
A person whose industrial waste output:
Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average
workday;
Has a flow greater than 5% of the flow carried
by the municipal system receiving the waste;
Has in it a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts
as defined in standards issued under Section 307 (a) of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972; or
Has significant impact, either singly or in
combination with other contributing industries, on the treatment works
or the quality of its effluent.
Any person who has been issued a permit for discharge of
industrial waste.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation,
group or owner.
The Township of Moorestown in the County of Burlington, State
of New Jersey.
A.
Application.
(1)
Any person desiring to deposit or discharge or who
is now discharging any industrial waste into the sewage collection
system of the Township shall make application to the Director for
a permit to discharge said industrial waste. Such application shall
be in a form prescribed by the Director and shall include the following:
(a)
The number of persons employed.
(b)
The period of plant operation.
(c)
Water consumption.
(d)
A description of the processes using water.
(e)
A list of chemicals used.
(f)
The source, volume and rate of wastewater discharged.
(g)
An analysis of composite samples of wastewater
or anticipated characteristics of sewage and wastes to be discharged.
(h)
An application submitted by a corporation must
be signed by the principal executive officer of the corporation or
by an official of the rank of corporate vice president or above who
reports directly to such principal executive officer to make such
applications on behalf of the corporation. In the case of a partnership
or a sole proprietorship, the application must be signed by a general
partner of the proprietor.
(i)
Where an application involves a governmental
discharge, the person signing on behalf of a municipal, county or
intrastate regional governmental unit, or if the applicant is a state
or multistate agency, the application must be signed by the governmental
unit's or agency's principal executive officer or an officer who reports
directly to him and is authorized to make applications on behalf of
the governmental unit or agency. Applications submitted by an agency
of the United States should be signed by an official who is authorized
to evaluate environmental factors on an agency-wide basis.
(k)
Any additional information required by the Township.
(2)
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, all
persons presently discharging industrial waste into the Township's
sewage collection system shall have six months from the effective
date of this article to comply with the provisions of this article.
B.
Issuing of permit.
(1)
If all requirements of this article have been met,
the Director shall issue a permit for the discharge into the Township
sewerage system of the waste described in the application submitted
for said permit.
(2)
Permits shall be issued for a specified time period
not to exceed five years and renewed upon reapplication of the permittee
at least 60 days prior to the expiration of said permit.
C.
Revocation of permits and disconnection:
(1)
If the discharge of industrial waste into the Township
sewage collection system has been altered, reconstituted or in any
way changed from that which was discharged into the Township sewage
collection system at the time the Township permit was issued so that
it violates any provision of this article or otherwise violates any
provision of this article, and the Director shall have notified the
permittee, in writing, of such violation, and if the permittee fails
to comply with the permit conditions or does not cease to discharge
into the Township system within 24 hours, the permittee's permit shall
be revoked, and the Township may disconnect or plug the connection
whereby the permittee's industrial waste enters the Township sewage
collection system, and service shall be restored only at the permittee's
expense and only when said permit has been reissued by the Director.
(2)
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in
the event that the permittee shall discharge or permit the discharge
into the Township sewage collection system of any substance which
may create a present and immediate hazard to the public health, safety
or welfare or to the sewage collection system of the Township, the
Director may immediately disconnect or plug the connection whereby
said substance is entering the sewage collection system.
(3)
In the event that a connection to the Township sewage
collection system serves users other than a permittee, the permittee
shall provide a means whereby the permittee's sewer service can be
disconnected or plugged without interfering with service to other
users or shall obtain the consent, on a form supplied by the Township,
of said other users and the owner of the premises to the issuance
of a permit, the violation of the terms of which may result in a discontinuance
of said other users' sewage collection service.
A.
Industrial waste may be discharged into the Township sewage collection system only after a permit has been issued pursuant to § 175-24 of this article.
B.
No waste shall be permitted to be discharged into
the Township sewerage system which contains either suspended solids,
biochemical oxygen demand or chemical oxygen demand greater than normal
domestic sewage. The effluent limitation for these parameters is:
C.
Waste containing unduly high concentrations of substances or characteristics which will interfere with the normal operation of the sewage treatment plant of the Township is prohibited, and the discharge of the same into the sewage collection system shall be grounds for revocation of the permit described in § 175-24 of this article.
(1)
The concentration of these substances shall be determined
by analysis of the inflow into the Township sanitary sewage system
and shall not exceed the following requirements:
|
Substance
|
Limit
(mg/l)
|
|---|---|
|
Total solids
|
5,000
|
|
Phenols
|
0.005
|
|
Cyanide as CN
|
2.0
|
|
Chromium as Cr
|
3.0
|
|
Copper as Cu
|
1.0
|
|
Iron as Fe
|
5.0
|
|
Nickel as Ni
|
3.0
|
|
Zinc as Zn
|
2.0
|
|
Boron as B
|
1.0
|
|
Lead as Pb
|
0.1
|
|
Ether-soluble matter
|
10.0
|
|
Arsenic as As
|
4.0
|
|
Aluminum sulphate
|
10.0
|
|
Barium
|
2.0
|
|
Cadmium
|
0.02
|
|
Mercury
|
0.01
|
|
Solenium
|
0.02
|
|
Chromium (hexavalent)
|
0.10
|
(2)
Surfac-eactive agents of synthetic detergents shall
be of an approved type, with a high degree of biodegradability.
(3)
Any waste having a pH lower than 5.5 or higher than
9.5.
(4)
The temperature shall not exceed 150° F.
D.
Testing. Any analysis to determine the sewage strength as required under this article shall be performed by a certified laboratory approved by the Director of Public Works and/or the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and shall be performed at the expense of the discharger. All such tests shall be performed in compliance with the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, current edition. In the case of a major contributing industry, in addition to the analysis required under § 175-24A(1)(g) hereof, analyses (based on samples collected within 30 days of the date of submission) shall be submitted on a semiannual basis each May 31 and November 30. Said semiannual analyses shall be for those parameters required by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency or the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The Township may require additional tests to determine if the permittee is complying with the limitations of the permit issued by the Township. The Township reserves the right to perform additional testing at its own expense when the Township deems it necessary.
The discharge of the following waste into the sewage collection system of the Township is prohibited and shall be grounds for revocation of the permit and/or disconnection from the Township sewage collection system pursuant to § 175-24:
A.
Gasoline, benzine, naphtha, fuel oil or mineral oil
or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas.
B.
Garbage, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings,
metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, manure, hair and
fleshings, entrails, paint residues, cannery waste, bulk solids, paper
mill wastes or any other solid or viscous substances capable of causing
obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper
operation of the sewerage system.
C.
Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance which,
either singly or by interaction with other wastes, is capable of creating
a hazard or menace to life or property or of preventing entry into
the sewers for their maintenance and repair.
D.
Any radioactive isotopes.
E.
Any wastes containing viable pathogenic bacteria other
than those normal to domestic sewage.
F.
Concentrated dye wastes, spent tanning solutions or
other wastes which are highly colored and which color cannot be removed
by the Township's sewage treatment plant.
G.
Any waste containing grease or oil that will solidify
or become viscous at temperatures between 32° F. and 150°
F.
H.
Surface or rain water, cooling water and water from
roof or cellar drains, groundwater or unpolluted industrial or unpolluted
commercial process water.
I.
Any waste which, in the opinion of the Township, is
harmful to any portion of the sewerage system or to its operating
personnel or the general public.
J.
Any water or waste which, in the opinion of the Director,
contains any toxic substances in quantity sufficient to constitute
a hazard to humans or animals or to interfere with the biochemical
process of the sewage treatment plant whereby the discharge from the
same will exceed state, federal or other legal requirements for the
receiving stream.
K.
Any waste as defined in 40 CFR 128.131 of the Federal
Register.
Where the average daily flow of any individual
permittee is greater than 1% of the average daily flow of the entire
sanitary system of the Township (except those flows permitted by written
agreements existing prior to the effective date of this article),
as a condition to the granting of a permit, holding facilities may
be required to be constructed on the premises of the permittee by
and at the expense of the permittee, which shall control the quantity
and rates of discharge so that the rate will be constant over a twenty-four-hour
period for each day of the week.
A.
Any person who shall be permitted to discharge industrial wastes into the sanitary sewer system shall construct and thereafter shall properly maintain, at his own expense, a suitable control manhole to facilitate observation, measurement and sampling when, in the opinion of the Director, such manhole is necessary to properly observe, measure and sample the output of that particular permittee. Any such control manhole shall be constructed at an accessible, safe, suitable and satisfactory location in accordance with plans approved by the Director prior to commencement of construction. Failure to install such a manhole may result in the rejection of or revocation of the permit pursuant to § 175-24 of this article.
B.
Whenever necessary in order to comply with local,
county, regional, state and/or federal regulations, including Section
307 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972,
a permittee shall provide, at its expense, such facilities for pretreatment
and handling of industrial waste as are necessary to remove or neutralize
objectionable substances before said waste is discharged into the
sewage collection system of the Township.
C.
Whenever facilities for treatment of industrial wastes
are provided by the permittee before discharge into the Township's
sewage collection system, such facilities shall be maintained continuously,
at the expense of the permittee, in satisfactory operating condition;
and Township, state and federal representatives shall have access
to such treatment facilities and records regarding the same at reasonable
times for the purpose of inspecting and testing.
D.
The Director, as a condition of granting a permit
or renewal of the same, may require the permittee to install, operate
and maintain automatic monitoring and recording equipment for such
parameters as flow, pH and temperature.
All major contributing industries and other
industries deemed necessary by the Director shall file periodic and
other reports with the Director as required under the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. This information will be
a requirement for issuance and continuation of any permit issued by
the Director for connection with the Township sanitary sewer system.
The permit issued under this article is issued
to a specific user for a specific operation. The permit shall not
be assigned, transferred or sold to a new owner, new user, different
premises or a new or changed operation.
A.
Notification of discharge. Permittees shall notify
the Director immediately upon accidentally discharging waste in violation
of this article and/or the permit issued for such discharge to enable
counter-measures to be taken by the Township to minimize damage to
the Township sewage treatment facilities, treatment processes and
the receiving waters. This notification shall be followed within 15
days of the date of the occurrence by a detailed written statement
describing the causes of the accidental discharge and the measures
taken to prevent future occurrences.
B.
Notice to employee. In order that employees of the
users be informed of the Township requirements, users shall make available
to their employees copies of this article, together with such other
wastewater information and notices which may be furnished by the Township
from time to time, directed to more effective water pollution control.
A notice shall be furnished and permanently posted on the permittee's
bulletin board advising employees whom to call in case of an accidental
discharge in violation of this article and/or the permit issued hereunder.
C.
Submission of time schedules. When the Township finds
that a discharge of wastewater has taken place in violation of prohibitions
or limitations prescribed by this article and/or the permit issued
hereunder, the Township may require the permittee to submit for approval,
with such modifications as it deems necessary, a detailed time schedule
of specific actions which the permittee shall take in order to prevent
or correct a violation of requirements.
The disposal into the sewer system of any pollutant
by any person is unlawful except in compliance with federal standards
promulgated pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments
(FWPCAA) of 1972 and any more stringent state and local standards.
Applicants shall pay the following fees:
A.
Major contributing industries: an application fee
in the amount of $500 plus a fee in the amount of $200 for each year
of the permit.
B.
All others: an application fee of $200.
C.
All applicants shall reimburse the Township for any
reasonable fees paid by the Township for professional review of applications
by the Township Engineer or Attorney; provided, however, that said
review fees shall not exceed $1,500 except in unusual situations,
in which case the applicant shall be notified and given the opportunity
to discuss the additional fees with the Township before the Township
shall incur the same. If said notice is not given, the applicant shall
not be liable for said additional fees.
D.
The above fees shall be paid to the Township upon
receipt of the permit.
