[Amended 5-12-2005 by Ord. No. 1934]
Whenever used within this chapter, the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
Any physical or nonphysical connection that discharges domestic
sewage, noncontact cooling water, process wastewater, or other industrial
waste (other than stormwater) to the municipal separate storm sewer
system operated by the Borough of North Arlington, unless the discharge
is authorized under a NJPDES permit other than the Tier A municipal
stormwater general permit. Nonphysical connections may include, but
are not limited to, leaks, flows, or overflows into the municipal
separate storm sewer system.
A charge to industrial users based on their use of PVSC facilities
to repay the capital cost outlay of the federal share given the PVSC
under the provisions of applicable federal law allocable to the treatment
of the wastes from the industrial user.
Any nongovernmental user of PVSC facilities identified in
the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, as amended and
supplemented, under Divisions A, B, D, E or I. A user may be excluded
if it is determined that it introduces primarily segregated sanitary
wastes.
The liquid waste from an industrial process, as distinct
from sanitary waste. All wastes, except stormwaters and sanitary wastes.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or business,
as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
An industrial user of PVSC facilities that has a flow of
50,000 gallons or more per average workday, has in its waste a toxic
pollutant in toxic amounts or is found by the USEPA, NJDEP or PVSC
to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other
contributing industries, in the PVSC treatment works or upon the quality
of the effluent from the PVSC treatment works.
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated
by the Borough of North Arlington or other public body, and is designed
and used for collecting and conveying stormwater.
An outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or
ground water, including the Passaic River or any of its tributaries.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
The national pollution discharge elimination system.
Any individual, firm, company, society, association, corporation
(public or private) or group.
The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter
of solution. Neutral water has a pH value of seven (a hydrogen concentration
of 10-7). Lower pHs are acid; higher pHs
are alkaline.
Treatment given to industrial waste prior to its discharge,
directly or indirectly, to the PVSC facilities, by the industry, in
order to remove illegal and/or undesirable constituents or to reduce
the strength of the waste.
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency, public
utility or the municipality.
The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
A sewer that carries liquids and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with minor quantities of ground-, storm- and surface waters
that are not admitted intentionally.
Waste derived principally from dwellings, office buildings
and sanitary conveniences. When segregated from industrial wastes,
it may come from industrial plants or commercial enterprises.
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentration
of any given constituent or in the quantity of flow exceeds for any
period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the
average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface
water or unpolluted water from any source.
A measurement of suspended solids and/or biochemical oxygen
demand and/or chemical oxygen demand and/or any other parameter determined
by the PVSC as a fair indicator of the relative use, other than volumetric,
of PVSC facilities by industrial wastes.
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of or is in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids and that
was removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as nonfilterable
residue.
Defined by the USEPA in 40 CFR 129 (38 F.R. 24342, 9-7-73)
and any superseding revisions.
Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefited by discharge to the sanitary
sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
A charge to users consisting of two parts, the first part
established by the PVSC based on volume and, where applicable, on
strength and/or flow rate to pay for the use of the PVSC facilities
and the second part established by the municipality to pay for the
use of the local sewer system and to pay for administration of the
billing and collection of the funds.
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present.
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
The PVSC facilities.
Except by the express direction or permission
of the Mayor and Council in each case or as provided otherwise in
this article, no one shall injure, break, remove or meddle with any
or any portion of any manhole, lamp hole, flush tank, catch basin
or other appliance or appurtenances of said sewer system.
[Amended 5-12-2005 by Ord. No. 1934]
A.
The spilling, dumping or disposing of materials other
than stormwater to the municipal separate storm sewer system operated
by the Borough of North Arlington is prohibited. The spilling, dumping
or disposing of materials other than stormwater in such a manner as
to cause the discharge of pollutants to the municipal separate storm
sewer system is also prohibited.
B.
Exceptions:
(1)
Water line flushing and discharges from potable water
sources.
(2)
Uncontaminated groundwater (e.g., infiltration, crawl
space, or basement sump pumps, foundation, or footing drains, rising
groundwater).
(3)
Air conditioner condensation (excluding contact and
noncontact cooling water).
(4)
Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn watering
runoff).
(5)
Flows from springs, riparian habitats, and wetlands,
water reservoir discharges and diverted stream flows.
(6)
Residential car washing water and residential swimming
pool discharges.
(7)
Sidewalk, driveway and street wash water.
(8)
Flows from firefighting activities,
(9)
Flows from rinsing of the following equipment with
clean water:
(a)
Beach maintenance equipment immediately following
their use for their intended purposes; and
(b)
Equipment used in the application of salt and
de-icing materials immediately following salt and de-icing materials
applications. Prior to rinsing with clean water, all residual salt
and de-icing materials must be removed from equipment and vehicles
to the maximum extent practicable. Using dry cleaning methods (e.g.,
shoveling and sweeping). Recovered materials are to be returned to
storage for reuse or properly discarded. Rinsing of equipment, as
noted in the above situation, is limited to exterior, undercarriage,
and exposed parts and does not apply to engines or other enclosed
machinery.
No one shall lay, alter or repair any house
drain or sewer, or do any plumbing work and connect or attempt to
connect all or either of the same, or any part thereof, with said
system of sewers, unless he/she is first regularly licensed according
to the ordinances of this Borough and as hereinafter required and
unless a permit for such connection, as hereinafter required, is first
duly obtained.
[Amended 10-16-1984 by Ord. No. 1307]
The license to make sewer connections shall
be granted only as follows:
A.
The applicant shall file with the Health Officer an
application in writing, duly signed, which shall state the business
style and address of such applicant and whether the applicant is an
individual, a copartnership or a corporation. If the applicant is
a copartnership, the said applicant shall give the full name, address
and residence of each copartner composing the same. Said application
shall further, in all material respects, in form, tenor and substance,
be the same as the form therefor which is annexed hereto and made
a part of this article.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: This form is on file in the
Clerk's office.
B.
Said applicant shall also deliver to the Health Officer,
together with said application, a bond in the penal sum of $500, duly
executed by said applicant and two sufficient sureties, and the tenor
whereof and the condition thereunder to be written shall be as set
forth in the annexed form, which is made a part of this article.[2]
[2]
Editors Note: Bond application forms are available
in the office of the Health Officer of the Borough.
[Amended 10-16-1984 by Ord. No. 1307]
No license to make sewer connections shall be
granted for a longer term than one year, and all licenses shall expire
with the 30th day of April of each year. They shall be of the tenor
set forth in the form therefor annexed hereto, which is made a part
of this article,[1] and shall be issued by the Health Officer, and only when
the foregoing provisions of this article have been in all respects
complied with.
[1]
Editors Note: Copies of license applications
are available in the office of the Health Officer of the Borough.
No one shall open or dig up any street or public
place within the Borough, in order to make connection with the sewer
system, nor shall anyone tap or make a connection with said system,
or any part thereof, without first obtaining the permit therefor hereinafter
mentioned, unless by the express direction of the Mayor and Council.
All connections with the sewer system must be
made carefully and in a workmanlike manner. The pipe must be of iron
or saltglazed vitrified earthenware of good quality, and if possible
impervious. Pipes must all be laid true to grade and as nearly as
possible in a straight line, except at the connection with the sewer
main, where properly curved pipe must be used to ease and change the
proper direction.
All openings in the streets and highways must
be effected, and the excavated material must be disposed and dealt
with, so as not to inconvenience travel, so as to obstruct the free
flow of water along gutters as little as possible and so as not to
interfere with immediate access to water gates and fire hydrants.
The permits to make sewer connections shall
be issued by the Borough Clerk when and only when the following requirements
and conditions have first been complied with.
A.
The owner of the property for which the connection
is desired must apply therefor in writing, stating the name of such
owner or owners, the character and dimensions of the building which
is to be connected, the description of the lot or curtilage whereon
such building is located, the precise location of said building thereon
and the name of the one who is to do the work of making such connections.
B.
Accompanying such application or endorsed upon it
there must be a statement by the local Board of Health, or a proper
officer thereof, that the plumbing in such building is in accordance
with the rules of or is approved by said Board of Health.
C.
Said application and statement must be filed with
the Borough Clerk, to whom also at the same time the amount of the
permit fee required in each case must be paid as provided below.
A separate permit must be obtained for each
separate building for which connection is desired, and for each permit
the fee or rate to be paid shall be as follows: For each separate
and individual connection with the sewer system of whatever frontage,
the sum of $2 during the first year after the completion of the sewer
system by the Borough of North Arlington, as represented by the certificate
of the Engineer, and thereafter the sum of $5 for each separate and
individual connection with the said system.
The tenor and form of applications for permits
and of permits to make sewer connections shall be as set forth in
the annexed forms therefor, which are made part of this article.[1]
[1]
Editors Note: Copies of permit applications
are available in the Clerk's office.
All fees received by the Borough Clerk for permits
shall be reported by him/her to the Mayor and Council and accounted
for and paid over to the Borough Collector.
No permit to make a sewer connection shall be
deemed to authorize anything to be done which is not stated in the
application therefor as to be done.
Anyone licensed to make sewer connections who
shall proceed with any work under a permit therefor obtained by an
application containing any material misrepresentation shall be held
accountable as the Mayor and Council may determine.
No owner or occupant of any building or place
shall allow or permit the exhaust from any steam engine or boiler
to discharge directly into said sewers.
No one shall open any street, highway or other
public place in which sewers are laid in order to lay therein any
pipe for water, gas, steam or other purpose, unless he/she shall give
the Borough Clerk at least 24 hours' notice, in which shall be stated
the character of the work intended to be done and the method that
is to be employed, before opening such street, highway or other public
place. All such work shall be under the supervision and direction
of the Street Committee, which is hereby empowered to direct and control
the method that is employed in doing such work. Any failure to observe
and obey such direction shall constitute a violation of this article.
The several members of the Borough Council,
the Mayor and such inspectors or superintendents of streets or sewers
as may be from time to time appointed, and the Borough Engineer, are
hereby authorized and charged to see that the provisions of this article
are complied with, and to give directions with respect to any matter
or thing likely to result in injury to the system of sewers or to
the proper management and operation thereof. A failure to comply with
any such direction resulting in such injury shall constitute a violation
of this article.
The Mayor and Council, without liability to
answer in any manner therefor, may direct to be stopped and disconnected
any private or house sewer pipe or drain from which anything is discharged
that is likely to injure or obstruct the sewers.
No one, without the special permission and direction of the Mayor and Council, shall discharge or cause or suffer to be discharged into the sewers any refuse or waste other than the waste specified in § 298-25 of this chapter nor any rain- or stormwater, or surface, subsoil or cellar drainage waters, nor the wastewater from any water motor having a supply pipe more than two inches in diameter.
[Amended 10-16-1984 by Ord. No. 1307]
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided in Chapter 1, Article I, General Penalty, in the discretion of the court. The continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.
