The Borough of Paulsboro hereby creates a separate
class of users titled "discharges from contaminated groundwater sites."
Requests for service from individuals, partnerships
or corporations proposing to discharge effluent from a contaminated
groundwater site shall be evaluated for provision of service and subject
to the following conditions:
A. Each request from a groundwater decontamination site
will be considered and evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Criteria
for consideration and evaluation shall include, but not be limited
to, the following:
(1) The advice and consent of the local governmental entity
owning and operating a local sewage collection system when the proposed
discharge from a groundwater decontamination site will enter the Borough
of Paulsboro conveyance and treatment system after first being collected
by a local sewage collection system.
(2) The type, degree and extent of the contamination at
the specific site.
(3) The specific remedial technology proposed to be used
to cleanse the contaminated groundwater.
(4) Conformance to applicable federal, state and local
standards.
(5) Possible and potential adverse effects the discharge
may have on the Borough of Paulsboro personnel, Borough of Paulsboro
facilities, Borough of Paulsboro operational procedures and standards
and conditions imposed by the several and various federal and/or state
permits governing Borough of Paulsboro facilities.
(6) The length of time estimated to undertake and complete
the groundwater decontamination.
(7) The availability of present and future capacity within
the entire Borough of Paulsboro conveyance and treatment system.
(8) The range of other disposal options open to each specific
groundwater site.
B. Each discharger determined to be this class of user
and its discharge accepted into the Borough of Paulsboro will be subject
to the following business conditions:
(1) Each discharger shall have all terms and conditions
incorporated and embodied in a service agreement duly executed by
the discharger and the Authority.
(2) The service charge for this class of user shall be
at a rate three times the basic service charge established annually
by the Borough of Paulsboro. The discharger shall also be subject
to any and all surcharges established therein, if applicable.
(3) Each discharger in this class of user accepted by
the Borough of Paulsboro for service shall be subject to payment of
the Authority's prevailing charge under the Borough of Paulsboro's
construction expansion fee program. This charge will be nonrefundable.
Any discharger determined to be of this class
of user and accepted into the Borough of Paulsboro system shall be
subject to severability under certain conditions:
A. Violation of federal, state or local statutes, regulations
or programs.
B. If and when the capacity of the Borough of Paulsboro
conveyance system, treatment plant or a combination thereof is reached
due to demand for new development, the groundwater decontamination
site's service agreement may be severed. Service agreement severance
shall require formal notification by the Borough of Paulsboro. In
no case shall this notification be less than 180 days prior to severance.