Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD [denotes "biochemical oxygen demand (five-day)"]
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure contained in
standard methods in five days at 20° C., expressed in terms of
weight and concentration in milligrams per liter.
BOROUGH
The Borough of North Haledon in the County of Passaic.
BUILDING SEWER
The piping of a household plumbing system which receives
the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the
walls of the building and conveys it to the property line or easement
line.
COD (denotes "chemical oxygen demand")
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the oxidation of organic
and oxidizable inorganic matter under standard laboratory procedures
in three hours at 600° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING
Any building not used as a residential dwelling house and
not used for industry.
CURBLINE
The established curbline, or, if no curbline has been established,
then the line designated by the Engineer.
DEPARTMENT
The Sewer Department of the Borough of North Haledon or a
duly appointed representative thereof.
ENGINEER
The Borough Engineer of the Borough of North Haledon or his/her
authorized deputy, inspector, agent or representative.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
[Amended 5-9-1990 by Ord. No. 7-1990]
GARBAGE
Solid waste from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of food.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer or the person duly licensed by the State
of New Jersey and performing the duties of Health Officer appointed
by the Board of Health of the Borough of North Haledon.
INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY
A charge to industrial users based on their use of PVSC facilities
to repay the capital cost outlay of the federal share given PVSC under
the provisions of applicable federal law allocable to the treatment
of the wastes from the industrial users.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user which discharges
more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of domestic sanitary
wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual under Division A, B, D, E or I or which discharges toxic pollutants
into the PVSC treatment works.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes resulting from the processes employed in
industrial manufacturing, trade or business establishments or from
the development, recovery, detoxification or processing of natural
resources or other wastes as distinct from domestic sanitary wastes.
LARGE COMMERCIAL USER
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user, except an industrial
or tax-exempt user, which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000
gallons per day of domestic sanitary waste.
MAJOR INDUSTRY
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 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.
NATURAL OUTLET
An outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water
or groundwater, including the Passaic River or any of its tributaries.
[Amended 5-9-1990 by Ord. No. 7-1990]
NJDEP
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, association,
society, corporation or group or society, and includes the State of
New Jersey and agencies, districts, commissioners and political subdivisions
created by or pursuant to state law.
pH
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.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
The Plumbing Inspector duly appointed by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of North Haledon.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction in the amount or elimination of pollutants
or the alteration of the natural pollutant properties in industrial
wastes prior to the discharge of such wastes into the PVSC treatment
works, whether such reduction, elimination or alteration is obtained
by physical, chemical or biological processes, process change or other
means.
PRIVATE SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Any sanitary sewerage system not a public sewerage system,
whether with or without a treatment plant.
PUBLIC SEWER
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency, public
utility or the municipality.
PVSC
The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface
waters that are not admitted intentionally.
[Amended 5-9-1990 by Ord. No. 7-1990]
SANITARY WASTE
Waste derived principally from dwellings, office buildings
and sanitary conveniences; when segregated from industrial wastes,
may come from industrial plants or commercial enterprises.
[Amended 5-9-1990 by Ord. No. 7-1990]
SERVICE CONNECTION
The extension of the building sewer from the street property
line or easement line to the street sewer.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
[Amended 5-9-1990 by Ord. No. 7-1990]
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
[Amended 5-9-1990 by Ord. No. 7-1990]
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
All of the facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and
disposing of sewage.
SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
street sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any diameter.
SLUDGE
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or 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.
SLUG
The discharge of industrial waste or any constituents thereof
to the PVSC treatment works in such quantity that the average hourly
discharge over any period of a two-hour duration is more than twice
the daily average hourly discharge of industrial wastes or constituents
thereof.
STRENGTH OF WASTE
A measurement of suspended solids and/or biochemical oxygen
demand and/or chemical oxygen demand and/or any other parameter determined
by PVSC as a fair indicator of the relative use, other than volumetric,
of PVSC facilities by industrial wastes.
[Amended 5-9-1990 Ord. No. 7-1990]
SUPERINTENDENT
Superintendent of the Sewer Department of the Borough or
his/her authorized deputy, inspector, agent or representative.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids and
that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to
as "nonfilterable residue."
UNIT
Any fixed quantity, amount, distance or measure used as a
standard.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water 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 discharging to the
sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USEPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
USER CHARGE
A charge levied on users of the PVSC treatment works, or
that portion of the ad valorem taxes paid by a user, for the user's
proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance, including
replacement.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquids and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.