The following rates, rules and regulations shall
form part of the contract with all users of the water services of
the City of Vineland Water-Sewer Utility and shall be subscribed to
by all persons applying for water service from said Utility.
The owner or owners of property or person or
persons acting as their agent must sign all applications for water
service or the extension of the distribution system, or such application
will not be valid.
All applications shall be made to the Water-Sewer
Utility, and if granted, the applicant or his duly authorized agent
will sign a contract including his assent to these rules, rates and
regulations, and at the same time, said applicant shall pay all charges
of the Utility up to the commencement of the succeeding terms, including
all the charges of the Utility incidental to the introduction and
extension of the service applied for. The contract shall state the
date, the name of the party, the kind and extent of the service applied
for, the description and location of the property to be supplied and
the rates and terms of payment. All water service taps are to be made
by the Utility or its authorized agent in every case, with charges
as per the schedule according to the size tap desired, it being expressly
understood that curb stops, valves, curb boxes or roadway boxes are
to be owned by the City.
[Amended 3-13-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-16]
A.
Applications for the extension of the water distribution
system shall be made only where sufficient demand for service warrants.
City Council shall set the terms and conditions upon which such applications
will be granted. Extensions of new mains will generally be made as
local improvements with benefits from the same assessable to owners
of abutting property in accordance with applicable law.
B.
Any applicant
adding to or extending the City of Vineland water public distribution
system shall adhere to the Water Utility Infrastructure Standards
document and rules during the planning, preconstruction, construction
and post-construction phases of the project. The steps the contractor
needs to take and the completed forms and data elements required to
be provided back to the Water Utility Engineering office are outlined
in this document in detail along with guidance on when and in what
order they are required for the Water Utility to approve the project.
Any failure to follow these steps may result in the withholding of
those approvals from the Water Utility for the project and delays.
At no time will extension and/or replacement of existing water main
or addition of new water main in the water distribution system be
permitted without an inspector on site. The applicant/contractor shall
select an engineering firm for completing on-site inspections and
water certifications from a list of third-party, prequalified inspection
firms in the standards document. The applicant/contractor shall be
responsible for all costs for the selected engineering firm for all
provided services and it is the responsibility of the applicant/contractor
to confirm all current billing rates from the selected prequalified
engineering firms. As a first step, a performance bond of 30% based
on the contractor's water construction cost estimates for the water
main, in-line valves, hydrants and labor will be due to the Water
Utility. The bond must be in a form of a letter of credit and is due
prior to the start of construction. The maintenance bond will be held
by the Water Utility for a period of 24 months, beginning at the completion
date of the water main extension laboratory certification testing.
Once the twenty-four-month period is over, the applicant must request,
in writing to the Water Utility Engineer's office, for the release
of the bond. In the event the new water main is considered private,
the above bonds will be waived. All water main extensions and/or replacement
of existing water mains shall be installed in complete compliance
with the City of Vineland Water Utility Infrastructure Installation
and Standards Manual which will be provided in all requests for proposal
documents for public bid as well as projects for subdivisions that
extend water service. All areas of excavation on public and/or private
property must be restored to preexcavation condition to also include
private properties impacted by the project. All required project deliverables
documents must be provided to and approved by the Water Utility prior
to final payment and/or formal acceptance for public use of the new
infrastructure components.
[Amended 9-13-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-71]
All applications for water service shall continue
in force from year to year unless notice, in writing, is given to
the Water-Sewer Utility of a desire to terminate the service.
The Water-Sewer Utility will not tap its water
main and run service to tree lines until application is properly executed
and the tapping fee, as per the schedule, is paid in advance.
All water taps made and services installed after the passage of this Part 4 must be metered, except in cases where the applicant desires to have water for building purposes on flat-rate charges, and this supply must be metered if the Water-Sewer Utility so directs.
Each consumer must have installed at his own
expense a stop and waste valve on the service pipe inside the building,
said valve to be installed within one foot of where the service pipe
enters said building, said valve so located and arranged that the
water supply may be shut off without difficulty.
Before any change is made in the plumbing affecting
the meter installation or the main stop and waste valve of any premises
supplied with water by the Water-Sewer Utility, a written application
for such change in plumbing must be made to the Utility.
[Amended 8-26-1986 by Ord. No. 86-46]
A.
Water taps made for residential domestic water use
shall not exceed one inch in accordance with the Water-Sewer Utility
Water Conservation Plan on file with the State of New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection.
B.
The two options for water taps for duplex residential
dwellings are as follows:
(1)
Each side of the dwelling may be provided with its
own one-inch tap.
(2)
A one-and-one-half-inch tap may serve both sides.
Where a single one-and-one-half-inch tap is made, the one-and-one-half-inch
meter shall be located in a meter box or vault located outside the
building and as close as possible to the curb stop.
C.
In all cases, the size of the service pipe entering
the building shall be equal to the size of the tap made for the same.
