A.
The following Part 1 shall be and is hereby declared to be the "Sewer Use Ordinance of the Township of White" regarding the use of its local sewerage system and the nature of wastes to be discharged into the local sewerage system.
B.
This Part 1 is adopted in accordance with the requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, P.L. 92-500 and the Clean Water Act of 1977, P.L. 95-217; more specifically, the requirements contained in Subpart E of 40 CFR 35.035-16, as well as the agreement dated December 28, 1989, executed between the Township of White and the Warren County (Pequest River) Municipal Utilities Authority [WC(PR)MUA].
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this Part 1 shall be as follows:
The designated representative of the owner of the property
or, in the absence of instructions from the owner or his duly authorized
agent to the contrary, the occupant of any property or premises.
That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system within
a building which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other
drainage pipes, excluding sump pumps, inside the walls of the building
or structure and conveys it to the building sewer.
That part of the horizontal drainage system beginning outside
the face of the building or structure wall which receives the discharge
from the building drain and conveys it to a service lateral of a main
street sewer.
Any concern engaged in service, trade, traffic or commerce
in general, including concerns which provide recreational and municipal
services (industrial concerns are excluded).
Each individual building or structure, whether constructed
as a detached unit or as one of a pair or row, which is designated
or adaptable to separate ownership or occupancy.
Any property within a sewered area upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Any concern engaged primarily in a manufacturing or processing
operation or in research and development activities.
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
as defined in the 1972 Edition of the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, or any amendments made thereto, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
The water entering the local sewerage system from the ground
through such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints,
connections or manhole walls.
The water discharged into the sewer system from such sources
as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar, yard and area drains,
foundation drains, cooling water discharges, surface drains, manhole
covers, storm sewers or catch basins.
A sewer of the WC(PR)MUA which carries wastewater and to
which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally
admitted.
The sanitary sewerage system of the Township which is or
may be connected to the Pequest River Municipal Utilities Authority
sewerage system, including any extensions or enlargements of such
systems.
The Township-owned piping and appurtenances in or along public
highways and streets or along privately owned rights-of-way used for
the collection of domestic sewage or industrial wastes from its users
and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally
admitted.
Any person or persons actually owning any property or premises,
or that person's duly authorized agent.
The authority created by virtue of a resolution duly adopted
by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Warren, New Jersey,
on May 24, 1978, pursuant to the Municipal and County Utilities Authorities
Law.
Any individual, firm, company, society, association, corporation
or any government association.
Any sewage treatment process or processes that are required
to produce a discharge to the Pequest River Municipal Utilities Authority
sewerage system or local sewerage system that will conform to any
standards promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency or the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection.
The facilities and all other sewers, conduits, pipelines,
mains, pumping and ventilating stations, sewage treatment and disposal
systems, plants and works, connections and outfalls and all other
plants, structures, equipment, boats, conveyances and other real and
tangible personal property and all renewals or replacements of any
of the foregoing acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired,
constructed or operated by the Pequest River Municipal Utilities Authority
(PRMUA).
The liquid wastes discharged from residences, buildings,
institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater
infiltration, surface water admixtures or other wastes as may be present,
but from which industrial wastes have been excluded.
Any appurtenance which carries or is intended to carry wastewater
and into which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally
admitted.
The area of the Township which discharges sewage to the PRMUA
wastewater treatment facility.
The agreement between the Pequest River Municipal Utilities
Authority and the Township of White dated December 28, 1989, and any
amendments thereto.
That part of the local sewerage system from the main street
sewer to a point approximately two feet beyond the curbline or paved
portion of the right-of-way.
Industrial wastes and sanitary sewage discharged from residences,
buildings, institutions, industrial establishments or other places,
together with such groundwater infiltration, stormwater, surface waters,
admixtures or other wastes as may be inadvertently present.
Any and all streets, avenues, highways and roads, whether
or not publicly used, dedicated or accepted by the municipality.
The Township Committee of the Township of White or any agent
duly authorized by the Committee to perform any function or give any
approvals in the name of the Township.
The PRMUA wastewater treatment facility and any necessary
or desirable renewals, replacements, alterations, extensions, enlargements
or betterments thereof, whether located on said site or elsewhere.
The person applying for sewage service at one household or
business, whether owner or tenant.
Any arrangements of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
