As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AS-BUILT PLAN A plan prepared by the Borough Engineer showing existing house sewer laterals.
BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND") The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
BUILDING CONNECTION That part of the sewage system beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall that receives the discharge from the building drain and conveys it to the building sewer lateral.
BUILDING DRAIN The lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system within a building which receives the discharge from soil and waste pipes and conveys it to the building connection.
BUILDING SEWER LATERAL That part of the sewage system that runs from the sewer main to the curbline and includes all necessary fittings.
GARBAGE Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE The liquid waste from industrial processes, as distinct from sanitary sewage.
MAIN SEWER or PUBLIC SEWER The sewers laid longitudinally along the center line or other part of the street or other right-of-way in which all owners of abutting properties have equal rights and which is controlled by the Borough.
NATURAL OUTLET Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water or groundwater.
pH The logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PLUMBING The practice of installing, maintaining, extending, repairing and altering plumbing systems. It is also the installed plumbing system piping, materials, plumbing fixtures and appurtenances of such systems in connection with the following: sanitary drainage or storm drainage facilities together with their venting systems, a public or private water supply system and fire protection systems within or adjacent to any building, structure or conveyance.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR A person licensed and authorized to inspect plumbing pursuant to the provisions of State Uniform Construction Code Act, N.J.S.A. 52:27D-119 et seq.
PLUMBING SYSTEM The sanitary and storm drainage facilities, together with their venting systems and plumbing fixtures, a public or private water supply system and the fire protection systems within or adjacent to any building, structure or conveyance to a point of connection to a public or private sewage system, public or private water supply or other acceptable terminal.
SANITARY SEWAGE That domestic sewage, with stormwater and surface water excluded, such as sewage discharging from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels, office and commercial buildings, factories and institutions).
SANITARY SEWER A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not admitted.
SEWAGE Any liquid waste containing animal, chemical or vegetable matter in suspension or solution.
SEWAGE WORKS All facilities for collecting, pumping and disposing of sewage.
SEWER A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SEWER INSPECTOR The Sewer Inspector of the Borough or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
SLUDGE Any solid waste remaining after the partial or preliminary treatment of domestic or industrial waste.
SLUG Any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal operation.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN A sewer which carries stormwater or surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial waste.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
WASTEWATER Sewage or spent water, and includes liquid and water-carried wastes from residences and commercial and industrial establishments and other buildings, but shall not include stormwater or surface water.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat wastewater and dispose of effluent.
WATERCOURSE A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
The charge for a new connection to the Borough's sewer system shall be as determined per ERU in accordance with the requirements of Article
III of this chapter. Payment shall be made in accordance with the requirements of the Borough Clerk.
Not fewer than three copies of the rules and regulations of the Bergen County Utilities Authority have been and are filed in the office of the Borough Clerk and are available for public inspection during normal business hours.
The annual user charge shall be computed on the previous calendar year's amount of water used and the current calendar year's charges imposed by the Bergen County Utilities Authority upon the Borough of Edgewater, together with all appropriate administrative costs for the operation and maintenance of the Edgewater sewer system.
There shall be allowed an exemption from the annual user charge for all residential usage less than 300,000 gallons of water used, with the exception of hotels, motels and apartments, for which provision is made hereinafter. With respect to hotels and motels, the exemption shall apply if water usage is less than 300,000 gallons of water used with respect to every eight rooms used for residential occupancy. With respect to apartments, the exemption shall apply to usage less than 300,000 gallons of water used with respect to each separate and individual living unit within the apartment complex.
All privately owned water wells which are connected to water systems eventually discharging into the sanitary sewers of the Borough of Edgewater shall be subject to the following provisions:
A. The owners of wells existing at the date of adoption of this article shall notify the Borough Clerk of Edgewater, in writing, of the existence and location of such wells within 30 days after the date of passage of this article.
B. The owners of wells constructed or completed after the adoption of this article shall notify the Borough Clerk of Edgewater, in writing, of the existence and location of such wells within 30 days of the first usage of such well.
C. The Borough Engineer of Edgewater may inspect such wells to determine the usage thereof if, in the opinion of the Borough Engineer, such well's actual water production, together with the other water usage of the owner thereof, exceeds 400,000 gallons of water per year. The Borough Engineer shall transmit his opinion, in writing, to the Borough Council of Edgewater. After receiving such opinion, the Borough Council may require the owner of such well to install and maintain a water meter thereon, at the owner's expense, by adoption of a resolution.
D. If a water meter is required by resolution as provided in Subsection
C hereof, the owner must install such meter within 60 days of adoption thereof. If the owner shall fail to do so, the Borough Council of Edgewater may, by resolution, provide for the installation of such meter and add the cost thereof to the user charge levied under this article.