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.