This article requires the retrofitting of existing storm drain
inlets which are in direct contact with repaving, repairing, reconstruction,
or resurfacing or alterations of facilities on private property in
order to prevent the discharge of solids and floatables (such as plastic
bottles, cans, food wrappers and other litter) to the municipal storm
sewer system(s) operated by the Borough of Westwood so as to protect
public health, safety and welfare, and it prescribes penalties for
the failure to comply.
No person in control of private property (except a residential
lot with one single-family house) shall authorize the repaving, repairing
(excluding the repair of individual potholes), resurfacing (including
top coating or chip sealing with asphalt emulsion or a thin base of
hot bitumen), reconstructing or altering of any surface that is in
direct contact with an existing storm drain inlet on that property
unless the storm drain inlet either:
A. Already meets the design standard below to control passage of solid
and floatable materials; or
B. Is retrofitted or replaced to meet the standard in §
288-32 below prior to the completion of the project.
Storm drain inlets identified in §
288-31 above shall comply with the following standard to control passage of solid and floatable materials through storm drain inlets. For purposes of this section, "solid and floatable materials" means sediment, debris, trash, and other floating, suspended, or settleable solids. For exemptions to this standard, see Subsection C below.
A. Grates.
(1) Design engineers shall use either of the following grates whenever
they use a grate in pavement or another ground surface to collect
stormwater from that surface into a storm drain or surface water body
under that grate:
(a) The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) bicycle-safe
grate, which is described in Chapter 2.4 of the NJDOT Bicycle Compatible
Roadways and Bikeways Planning and Design Guidelines.
(b) A different grate, if each individual clear space in that grate has
an area of no more than seven square inches or is no greater than
0.5 inch across the smallest dimension.
(2) Examples
of grates subject to this standard include grates in grate inlets,
the grate portion (non-curb-opening portion) of combination inlets,
grates on storm sewer manholes, ditch grates, trench grates, and grates
of spacer bars in slotted drains. Examples of ground surfaces include
surfaces of roads (including bridges), driveways, parking areas, bikeways,
plazas, sidewalks, lawns, fields, open channels, and stormwater basin
floors.
B. Whenever design engineers use a curb-opening inlet, the clear space
in that curb opening (or each individual clear space, if the curb
opening has two or more clear spaces) shall have an area of no more
than seven square inches or be no greater than two inches across the
smallest dimension.
C. This standard does not apply:
(1) Where the Municipal Engineer agrees that this standard would cause
inadequate hydraulic performance that could not practicably be overcome
by using additional or larger storm drain inlets that meet these standards;
(2) Where flows are conveyed through any device (e.g., end-of-pipe netting
facility, manufactured treatment device, or a catch basin hood) that
is designed, at a minimum, to prevent delivery of all solid and floatable
materials that could not pass through one of the following:
(a)
A rectangular space 4 5/8 inches long and 1 1/2 inches
wide (this option does not apply for outfall netting facilities);
or
(b)
A bar screen having a bar spacing of 0.5 inch.
(3) Where flows are conveyed through a trash rack that has parallel bars
with one-inch spacing between the bars; or
(4) Where the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection determines,
pursuant to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places Rules at N.J.A.C.
7:4-7.2(c), that action to meet this standard is an undertaking that
constitutes an encroachment or will damage or destroy the historic
property listed on the New Jersey Register.
The Westwood Police Department, Recycling Coordinator, Department
of Health, Property Maintenance Official, Code Enforcement Officer,
and Housing Officer are hereby individually and severally empowered
to enforce the provisions of this article.
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions of this article shall be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
III, General Penalty, of the Code of the Borough of Westwood for each storm drain inlet that is not retrofitted to meet the design standard.