Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure contained in
standard methods in five days at 20° C., expressed in terms of
weight and concentration in milligrams per liter.
The Borough of Hawthorne in the County of Passaic.
The piping of a household plumbing system which receives
the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the
walls of the building and conveys it to the property line or easement
line.
The quantify of oxygen utilized in the oxidation of organic
and oxidizable inorganic matter under standard laboratory procedures
in three hours at 600° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
Any person designated to inspect and enforce the provisions
of this chapter.
Any building not used exclusively as a residential dwelling
house and not used for industry, as defined herein.
The established curbline or, if no curbline has been established,
then the line designated by the Municipal Engineer.
The DPW of the Borough of Hawthorne or a duly appointed representative
thereof.
Director of the DPW of the Borough or his authorized deputy,
inspector, agent or representative.
The Borough Engineer of the Borough of Hawthorne or his authorized
deputy, inspector, agent or representative.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if
it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
Solid waste from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and
sale of food.
The Health Officer or the person duly licensed by the State
of New Jersey and performing duties of Health Officer appointed by
the Board of Health or governing body of the Borough of Hawthorne.
Includes any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or
other subsurface facility and any above ground party thereof, intended
or used for the disposable of sewage.
A charge to industrial users based on their use of PVSC facilities
to repay the capital cost outlay of the federal share given PVSC under
the provisions of applicable federal law allocable to the treatment
of the wastes from the industrial users.
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user which discharges
more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of domestic sanitary
wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual under Division A, B, D, E or I or which discharges toxic pollutants
into the PVSC treatment works.
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user, except an industrial
or tax exempt user, which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000
gallons per day of domestic sanitary waste.
An industrial user of PVSC facilities that has a flow of
50,000 gallons or more per average workday; has, in its waste, a toxic
pollutant in toxic amounts; or is found by USEPA, NJDEP or PVSC to
have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other
contributing industries, in the PVSC treatment works or upon the quality
of the effluent from the PVSC treatment works.
An outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or
groundwater, including the Passaic River or any of its tributaries.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
Any individual, form, company, partnership, association,
society, corporation or group or society, and includes the State of
New Jersey and agencies, districts, commissioners and political subdivision
created by or pursuant to state law.
The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter
of solution. Neutral water has a pH value of seven (a hydrogen concentration
of 10). Lower pHs are alkaline.
The Plumbing Inspector duly appointed by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Hawthorne.
The reduction in the amount or elimination of pollutants
or the alteration of the natural pollutant properties in industrial
wastes prior to the discharge of such wastes into the PVSC treatment
works, whether such reduction, elimination or alteration is obtained
by physical, chemical or biological processes, process change or other
means.
Any sanitary sewerage system not a public sewerage system,
whether with or without a treatment plant.
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency, public
utility or the municipality.
The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater, and surface
water that are not admitted intentionally.
Waste derived principally from dwellings, office building
and sanitary conveniences. When segregated from industrial wastes,
may come from industrial plants or commercial enterprises.
The extension of the building sewer from the street property
line or easement line to the street sewer.
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
All of the facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and
disposing of sewage.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
street sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in diameter.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or quantity of flow, exceeds,
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five
times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during normal
operation.
The discharge of industrial waste or any constituents thereof
to the PVSC treatment works in such quantity that the average hourly
discharge over any period of a two-hour duration is more than twice
the daily average hourly discharge of industrial wastes or constitutes
thereof.
(Sometimes called "storm sewer.") A drain or sewer for conveying
water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any
source.
A measurement of suspended solids and/or biochemical oxygen
demand and/or chemical oxygen demand and/or any other parameter determined
by PVSC as a fair indicator of the relative uses, other than volumetric,
or PVSC facilities by industrial wastes.
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface
of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids and
that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to
as "nonfilterable residue."
As defined by USEPA in 40 CFR 129 (38 FR 24342, 9-7-73) and
any superseding revisions.
Any fixed quantity, amount, distance or measure used as a
standard.
Water quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria
in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water
quality standards and would not be benefited by discharging to the
sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
A charge levied on users of the PVSC treatment works, or
that portion of the ad valorem taxes paid by a user, for the users'
proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance, including
replacement.
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquids and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may
be present.
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent.
The PVSC facilities.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously
or intermittently.
