[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Pennington 11-1-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-14. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated, unless a modified definition applicable to stormwater
management has been adopted by the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection as part of the Stormwater Management Rules, in which case
the definition enacted by the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection shall apply.
The Borough of Pennington.
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, manmade channels or storm drains) that is owned or operated
by the Borough of Pennington or other public body, and which is designed
and used for collection and conveyance of stormwater.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
An opening in a storm drain used to collect stormwater runoff
including, but not limited to, a grate, curb opening, slotted inlet,
and combination inlet.
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams, wetlands,
and bodies of surface or ground water, whether natural or artificial,
within the boundaries of the State of New Jersey or subject to its
jurisdiction.
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), reconstruction or altering a surface that is in direct
contact with any existing storm drain inlet on that property unless
the storm drain either:
Storm drain inlets identified in § 174-2 above shall comply with the following standard to control passage of solid and floatable materials through storm drain inlets. For purposes of this paragraph, "solid and floatable materials" means sediments, 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 (April 1996);
or
(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
that 0.5 inches across the smallest dimension.
(2)
Examples of grates subject to this standard include 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 practically be overcome
by using additional or larger storm drain inlets that meet these standards;
(2)
Where flows are conveyed through a 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 floatable
materials that could not pass through one of the following:
(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 and 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 New Jersey
Register listed historic property.
[Amended 2-23-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-3]
This chapter shall be enforced by the Police Department, the
Code Enforcement Officer and/or the Superintendent of Public Works
of the Borough of Pennington.
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions
of this chapter shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 for
each storm drain inlet that is not retrofitted to meet the design
standard.
