The following sections set uniform requirements for discharges
into the wastewater collection and treatment system and enable the
North Hudson Sewerage Authority to comply with applicable effluent
limitations, national standards of performance, toxic and pretreatment
effluent standards and any other discharge criteria which are required
or authorized by state or federal law, and to derive the maximum public
benefit by regulating the quality and quantity of wastewater discharged
into these systems.
Terms not otherwise defined herein shall be as adopted in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation; the Federal Guidelines for State and Local Pretreatment Programs, EPA-43019-76-0179, Volume 1, 1977, or the latest revision thereof; P.L. 95-217; N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1; or N.J.S.A. 58:11-49, and as defined in §
342-4 of this chapter.
AUTHORITY
The North Hudson Sewerage Authority.
BENEFICIAL USES
Uses of the waters of the state that may be protected against
quality degradation, including, but not necessarily limited to, domestic,
municipal, agricultural and industrial supply, power generation, recreation,
aesthetic enjoyment, navigation and the preservation and enhancement
of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources or reserves, and other
uses, both tangible or intangible, as specified by federal or state
law.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building, beginning five feet outside the
inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
A sewer conveying wastewater from the premises of a user
to a community sewer.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and stormwater
or surface water.
COMMUNITY SEWER
A sewer owned and operated by the Authority, tributary to
a treatment facility operated by the Authority, otherwise known as
a "public sewer."
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANTS
Compatible pollutants are BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria and such additional pollutants as are now, or may
be in the future, specified and controlled in NJPDES permits NJ0029076,
NJ0029084, NJ0029092 for its wastewater treatment works where such
works have been designed and used to reduce or remove such pollutants.
CONTAMINATION
An impairment of the quality of the waters of the state with
waste to a degree which creates a hazard to the public health through
poisoning or through the spread of disease. Contamination shall include
any equivalent effect resulting from the disposal of wastewater, whether
or not waters of the state are affected.
COOLING WATER
The clean wastewater from air conditioning, industrial cooling,
condensing and similar apparatus and from hydraulically powered equipment.
In general, cooling water will include only water which is sufficiently
clean and unpolluted to admit of being discharged, without treatment
or purification, into any natural watercourse without offense.
CRITICAL USERS
Users whose standard classification is identified on the
Standard Industrial Classifications, SIC, Manual in any of Divisions
A, B, D, E and I, and who:
A.
Have a discharge flow of 25,000 gallons or more per average
workday;
B.
Have a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Authority's
wastewater treatment system;
C.
Have in their wastes toxic pollutants in toxic amounts, as defined
in standards issued under Section 307(a) of Public Law 92-500; or
D.
Are found by the manager to have significant impact, either
singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the
treatment system. A critical user is required to obtain a permit.
DIRECTOR
The Director of the North Hudson Sewerage Authority, or his/her
duly appointed deputy, agent or representative.
EASEMENT
An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned
by others.
ENGINEER
The Authority Engineer, or his/her duly authorized deputy,
inspector, agent or representative.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility. Wastewater shall be considered free of floatables if it
is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with
the collection system.
HEALTH OFFICER
The City Health Officer, or his/her duly authorized deputy,
inspector, agent or representative.
HOUSE SERVICE CONNECTION
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal; also called "building sewer."
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Any privy vault, cesspool, septic tank and discharge field,
bed or seepage pit or pits used only for the disposal of the sewage
from buildings on the premises on which it is located.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid or water-carried wastes of any industrial process,
trade or business not clearly included within the definitions of "sanitary
sewage," "stormwater," "cooling water" or "subsoil drainage" herein.
In general, wastewaters carrying any quantity of oil, greases, fats,
abrasives, chemicals, residues of manufacturing, processed wastes
from dye baths, felting or fur processing, from slaughterhouses, or
meat processing plants and similar substances, whether dissolved,
in suspension or mechanically carried by water, shall be considered
as industrial wastes.
MASS EMISSION RATE
The weight of material discharged to the sewer system during
a given time interval. Unless otherwise specified, the "mass emission
rate" shall mean pounds per day of a particular constituent or combination
of constituents.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows,
into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface water
or groundwater.
NUISANCE
Anything which is injurious to health, is indecent, offensive
to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property so as
to interfere with the comfort or enjoyment of life or property of
the community, the neighborhood or any considerable number of persons,
although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals
may be unequal.
OWNER
The owner of any real estate and also all tenants, lessees
or others in control or possession and use of the property in question.
POLLUTION
An alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by
waste to a degree which unreasonably affects such waters for beneficial
use or facilities which serve such beneficial uses. Pollution may
include contamination.
PREMISES
A parcel of real estate, including any improvements thereon,
which is determined by the Authority to be a single user for purposes
of receiving, using and paying for service.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Garbage which has been shredded or ground to such degree
that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions
normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than
1/2 inch in any dimension.
QUALITY OF THE WATERS
The chemical, physical, biological, bacteriological, radiological
and other constituents and characteristics of water which affect its
use.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The common wastewater and water-carried wastes from human
dwellings and from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries
and similar facilities of business and industrial buildings. In general,
"sanitary sewage" shall not include stormwater from roofs, yards,
streets or open places, water from land surfaces or brooks, clean
overflows from springs, wells, large volumes of subsoil drainage,
large volumes of clean water from air conditioning or other cooling
or condensing facilities, clean wastewater from hydraulically operated
contrivances and those wastes included within the definition of "industrial
wastes."
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer intended to convey only sanitary sewage, or if so
stipulated with respect to the particular sewer, sanitary sewage plus
industrial or other wastes from residences, commercial buildings,
industrial plants and institutions. In general, sanitary sewers shall
not be intended to convey stormwater nor more than very small quantities
of cooling water.
SEEPAGE or SUBSOIL DRAINAGE
Water from soil percolating into subsoil drains and through
foundation walls, basement floors or underground pipes or from similar
sources.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any structure or device, or combination of structures and
devices, for treatment of sewage.
SEWAGE WORKS
All the facilities of the Authority for collecting, pumping,
treating and disposing of wastes.
SEWER
The main pipe or conduit, manholes and other structures and
equipment appurtenant thereto, provided to carry sewage, industrial
wastes, stormwater, cooling water or similar wastes, subject, in each
particular, to the purposes and limitations imposed upon the particular
sewer.
SEWER LATERAL
The extension of the house service connection from the street
curb to the street sewer.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities for collection, conveying, pumping, treating
and discharge of sewage.
SLUG
Any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration
of any given constituent or in quality of flow, exceeds, for any period
or duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five times the average
twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal operation and
shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of
the wastewater treatment works.
STANDARD CLASSIFICATION
A classification of users based on the 1972 Edition of the
Standard Industrial Classification Manual (SIC), Bureau of the Budget
of the United States of America.
STORM SEWER/STORM DRAIN
A sewer or drain, with appurtenances provided and intended
for the conveyance of stormwater with and without other clean wastewaters
as may have been stipulated for any particular drain or sewer.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total suspended matter that floats on the surface of,
or suspended in, water, wastewater or other liquids and is removable
by laboratory filtering, as prescribed in "Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater," and is referred to as "nonfilterable
residue."
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited
by the effluent standards in effect and whose discharge will not cause
any violation of receiving water quality standards.
USER
Any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the Authority's wastewater treatment works.
USER CLASSIFICATION
A classification of user based on the 1972, or subsequent,
Edition of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual prepared
by the Office of Management and Budget.
WASTE
Sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid,
gaseous or radioactive, associated with human habitation, of human
or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing or processing
operation of whatever nature, including such waste placed within containers
of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal.
WATERCOURSE
A natural or artificial channel for the passage of water
either continuously or intermittently.
WATERS OF THE STATE
Any water, surface or underground, including saline waters,
within the boundaries of the state.
The Municipal Health Officer, the Director, the Engineer and
other duly authorized employees of the Authority bearing proper credentials
and identification shall be permitted to enter upon all properties
for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurements, sampling
and testing in accordance with the provisions of this article.
All users shall be classified by assigning each one to a standard
classification category according to the principal activity conducted
on his/her premises, based on the typical wastewater strength for
that type of user as determined by the Authority. The purpose of such
classification is to facilitate the regulation of wastewater discharges
based on quality, quantity and flow to provide an effective means
of source control and to establish a system of wastewater service
charges and fees which will insure an equitable recovery of the Authority's
cost. The elements of quality may include, but not be limited to,
the following: suspended solids, COD, oil and grease and chlorine
demand.