Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the meaning of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
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 milligrams per liter.
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 and conveys it to the building sewer,
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
The extension from the building drain to the public sewer
or other place of disposal.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and
sale of produce.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer or the person duly licensed by the State
of New Jersey and performing the duties of Health Officer appointed
by the Board of Health of the Borough of Allendale.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes,
trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage.
NATURAL OUTLET
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
PLUMBING SUBCODE OFFICIAL
The Plumbing Subcode Official duly appointed by the Mayor
and Council of the Borough of Allendale.
[Added 9-13-2012]
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Those septic tanks, cesspools, sewage disposal devices of
subsurface drainage systems in connection with the foregoing serving
or designed to serve residential, business or commercial structures
and any establishment producing industrial wastes
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
food that have been shredded to such a 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.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sewer which is owned and controlled by municipal or public
authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE
The liquid and intermixed solid wastes from homes or other
structures, exclusive of industrial wastes or storm and surface waters
and drainage.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sanitary sewage and to which storm,
surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE
A combination of sanitary sewage and industrial waste together
with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste 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.
SUMP PUMP
A pump used to remove water that has accumulated in a water
collector sump basin commonly found in the basement of homes.
[Added 9-13-2012]
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.