[Ord. No. 10-73, Art. III; No. 24-87, §§ 2,3,4]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The duly appointed Attorney of the Borough of Morris Plains.
The duly appointed Engineer of the Borough of Morris Plains
or his authorized deputy, inspector, agent or representative.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The Borough of Morris Plains.
The person duly designated to have supervision of the operation
and maintenance of the Borough sewerage system.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage or wastewater.
Wastewater or water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments. "Sewage" shall
be further classified as follows:
DOMESTIC OR SANITARY SEWAGEThe solid and liquid wastes from toilet and lavatory fixtures, kitchens, laundries, bathtubs, shower baths or equivalent plumbing fixtures as discharged from dwellings, business and industrial buildings.
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE OR WASTESIncludes the water-carried wastes of any industrial process, as distinct from domestic or sanitary sewage. All substances carried in industrial wastes, whether dissolved, in suspension or mechanically carried by water, shall be considered as "industrial wastes."
STORMWATERIncludes the runoff or discharge of rain and melted snow or other water from roofs, surfaces of public or private lands, swimming pools or elsewhere. Stormwater also shall include "subsoil drainage" as defined in Paragraph 7d.
SUBSOIL DRAINAGEIncludes water from the soil percolating into subsoil drains and through foundations walls, basement floors or underground pipes.
COOLING WATERIncludes the wastewater from air-conditioning, industrial cooling, condensing and hydraulically-powered equipment or similar apparatus.
GARBAGESolid wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The pipe or conduit, together with manholes and other structures
or equipment appurtenant thereto, provided to carry sewage and waste
liquids. Sewers shall be further classified as follows:
PUBLIC SEWERA trunk, main or lateral sewer up to and including the Y-branch or T provided for connection thereto, and to which all owners of abutting property have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority. The "public sewer" shall include the branch connection, up to and including the peep sight, but does not include the building sewer.
SANITARY SEWERA sewer which carries only sanitary sewage and to which stormwater, subsoil drainage and cooling water are not intentionally admitted.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAINA pipeline carrying stormwater and surface water or subsoil drainage.
BUILDING DRAINThat part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building sanitary system that receives the discharge from the sanitary waste pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the "building sewer," beginning five (5) feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWERThe extension from the building drain to the peep sight and branch connection.
BRANCH CONNECTIONThe pipe laid incidental to the original construction of a public sewer from said public sewer up to approximately the property line or similar location and there capped, having been provided and intended for extension and for use at some time thereafter as part of the building sewer.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celsius (20° C.), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l) by weight.
The oxygen equivalent of that portion of organic matter in
a sample susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxidant as
determined by the dichromate method and expressed in milligrams per
liter (mg/l) of oxygen.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter solution.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by filtering
as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association.
The amount of chlorine which must be added to water or waste
to produce a residual chlorine content of at least one-tenth (0.1)
mg/l after a minimum contact time of ten (10) minutes.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously
or intermittently.
Either an individual, partnership or corporation holding
a State of New Jersey plumbing license or to whom the Board of Health
of the Borough of Morris Plains has issued a license to practice plumbing
in the Borough during the period when such license is valid.
The duly appointed Plumbing Inspector of the Borough of Morris
Plains.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
A sanitary sewer system/works owned and/or controlled by
the Borough.
A sanitary sewer system/works owned and operated by other
than the Borough.
Includes any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or
any other facility, located on the premises intended or used for the
disposal of sewage.
The Borough Engineer or his representative, the Sewer Supervisor/Public
Works Superintendent of the Borough of Morris Plains.
