[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Wyckoff 3-15-2011 by Ord. No. 1640.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Flood-fringe areas — See Ch. 118.
Floodplain management — See Ch. 119.
Illicit connections — See Ch. 126.
Sewers — See Ch. 157.
Solid waste disposal — See Ch. 161.
Stormwater management — See Ch. 163.
Individual sewage disposal systems — See Ch. 214.
Sewer connections — See Ch. 216.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded former
Ch. 162, Storm Drain Inlet Retrofitting, Private, adopted 6-1-2010
by Ord. No. 1618.
The purpose of this chapter is to require the retrofitting of
existing storm drain inlets which are in direct contact with repaving,
repairing, reconstruction, or resurfacing or alterations of facilities
on private property to prevent the discharge of solids and floatables
(such as plastic bottles, cans, food wrappers and other litter) to
the municipal separate storm sewer system(s) operated by the Township
of Wyckoff so as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and
to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases,
words, and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein
unless their use in the text of this chapter clearly demonstrates
a different meaning. When not inconsistent with the context, words
used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural
number include the singular number, and words used in the singular
number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory
and not merely directory.
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated
by the Township of Wyckoff or other public body, and is designed and
used for collecting and conveying 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
and includes, but is not limited to, a grate inlet, curb-opening inlet,
slotted inlet, and combination inlet.
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams and bodies
of surface water or groundwater, 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
not bitumen), reconstruction or altering of any surface that is in
direct contact with an existing storm drain inlet on that property.
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 7.0 square inches, or is no greater than
0.5 inches across the smallest dimension.
(2)
Examples of grates subject to this standard include grates in grate
inlets, the grate portion (non-curb-opening portion) of the 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 7.0 square inches, or be no greater than 2.0 inches across the
smallest dimension.
C.
This standard does not apply where:
(1)
The Municipal Engineer agrees that this standard would cause inadequate
hydraulic performance that could not practicably be overcome by using
additional or larger storm drain inlets that meet these standards;
(2)
Flows are conveyed through any 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 and floatable
materials that could not pass through one of the following:
(3)
Flows are conveyed through a trash rack that has parallel bars with
one-inch spacing between the bars; or
(4)
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection determines,
pursuant to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places Rules at 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.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the Wyckoff
Police Department, Township Engineer, Public Works Manager and other
Code Officials of the Township of Wyckoff or as contracted by the
Township of Wyckoff.
Any person(s) found to be in violation of the provisions of
this chapter shall be subject to a fine of $100 for the first offense
and up to $2,000 for a second and each subsequent offense.
Each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase, and the
finding or holding of any such portion of this chapter to be unconstitutional,
void, or ineffective for any cause, or reason, shall not affect any
other portion of this chapter.
