[1997 Code § 282-29]
Stormwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be discharged
to such sewers as are specifically designated as combined sewers or
storm sewers or to a natural outlet approved by the Superintendent
and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
[1997 Code § 282-30]
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the
following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
A. Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive
liquid, solid or gas.
B. Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous solids, liquids
or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with
other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process,
constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a public nuisance
or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment
plant, including but not limited to cyanides in excess of two milligrams
per liter as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public sewer.
C. Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or having any other
corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures,
equipment and personnel of the sewage works.
D. Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such size capable
of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference
with the proper operation of the sewage works, such as but not limited
to ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags,
feathers, tar, plastics, wood, unground garbage, whole blood, manure,
hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups and milk containers,
etc., either whole or ground by garbage grinders.
E. Any discharge that will produce an oxygen demand greater than could
be expected from domestic sewage.
[1997 Code § 282-33]
Grease, oil, and sand interceptors shall be provided when, in
the opinion of the Superintendent, they are necessary for the proper
handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts or
any flammable wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients, except that
such interceptors shall not be required for private living quarters
or dwelling units. All interceptors shall be of a type and capacity
approved by the Superintendent, shall be so located as to be readily
and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection and shall be maintained
by the owner in continuous efficient operation at all times.
[1997 Code § 282-34]
Where pretreatment or flow-equalizing facilities are provided
or required for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously
in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at his expense.
[1997 Code § 282-35]
When required by the Superintendent, the owner of any property
serviced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install
a suitable control manhole, together with such necessary meters and
other appurtenances, in the building sewer to facilitate observation,
sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manhole, when required,
shall be accessibly and safely located and shall be constructed in
accordance with plans approved by the Superintendent. The manhole
shall be installed by the owner at his expense and shall be maintained
by him so as to be safe and accessible at all times.
[1997 Code § 282-36]
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics
of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this chapter shall
be determined in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Wastewater published by the American
Public Health Association and shall be determined at the control manhole
provided or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole. In
the event that no special manhole has been required, the control manhole
shall be considered to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public
sewer to the point at which the building sewer is connected. Sampling
shall be carried out by customarily accepted methods to reflect the
effect of constituents upon the sewage works and to determine the
existence of hazards to life, limb and property.
[1997 Code § 282-37]
No statement contained in this Article shall be construed as
preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the City and
any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength
or character may be accepted by the City for treatment, subject to
payment therefor by the industrial concern.
[1997 Code § 282-38]
Any developer, subdivider of land or other person, firm or corporation
requiring the approval of the City as a condition precedent to approval
of a subdivision by the City of Absecon City Planning Board or any
other person seeking approval of sewers, laterals or other sewage
collection and/or treatment facilities that it is intended will be
incorporated into the City's sewerage system or any other person
requiring sewerage service for dwellings or other buildings not located
and fronting on a presently existing and accepted municipal street
or fronting on a street so accepted but not presently serviced to
the location of the property by the system of the City shall be required
to comply with this chapter herein set forth and all other rules and
regulations of the City as a condition precedent to the approval of
the City of Absecon City.
[1997 Code § 282-39]
All laterals, sewers, manholes, pumping stations, treatment
facilities and other appurtenances required to be constructed in any
new streets to be dedicated to the municipality within the boundaries
of a development or on any existing street within the City shall be
constructed by the applicant in conformity with this chapter, subject
to the City's inspection, and shall be constructed at the sole
cost and expense of the applicant for all labor, material and supervision
involved, including the cost of inspection by the City and, upon completion
and acceptance by the City, shall become the City's property,
together with any and all easements or rights-of-way necessary for
the effective operation of such collection system. The system shall
be designed so as to connect to the existing public sewerage system
at such point as shall be designated by the City.
[1997 Code § 282-40]
Where enlargement of plant facilities or extension of the City's
system to such point of connection is involved and, in the City's
opinion, the revenues to be derived from such development are either
insufficient to warrant the expense of such extension or the probability
of such revenues resulting from the development is speculative or
where, by reason of limitations of law on the City's borrowing
power or practical impediments to borrowing the needed funds to build
such extensions or enlarge said plant, the City deems it inadvisable
or impractical to continue such extension, then the City may either
refuse to construct the extension or may construct the extension on
terms involving cash or bonded payments by the developer as such payments
make such extension practicable. In the event that the City deems
the potential revenues to be derived from the development to be speculative,
the City may, in all events, require a corporate surety bond or escrow
deposit in an amount sufficient in the City's opinion to guarantee
the condition of the bond, which shall be conditioned for the payment
by the applicant of the cost of any extensions or enlargements made
necessary by reason of the development if the dwelling or other buildings
in the development are not completed within a time to be specified.