[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Wood-Ridge 12-26-1975 by Ord. No. 700 as Ch. XII of the 1975
Revised General Ordinances (Ch. 208 of the 1986 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
The Borough sewer system shall be used to carry refuse from
kitchen or slop sinks, bath or laundry tubs, urinals or other like
sources and the wastes from toilets.
No owner of any building or place shall allow or permit the
exhaust from any steam engine or boiler to discharge directly into
the sewer.
No person, without special permission of the Council, shall discharge or cause or suffer to be discharged into the sewer system any refuse or wastes other than those specified in § 435-1, nor any rain water or stormwater, surface or subsoil or cellar drainage waters, nor wastewater from any water motor.
Special permission may be granted by the Council to the owners
or occupants of mills, factories or other places of business to discharge
into the sewer system any water or other fluids that will not deposit
a sediment or obstruction, but in each case such permission shall
be upon such conditions and terms as the Council shall fix and determine.
Every permit shall at all times be revocable at the pleasure of the
Council.
Except by permission of the Borough Council, no person shall
injure, break, remove or meddle with any portion of any manhole, lamp
hole, flush tank, catch basin or other appliance of the sewer system,
and no person shall throw, discharge or cause to be thrown in or into
any sewer opening or receptacle connected with the sewer system any
garbage, offal, dead animals, vegetable parings, ashes, cinders, rags
or other articles, things or matters which are liable to injure the
sewer system or to obstruct the flow of sewage therein.
No person shall lay, alter or repair any house drain or sewer
or do any plumbing work with the sewer system unless the work shall
comply with state and county requirements and unless he shall have
first obtained a license therefor and also a permit as hereinafter
required.[1]
No person shall open or dig up any street or public place within
the Borough in order to make a connection with the sewer system, nor
shall anyone tap or make a connection with the sewer system or any
part thereof without first obtaining a permit therefor.
A permit to make a sewer connection shall be issued by the Borough
Clerk only when the following requirements have been complied with:
A.
The owner of the property for which the connection is desired shall
apply therefor in writing, stating the name of the owner, the character
and dimensions of the building to be connected, a description of the
lot or curtilage whereon the building is located, the precise location
of the building thereon and the name of the person to do the work
of making such connections. The tenor and form of the application
shall be as prescribed by the Council.
B.
Before final connection with the sewer system, a statement from the
Board of Health that the plumbing in the building is in accordance
with the rules of or is approved by the Board of Health shall be filed
with the Clerk.
D.
As referenced hereinabove in Subsection C, the following permit fees shall apply as a one-time charge on new structures built within the Borough having a connection to any public sewer system, in addition to other connecting fees permitted by Borough ordinance:
[Added 1-17-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-5; amended 12-1-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-25]
(1)
Single-family structure: $1,500.
(2)
Multifamily structure: $2,000 per unit. Multifamily structures are
to be billed per each unit and shall include apartments, apartment
buildings, condominiums and any detached or attached home, townhome,
row house, etc., which contains more than one livable unit.
E.
Classes of users.
[Added 6-15-1987 by Ord. No. 87-11]
(1)
There shall be a division of classes of users based upon the average
flow of gallons of sewage per day within each of said classes.
(3)
The classes above shall be further divided into subclasses, as follows:
(4)
The average flow of gallons of sewage per day within Class I shall,
for the purposes of setting the fees herein, be considered a single
"unit."
(5)
Units within each class and subclass shall be updated by the Borough
Engineer in his/her sole discretion, as the same may be necessary,
and this chapter shall be amended accordingly.
(6)
The number of units within each class or subclass shall be as follows:
F.
The fee charged to each new connecting user, in addition to that charged pursuant to Subsection C hereof, shall be computed as follows:
[Added 6-15-1987 by Ord. No. 87-11]
(1)
The amount representing all debt service, including but not limited
to sinking funds, reserve funds, the principal and interest on bonds,
and the amount of any loan and interest thereon, paid by the Borough
authority to defray the capital cost of developing the system as of
the end of the immediately preceding fiscal year of the Borough shall
be added to all capital expenditures made by the Borough not funded
by a bond ordinance or debt for the development of the system as of
the end of the immediately preceding fiscal year of the authority.
(2)
Any gifts, contributions or subsidies to the Borough received from
and not reimbursed or reimbursable to any federal, state, county or
municipal government or agency or any private person and that portion
of amounts paid to the Borough by a public entity under a service
agreement or service contract which is not repaid to the public entity
by the Borough shall then be subtracted.
(3)
The remainder shall be divided by the total number of service units
served by the Borough at the end of the immediately preceding fiscal
year of the Borough, and the results shall then be apportioned to
each new connector according to the number of service units attributed
to that connector, to produce the connector's contribution to
the cost of the system.
G.
The connection fee shall be recomputed at the end of each fiscal
year of the Borough after a public hearing.
[Added 6-15-1987 by Ord. No. 87-11]
[Amended 10-20-1986 by Ord. No. 86-16]
A separate permit shall be obtained for each separate building
for which a connection is desired.
No permit shall be deemed to authorize anything to be done which
is not stated in the application therefor.
Any person licensed to make any sewer connections who shall
proceed with any work under a permit obtained by an application containing
any material misrepresentation shall be liable to have his license
suspended or revoked as the Council may determine.
A.
All connections with the sewer system shall be made carefully and
in a workmanlike manner.
B.
The pipe shall be of iron or salt-glazed petrified earthenware of
good quality.
C.
The pipe shall be all laid true to grade as nearly as possible in
a straight line, except for the connection with a sewer main, where
curved pipe must probably be used.
All openings and excavated material shall be disposed of so
as not to inconvenience travel on the affected streets, obstruct the
free flow of water along gutters or interfere with immediate access
to fire hydrants.
A.
No person shall open any street or other public place in which sewers
were laid in order to lay therein any pipe for water, gas, steam or
other purpose unless he shall give the Borough Clerk at least 24 hours'
notice before making such opening. The notice shall state the character
of the work to be done and the method to be employed.
All cesspools upon properties connected with sewers shall, after
such connection is made, be abolished and the vaults cleaned and filled
in the manner required by the Board of Health.
The Council, without liability to answer in any manner therefor,
may direct to be stopped and disconnected any sewer, pipe or drain
from which anything is discharged that is likely to injure or obstruct
the sewer system.
[Amended 7-20-1992 by Ord. No. 92-15]
A.
The Rules and Regulations of the Bergen County Utilities Authority
are hereby incorporated into and made a part of this section.
(1)
All references to "Rules and Regulations of the Bergen County Utilities
Authority" shall mean and refer to the rules and regulations governing
the use of public and private sewers, an industrial cost recovery
system and a user charge system contained within a code titled "Bergen
County Utilities Authority Rules and Regulations for the Direct and
Indirect Discharge of Wastewater to the Bergen County Utilities Authority
Treatment Works," as approved by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency, which are hereby adopted and incorporated herein by reference
and which may, from time to time, be amended.
(2)
At least three copies of the Rules and Regulations of the Bergen
County Utilities Authority have been and are filed in the office of
the Clerk of the Borough of Wood-Ridge.
(3)
The use and operation of all sanitary sewers within the Borough of
Wood-Ridge shall be in compliance with the Rules and Regulations of
the Bergen County Utilities Authority, which may, from time to time,
be amended.
(4)
Any conflict or inconsistency between the requirements of this chapter
and the applicable rules and regulations of the Bergen County Utilities
Authority, which may, from time to time, be amended, shall be resolved
in favor of the more restrictive requirements.
(5)
The Borough Engineer may adopt rules and regulations consistent with
the provisions of this chapter for the purpose of ensuring compliance
with the provisions of this chapter, and any violation of any such
rule or regulation shall be deemed to constitute a violation of this
chapter.
B.
The Borough Council, Borough Engineer and such inspectors or superintendents
of streets and sewers as may from time to time be appointed are authorized
and charged to enforce the provisions of this chapter and to give
directions in respect to any matter likely to result in injury to
the sewer system or to the proper management and operation thereof.
[Added 12-4-2012 by Ord.
No. 2012-14]
B.
The imposition
of said charges and/or fees required herein shall only apply to those
units which are subject to a PILOT or tax abatement agreement (N.J.S.A.
40A:12A-9 et seq.) between the Borough of Wood-Ridge and the relevant
property owner. The charges and/or fees hereunder shall be due and
payable upon the issuance of a certificate of occupancy by the Borough
of Wood-Ridge and/or its designated delegate.
C.
A dwelling
unit shall be defined as a place to be occupied exclusively by a family,
having its own cooking and sanitary facilities and further being independent
of and not relating to any other dwelling unit in the building. Each
charge shall be due with the first-quarter tax payment commencing
on February 1, 2013.
D.
The Borough
Council may, from time to time, by resolution, allow a credit to senior
citizens or disabled individuals, which amount shall be subject to
period increases by resolution.
E.
For the
following five years, the fee shall be increased by an amount equal
to the increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners
and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), New York - Northeastern New Jersey (Base
Index 1982-84) from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2018. In order
to implement this increase for the balance of the term, the amount
which would otherwise have been due in the absence of an increase
in the CPI shall be determined. There shall be added to that amount
an additional sum equal to that sum multiplied by the percentage increase
in said CPI as set forth herein. The resulting amount due shall be
rounded up to the nearest dollar.
F.
This section
shall take effect on January 1, 2012, and the same shall be used to
calculate all subsequent billings.
