Township of Mount Olive, NJ Sewers

The owners of all houses, buildings, public buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment or recreation or other purposes, requiring toilet facilities, situated within the Township and abutting on or having a permanent right-of-access to any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the Township are hereby required, at their expense, to install suitable toilet facilities in accordance with Township codes and to connect such facilities directly with the public sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of this Part 1 within 90 days after date of official notice from the Township of Mount Olive to do so, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet of any property line or right-of-access and a sufficient capacity for additional sewer does exist. The sewer service charge for the use of the sewers shall begin 90 days after date of official notice as set forth above.

With connections to be made to the Budd Lake Sanitary Sewer System only, all property owners shall have 180 days after the date of official notice from the Township to connect and comply with all other requirements of §§ 318-50 and 318-51, and the sewer service charge for the use of the sewers shall begin upon completion of the connection or 180 days after the date of official notice to connect, whichever is earliest in point of time.

[Added 9-10-1996 by Ord. No. 31-96]

Within 30 days of the connection of houses, buildings, public buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment or recreation or other purposes to the public sanitary sewer as provided in § 318-50A, any septic tanks, cesspools and similar individual sewage disposal facilities shall be abandoned and filled, at the owner's expense, with suitable material approved by the Township Health Officer.[1]

[1]

Editor's Note: Original § 196-36C of the 1990 Code, which dealt with violations and penalties and which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 10-4-1990 by Ord. No. B-8-90.

§ 318-51 Building sewers and connections.

It shall be unlawful to install any building sewer or to make any connection to the public sewer without first obtaining a building sewer permit. Such installations and connections shall be made under the direction and supervision of the Water and Sewer Supervisor.

Building sewer permits shall be of two classes:

[Amended 4-10-1990 by Ord. No. 16-90; 1-8-1991 by Ord. No. 50-90]

For residential, public buildings and commercial service, the permit fee shall be $36.

For service to establishments producing industrial wastes and/or laboratory wastes, the permit fee shall be $360.

There will be no permit fees for connection to residential properties to the Budd Lake Sanitary Sewer System.

[Added 9-10-1996 by Ord. No. 31-96]

The owner or his agent shall make application on a form furnished by the Township. The permit applications shall be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered pertinent in the judgment of the Sewer Inspector or required by state law.

Permits will expire four weeks after the date of issue but will be subject to renewal for a further period of four weeks.

Where the building sewer has been extended by the Township from the main or lateral to the curb or property line, the following rules shall apply:

The applicant, after securing the building sewer permit, shall notify the Supervisor of Water and Sewer.

No backfill is to be placed without the written permission of the Supervisor of Water and Sewer.

Where the building sewer has not been extended by the Township from the main or lateral to the curb or property line, the following rules shall apply:

The applicant shall secure a building sewer permit and pay the required fee.

The applicant shall do all of the excavation required, supply all of the materials and do all of the work and shall notify the Water and Sewer Supervisor 24 hours before the excavation is ready for the installation of the branch connection. After the inspection by the Water and Sewer Supervisor and approval, the work shall be completed by the applicant.

Street-opening fee, backfilling and repaving shall be as required under the Road Opening Ordinance. (See Chapter 347, Art. I, Street Openings.)

The joint made between the building sewer and the building drain shall be secure and watertight. Standard fittings, approved by the Water and Sewer Supervisor and/or Plumbing Inspector, shall be used for this joint.

All excavations for building sewer installations shall be adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard.

It shall be the duty of the Water and Sewer Supervisor, when notified, to inspect the installation of any branch connection or building sewer to determine whether the same complies with all the provisions hereof and any other ordinances, the enforcement of which is within his jurisdiction. When he is satisfied that the installation complies with the aforesaid requirements, he shall evidence his written approval on the permit.

All costs and expenses incident to the installation and connection of the building sewer shall be borne by the owner. The owner shall indemnify the Township of Mount Olive from any loss or damage that may indirectly or directly be occasioned by the installation of the building sewer. In order to guarantee and protect the Township of Mount Olive from any loss or damage that may indirectly or directly occur by the installation of said building sewer from the main to the curb or property line or the excavation for the installation of any branch connection or any other work, the owner or his agent shall post with the Township of Mount Olive a performance bond in the amount of $5,000 to guarantee the payment of any damage which may occur to the property of the Township of Mount Olive. Such performance bond shall be written by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey and approved by the Township Council of the Township of Mount Olive and shall be posted with the Township of Mount Olive prior to the issuance of the building sewer permit.

A separate and independent building sewer shall be provided for every building, except where one building stands at the rear of another on an interior lot and the rear building is an accessory use as established under the Zoning Ordinance,[1] and as long as both buildings remain under the same ownership.

[1]

Editor's Note: See Ch. 550, Land Use, Art. VI, Zoning.

Old building sewers may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination and test by the Water and Sewer Supervisor and/or the Plumbing Inspector, to meet all the requirements of this Part 1.

In all buildings in which any building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sewage carried by such drain shall be lifted by a sump pump equal to Type F nonclog submerged sewage ejectors as manufactured by Chicago Pump Company or federal master flush screenless sewage ejector as manufactured by Federal Pump Corporation, or equal, and discharged into the building sewer.

An applicant for a plumbing permit shall submit to the Plumbing Inspector, prior to the issuance of a plumbing permit, a plan showing the proposed building drain, invert elevations, grades, locations and its relative elevation to the street sewer. Where individual septic systems are proposed and dry sanitary sewer lines exist, the applicant shall demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the Plumbing Inspector, that a feasible gravity flow building sewer connection exists between the building and the dry sanitary sewer line. Upon completion of the building sewer and prior to acceptance of the same by the Plumbing Inspector, an as-built plan, certified to accuracy by a licensed New Jersey land surveyor or professional engineer, showing the as-built invert elevations, grade and location of the building drain and the main sanitary sewer line and the relative invert elevations between both shall be submitted for the approval of the Plumbing Inspector.

When individual septic systems are constructed where dry sanitary sewer lines exist, the as-built plans shall show the location of the septic tank or tanks, seepage pit or pits, cesspools or disposal field and the invert elevation of the building drain at its connection with the septic tank. In addition, the plans shall provide for sufficient invert elevations of the dry sanitary sewer line and the house lateral at the curbline to enable the Plumbing Inspector to determine that the building sewer is capable of connection to the dry street sewer by gravity flow at such time as the dry sewer line is activated.

§ 318-52 Tampering with system or appurtenances.

No person shall break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structures, appurtenances or equipment which is part of the Township of Mount Olive sewage disposal system.

§ 318-53 Use restrictions; prohibited discharges.

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, swimming pool or pond water, cooling water or unpolluted industrial process waters into any sanitary sewer.

Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following-described waters or wastes to any public sewer:

Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F.

Any garbage which has not first been properly ground up by a residential garbage disposal system.

Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags, feathers, tar, plastics, wood, paunch manure or any other solid or viscous substance capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works.

Mineral acidity: pH should not be less than 4.5.

(5)

Caustic alkalinity: pH should not be greater than 9.4.

(6)

Any explosive or flammable substance or gases or vapors, either free or occluded in concentration, which are toxic or dangerous to humans, animals or aquatic life in streams or to the sewer system.

(7)

Excessive amount of grease or oil that will solidify or become viscous at temperatures between 32° and 150° F.

In addition:

Insoluble substances shall not exceed a daily average of 500 parts per million.

Total solids (soluble and insoluble) shall not exceed a daily average of 5,000 parts per million.

Chlorine demand shall not exceed an average greater than 20 parts per million.

Five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) shall not exceed an average greater than 350 parts per million, and the chemical oxygen demand (COD), by the dichromate method, shall not exceed an average greater than 700 parts per million.

(5)

Sulfides exceeding two parts per million are prohibited.

(6)

Any toxic or irritating substances which will create conditions hazardous to public health and safety are prohibited.

(7)

Poisons in sufficient quantities to endanger man or interfere with biological processes are prohibited.

(8)

Phenols and/or orthocreosols in excess of 0.01 part per million are prohibited.

(9)

Any substance which the municipality now or hereafter finds to be harmful is prohibited.

(10)

Any noxious or malodorous gases or substances capable of creating a public nuisance are prohibited.

(11)

Oils, fats or grease, except as may result from household, hotel or restaurant operation, are prohibited.

(12)

Surface or rain water from yards, areas, courts, cellars, drains or roofs is prohibited.

(13)

Dairy, brewery or distillery waste in any form is prohibited.

(14)

In addition, any waste or substance which shall cause or result in any of the following shall be prohibited:

(a)

Chemical reaction, either directly or indirectly, with the materials of construction, to impair the strength or durability of any sewer structure.

(b)

Mechanical action that will destroy or damage the sewer structure.

(c)

Restriction of hydraulic capacity of sewer structures.

(d)

Restriction of normal inspection or maintenance of sewer structure.

(e)

Placing of unusual demands of quantity or quality on the sewage treatment equipment or process, plant or sewers.

(f)

Limitation of the effectiveness of the sewage treatment process.

(g)

Danger to public health and safety.

(h)

Obnoxious conditions inimical to the public interest.

Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when necessary, in the opinion of the Sewer Inspector, for the proper handling of liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts or any flammable wastes, sand and other harmful ingredients. All interceptors shall be equal to those manufactured by the Josam Manufacturing Company and shall be of the type and capacity required to remove the grease, oil or sand and shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and inspection. Grease and oil interceptors shall be constructed of impervious materials, capable of withstanding abrupt and extreme changes in temperature. They shall be of substantial construction, watertight and equipped with easily removable covers which, when bolted in place, shall be gastight and watertight.

Where installed, all grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be maintained by the owner, at his expense, in continuously efficient operation at all times.

The admission into the public sewers of any waters or wastes containing more than 350 parts per million, by weight, of suspended solids or containing any quantity of substances having the characteristics described in § 318-53B or having an average daily flow greater than 2% of the average daily sewage flow of the Township of Mount Olive shall be prohibited, unless approved by the Township Council. Where necessary, the owner shall provide, at his expense, such preliminary treatment as may be necessary, as determined by the Township Engineer, to reduce the quality and quantity of such wastes to these limits. Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted for the approval of the Township Engineer and of the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey, and no construction of such facilities shall be commenced until said approvals are obtained in writing.

Where preliminary treatment facilities are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner, at his expense.

Where necessary, in the opinion of the Township Engineer, the owner of any building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a suitable control manhole in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling and measurement of the wastes. Such manholes, when required, shall be accessible and safety located and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Township Engineer. 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.

All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes, to which reference is made in § 318-53B and E, shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage and shall be determined at the control manhole provided for in § 318-53H 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.

[Amended 9-25-1990 by Ord. No. 40-90]

The maintenance of the building sewer and/or building drain where located on the property being served, whether constructed by the Township or otherwise, shall be the responsibility of the owner of the property served. Where the building sewer is located within the Township right-of-way, it shall be the responsibility of the Township to maintain that portion within the right-of-way.

No statement contained in this section shall be construed as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the Township and any industrial concern whereby an industrial waste of unusual strength or character may be accepted by the Township for treatment at an additional charge, provided that the Township has been advised, in writing, by a qualified consulting sanitary engineer, retained by the Township at the expense of the industrial applicant, that the industrial waste of the applicant can be adequately treated by the then existing sewage treatment plant and the additional cost to the applicant for the treatment has been established.

Garbage disposal units.

[Added 9-6-2016 by Ord. No. 17-2016]

The connection or installation of a garbage disposal unit attached to sewer waste lines leading to the municipal sanitary system is prohibited.

This Subsection L does not prohibit the continued use of any garbage disposal unit presently installed and in use in the Township.

The prohibition of garbage disposal units as set forth herein is intended to cover all potential users throughout the Township, including residential, commercial and industrial.

Any person who installs, connects or uses a garbage disposal unit that was either installed or connected to sewer waste lines leading to the municipal sewer system is subject to punishment.

§ 318-54 Extensions.

All extensions of the public sewer lines shall be by and at the expense of the person making the extension. Complete plans and specifications of the extension that is contemplated, prepared by a qualified licensed professional engineer, shall be submitted to the Sewer Supervisor, along with an application for a sewer extension permit, the fee for which shall be $150, to be paid to the Township of Mount Olive when the application is made.

When the Sewer Supervisor is satisfied that all of the requirements of the Township of Mount Olive have been met and when approval of the State Board of Health has been obtained, he will issue a permit for said sewer extension.

The applicant shall proceed with the construction of the sewer extension as shown on the approved plans, and all of his work shall be subject to the inspection and approval of the Township Engineer. No work shall be covered or backfilled without the approval of the Township Engineer.

In addition to the sewer extension permit fee provided for in this section, the applicant or the user of the sewer shall secure a building sewer permit for each connection to the extension and shall pay the fee provided for under § 318-51B.

Any permit for a sewer extension shall expire at the end of one year from the date of issue. Such permit may be extended by the Supervisor of Water and Sewer for an additional one-year period if, in his opinion, such an extension is in the interest of the Township.

§ 318-55 Authority of inspectors.

The Supervisor of the Water and Sewer Department and other duly authorized employees of the Township, bearing proper credentials and identification, shall be permitted to enter in and upon all buildings, structures and properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing in accordance with the provisions of this Part 1.

§ 318-56 Violations by plumbers; revocation of licenses.

[Amended 9-25-1990 by Ord. No. 40-90]

Whenever, in the opinion of the Supervisor of Water and Sewer, any plumber violates any of the provisions of this Part 1, said Supervisor of Water and Sewer shall report the same, in writing, to the Board of Health of the Township; and if said Board, after a hearing, shall find that the charges are sustained, it may revoke the license of said plumber to do work within the Township of Mount Olive. Said license, if revoked, shall not be reinstated or reissued or renewed until said violation shall have been corrected.

§ 318-57 Connection fees.

[Amended 4-10-1990 by Ord. No. 16-90; 1-8-1991 by Ord. No. 50-90; 12-16-1997 by Ord. No. 37-97; 1-27-1998 by Ord. No. 1-98]

The following schedule of fees shall hereafter be applicable as established from time to time by the Township Council of the Township of Mount Olive. There shall be a connection fee as contained herein, payable to the Township of Mount Olive at the time the building drain is connected to the public sanitary sewer. Said connection fee is required for all buildings and structures to be connected to the public sanitary sewer. Any completed building for which a certificate of occupancy has been issued prior to the passage of this Part 1, and which building has a private disposal system presently in use, is exempt from this connection fee. The sewer capacity charge shall be as follows:

Residential.

Single-family residential: $6,085.

One-bedroom efficiency apartment: $2,623.

Two-bedroom apartment: $4,343.

Three-bedroom apartment: $6,085.

(5)

Multifamily dwelling, other than apartment, per unit: $6,085.

Schools, churches and charitable institutions: same as commercial and industrial.

Commercial and industrial. The fee shall be computed for each connection based on the charge for a single-family dwelling multiplied by the equivalent number of single-family units contributing the same flow rate to the system in accordance with the following:

The design flow rate for one single-family dwelling is 350 gallons per day.

The design flow rate for other types of establishments shall be used to determine the equivalency factor for the type of establishments being connected.

In any case where the design flow cannot be reasonably established, the Township Engineer shall determine the design flow by such means as are fair and equitable.

The minimum connection fee shall be equivalent to that of one single-family dwelling.

Motels, hotels, nursing homes and similar lodging. The fee shall be the same as commercial and industrial, except that only one connection is required.

Subdivisions and site plans.

Where the developer is installing a sewer line at his own cost and is connecting such system to a sewer or trunkline within Mount Olive Township, he shall pay a fee which is 50% of the normal fee.