Subject to the requirements of § 95-8, the Borough will maintain all service laterals from the main up to and including the cleanout, when feasible, all of which service laterals shall remain the sole property of the Borough, and shall not be trespassed on or interfered with in any respect. Where the Borough's local sewerage system is located in an easement, the Borough will maintain the service lateral to the limit of the easement.
A. 
The Borough reserves the right to determine the size and kind of the service lateral from the main to the easement or right-of-way limit, and the building sewer. All installations shall be in accordance with the standards and requirements of the current Plumbing Code, as adopted by the Borough and as modified in this chapter. In the event of conflict between the Code and this chapter, the more stringent provisions shall control. The building sewer from the service lateral to the building shall be furnished, installed and maintained by the owner of the property, and shall be laid in a straight line if practical from the end of the Borough constructed service lateral, to the structure to be served. The building sewer and connection to the service lateral shall be installed as set forth in § 95-55 by a licensed plumber and maintained by the owner, and shall be inspected and approved by the Borough's agent prior to backfilling the trench. Any construction not approved shall be immediately removed and reconstructed in an approved manner.
B. 
All building sewers shall be properly constructed in order to avoid the creation of infiltration and/or inflow sources within the Borough's system and at a depth sufficient to afford protection from frost.
C. 
In all buildings in which any building sewer connection is too low to permit gravity flow to the street sewer, sanitary sewage carried by such connection shall be lifted by approved artificial means and discharged to the sewer lateral. The applicant shall be responsible for obtaining any applicable permits from the NJDEP.
D. 
All excavations required for the installation of a building sewer connection shall be open trench work unless otherwise approved by the Plumbing Subcode Official. Pipe laying and backfilling shall be performed in accordance with the requirements of the Plumbing Subcode Official, and no backfill shall be placed until the work has been inspected.
E. 
The applicant for the sewer permit shall notify the Plumbing Subcode Official when the building sewer connection is ready for inspection and connection to the sewer lateral. The connection shall be made under the supervision of the Plumbing Subcode Official.
Where the replacement of the service lateral from the main to the curb is found to be necessary, the Borough will replace the service in the location as previously used. If the property owner or user, for his/her own convenience, desires the new service lateral at some other location, and agrees to pay all expenses of such relocation and cutting and disconnecting the old service lateral, the Borough may lay the new service lateral at the location desired.
A. 
All connections, building sewers and fixtures furnished by the property owner shall be maintained by the property owner in good order, and all piping and connections furnished and owned by the Borough and on the property of the property owner shall be protected properly and cared for by the user. All leaks in the building sewer or any other pipe or fixture in or upon the premises served must be reported to the Borough and repaired immediately by the property owner or occupant of the premises. The property owner shall be responsible for notifying the Borough of the party engaged by the property owner to do any repair or maintenance work to the property owner's building sewer, prior to work being commenced, and the party shall not backfill any trench until the work has been inspected and approved by the Borough's agent. Any work not acceptable shall be immediately removed and replaced by work which is acceptable.
B. 
The Borough reserves the right to inspect the building sewer if it is determined that a problem may exist in said building sewer that is allowing excessive infiltration and/or inflow to enter the Borough sewer system.
The Borough shall in no way be responsible for maintaining any portion of the building sewer or, due to blockages in any portion of the building sewer, for damage done by sewage escaping therefrom; or for lines or fixtures on the property owner's property. The property owner shall at all times comply with applicable Borough regulations with respect thereto, and make changes therein, required by reason of relocation of mains or otherwise.
All septic tanks shall be removed and/or abandoned in accordance with all applicable state and local Board of Health requirements. Prior to the filling or permanent sealing of the septic system, the removal or abandonment of the septic system shall be inspected and approved by the Borough or its agent.
Building sewers to public buildings, churches, commercial establishments and industrial establishments shall be installed to conform to detailed plans and specifications submitted to the Borough by the applicant, and only after review and approval of those plans and specifications by the Borough.
Where the trench bottom is soft and yielding, the Borough reserves the right to require that the building sewer be laid in partial or total concrete encasement. Junctions of two different types of pipe shall be made with adapters manufactured in accordance with the National Plumbing Code for the purpose of making the transition between the specific types and grades of pipe being used.
Under no circumstances will any of the following be connected to the sanitary sewers, either directly or indirectly:
A. 
Floor drain, area drain or yard drain. However, floor drains are permitted in food service establishments and public rest rooms.
B. 
Rain conductor or downspout or sump pumps.
C. 
Air-conditioning equipment.
D. 
Stormwater inlets or catch basins.
E. 
Drains from equipment or manufacturing unless specifically authorized under the provisions of this section.
F. 
Garbage grinders.
A. 
General installation requirements.
(1) 
Grease interceptors shall be installed on the waste piping for all connections to the Borough sewer system from commercial establishments, including, but not limited to, restaurants, delicatessens, food preparation and kitchen areas of supermarkets, department stores, motels, hotels, and institutions such as schools, hospitals and assisted-living institutions, and any other connections which, in the opinion of the Borough, could cause a detrimental effect on the sewer system if a grease interceptor is not installed and properly maintained.
(2) 
When the Borough determines that a grease interceptor is necessary for a new connection to the Borough sewer system, the property owner shall be responsible for furnishing and installing an outdoor, buried, grease interceptor as approved by the Borough. The grease interceptor must be installed prior to issuance of an approval to connect to the Borough sewerage collection system. The Borough may also require the installation of a Borough-approved outdoor, buried, grease interceptor for existing connections to the Borough sewer system where the Borough has determined that the wastewater discharged from the connection is causing an accumulation of grease or having other deleterious impact on the Borough sewerage collection system.
(3) 
Grease interceptors shall be sized, designed and constructed in accordance with procedures stipulated in the United States Environmental Protection Agency Design Manual for On-site Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems dated 1980, or latest revision, for outdoor interceptors, and the Plumbing and Drainage Institute Standard P1-G101 — Testing and Rating Procedure for Grease Interceptors (with Appendix of Sizing and Installation Data), latest revision, for indoor interceptors.
(4) 
Grease interceptors shall be sized based on the design flow tributary to the interceptor as outlined in the above standards. Interior interceptors shall be equipped with devices to control the rate of water flow through the interceptors so as not to exceed the rated design flow of the interceptors and shall have a grease retention capacity of not less than two pounds for each gallon per minute (GPM) of design flow. The size of interior grease interceptors shall be limited to no greater than 50 pounds of grease.
(5) 
Food waste grinders and commercial dishwashers shall not discharge through a grease interceptor. Services discharging to grease interceptors shall be individually trapped and vented, except as permitted otherwise by the National Plumbing Code.
B. 
Approval and permits. Grease interceptors shall not be installed without having obtained the prior approval of the Borough and a Plumbing Subcode permit from the Borough Construction Office. All applications for installation of a grease interceptor shall include the complete sizing basis which includes all information deemed necessary by the Borough including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) 
Number and size of fixtures to be connected to the grease interceptor.
(2) 
Flow rates for fixtures to be connected to the grease interceptor.
(3) 
Number of seats for restaurants, cafeterias and similar eateries.
(4) 
Maximum population/capacity for institutional facilities.
(5) 
Drawing (in the form of a riser diagram for new installations) showing the relationship of the grease interceptor to the remainder of the waste piping system.
(6) 
Such other information as the Borough may deem necessary to make a proper evaluation of the application.
C. 
Maintenance schedule and records.
(1) 
Cleaning and maintenance schedule.
(a) 
Any user of a grease interceptor shall be required to clean and maintain the interceptors on a regular schedule as determined by the Borough at such time as the plumbing permits for grease interceptors are issued. In the event a cleaning maintenance schedule is not provided to the applicant at the time the plumbing permits are secured, the schedule for cleaning and maintenance for currently existing grease traps shall apply, as set forth below.
(b) 
Grease interceptors in operation at the time of adoption of this section shall, at a minimum, comply with the following cleaning schedule:
[1] 
Interior grease interceptors: once per month.
[2] 
Exterior grease interceptors: once per six months.
(c) 
The Borough reserves the right to alter the above stated cleaning frequencies on a case-by-case basis if necessary to ensure that excessive grease accumulations are not occurring in the Borough sewer system.
(2) 
Record keeping.
(a) 
Users occupying buildings in which interior grease interceptors are installed shall maintain a cleaning/maintenance log on the premises which documents the dates on which grease is removed from the interceptors.
(b) 
A log shall also be maintained which shows the date on which accumulated grease is removed from the building site to an ultimate disposal location by a renderer or other licensed septage/sludge transportation service. The logs for ultimate disposal of grease may be in the form of invoices from the renderer or transportation service. The logs shall show the date, amount of grease removed from the site for disposal and the name of the firm which performed the grease removal. Grease removal log sheets shall be maintained for all locations where grease interceptors are installed whether they are interior or exterior units.
D. 
Inspections.
(1) 
Any user in which a grease interceptor is required by the Borough to be installed shall allow Borough personnel to access the grease interceptor at any reasonable time, with knowledge of the owner, as is necessary for the purpose of inspection or observation. The purpose of the inspection is to determine that the equipment is functioning properly and is being maintained in such a manner that it does not discharge grease in concentrations in excess of those permitted by these ordinances or the SCMUA regulations or any state or federal regulations, codes or statutes. At the time of the inspection, all log books for the grease interceptor(s) shall be made available to the Branchville Borough personnel.
(2) 
The user shall provide the Borough personnel with such tools, equipment and labor as is necessary to open the interceptor access cover in the presence of the Borough personnel in order to conduct the required inspection.
E. 
Enforcement and penalties.
(1) 
This section shall be enforced by the Borough Construction Code Official and/or Health Officer. Suspected violators shall be issued a summons and are subject to the penalties provided below.
(2) 
Any person violating any provision of this section, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II. Each violation of any of the provisions of this section and each day that such offense shall continue shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.
Industries permitted to connect to the local sewerage system, even though not initially required to provide pretreatment in accordance with Article IV, may be required by the Borough to provide a control manhole and/or flow meter, to be inspected and approved by the Borough's Plumbing Subcode Official.
Each industry discharging industrial waste into the sewer system of the Borough shall provide facilities and means approved by the Borough Plumbing Subcode Official whereby the waste being discharged may be inspected by designated representatives of the Borough for the purpose of determining the character, concentration and rate of flow. Such determinations by the Borough shall be binding for the purpose of computing user charges. Samples may be collected and evaluated pursuant to latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater for the purpose of determining the quality and quantity of such industrial waste.
Each industry discharging industrial waste into a sewer system of the Borough shall adopt a schedule of discharges of such waste, which schedule is subject to the approval of the Borough to insure that peak concentration of sewage flows shall be minimized giving due consideration to the capacities of the sewer system and to the necessities of factory production.
In the event that a change in a previously approved schedule of industrial waste discharged by an industry interferes with the efficiency of the operation of the sewer system of the Borough or with the disposal of sewage flowing therein, or increases the cost of the operation of such system, then such industry may be required by the Borough to implement one or more of the following:
A. 
Reduce its peak discharge.
B. 
Construct equalizing tankage.
C. 
Partially pretreat the wastes.
D. 
Eliminate troublesome wastes.
E. 
Use any approved means to produce industrial waste of a quality acceptable to the Borough before such waste can be discharged into the sewer system of the Borough.
In the event that any industry fails to conform to these regulations, which failure causes damage to the Borough or the SCMUA treatment facilities or their respective employees or representatives, in addition to any penalties which may be imposed in connection with the violation(s) of this chapter, the Borough shall determine the extent of the damage and bill the industry accordingly. If such bill is not paid within 30 calendar days from the date of the bill, legal action may be instituted to enforce collection, the charge shall become a lien upon the property, and the Borough may elect to discontinue the service after giving 10 days' notice, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A:26A-12. The Borough reserves the right to cancel service, upon 90 days' written notice, in the event of repeated failure to comply with the rules and regulations of the Borough.
Connection to, alterations to, or repairs to the Borough's main, manholes, or other appurtenances of the local sewerage system shall not be made by any person without a permit issued by the Borough.
No person, other than those working for and under the direction of the Borough, shall excavate, construct, install, lay, repair, alter or remove any building sewer or any appurtenance thereof within the Borough if such sewer is connected or discharges, or is intended at some future time to be connected or discharged, directly or indirectly, into any public sewer of the Borough until said person has a permit secured by the property owner and issued by the Borough Construction Official to do such work.
Any permit may be suspended or terminated by the Borough on written notice to the party to which the permit was issued for violation of requirements of these regulations, or for other reasons in the public interest.
The following requirements of this section shall apply to any person who has a connection permit to do such sewer work as provided in § 95-53 of this chapter:
A. 
No building shall be connected to a public sewer unless the plumbing system of said building has a soil vent pipe extended to a point above the roof. The Plumbing Subcode Official may require that no running trap, main house trap or other device, which might prevent free flow of air throughout the whole course of the building sanitary system, building drain and said soil vent pipe, will be allowed.
B. 
The property owner's trench excavations, installations and connection to the public sewer shall be in accordance with the relevant provisions of the National Plumbing Code which has been adopted and enforced by the Borough. The provisions of this code define the materials and workmanship and installation techniques approved for the installation and connections to the public sanitary sewer system, as amended by the specific requirements of this chapter.
C. 
In all buildings where the building drain is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, sewage or other permitted waste carried by such drain shall be lifted by approved ejector pumps in accordance with the National Plumbing Code and discharged to the property owner's service lateral through a HDPE, PVC or ductile iron force main.
D. 
When the property owner's building sewer trench has been excavated, the property owner's building sewer repaired, altered or constructed and connected to the public sewer, and same is ready for inspection, the Borough's agent shall be notified within 24 hours of the making of such connection, and prior to backfilling, during regular working hours and excluding weekends and holidays. Connection to the Borough's system shall not be made until a notice to connect has been issued to the property owner by the Borough. A written clearance to backfill shall be given when the entire building sewer has been tested by the owner with water to a pressure of not less than 10 feet of head for a period of not less than 15 minutes. Said testing shall be made at the time of the inspection by the Borough's agent. No leakage shall be permitted. If any person shall not provide the notice of inspection requirement of this section, the Borough's agent may order all or any portion of said work to be uncovered for inspection and approval. All building sewers, drains, and plumbing fixtures must conform to all other applicable provisions of the National Plumbing Code.
The installation of any portion of the local sewerage system in any street, by the Borough or by others, shall not imply Borough ownership or acceptance of such streets.