The purpose of this article 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 Winslow so as to protect public health,
safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for the failure to
comply.
For the purpose of this article,
the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations shall have
the meanings stated herein unless their use in the text of this article
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. MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4) — 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 Winslow or other public body, and is designed and used
for collecting and conveying stormwater.
B. PERSON — Any individual,
corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political
subdivision of this State subject to municipal jurisdiction.
C. STORM DRAIN INLET — 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.
D. WATERS OF THE STATE — The
ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams and bodies of surface
or ground water, 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 hot bitumen), reconstructing or altering any surface
that is in direct contact with an existing storm drain inlet on that
property unless the storm drain inlet either:
A. Already meets the design standard set forth in Section
221-52 to control passage of solid and floatable materials; or
B. Is retrofitted or replaced to meet the standard in Section
221-52 prior to the completion of the project.
Storm drain inlets identified in Section
221-50 above shall comply with the following standard to control passage of solid and floatable materials through storm drain inlets. For purposes of this section, "solid and floatable materials" means sediment, debris, trash, and other floating, suspended, or settleable solids. For exemptions to this standard see Subsection C below.
A. 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:
(1) 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
(2) A different grate, if each individual clear
space in that grate has an area of no more than seven (7.0) square
inches, or is no greater than 0.5 inches across the smallest dimension.
Examples of grates subject to this
standard include grates in grate inlets, the grate portion (non-curb-opening
portion) of 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 seven (7.0) square inches, or be no greater
than two (2.0) inches across the smallest dimension.
C. This standard does not apply:
(1) Where 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) Where 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:
(a)
A rectangular space four and five-eighths
inches long and one and one-half inches wide (this option does not
apply for outfall netting facilities); or
(b)
A bar screen having a bar spacing
of 0.5 inches.
(3) Where flows are conveyed through a trash
rack that has parallel bars with one (1) inch spacing between the
bars; or
(4) Where 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.
This Article shall be enforced by
the Winslow Township Code Enforcement Officer.
Any person(s) who is found to be
in violation of the provisions of this article shall be subject to
a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.) for each storm drain
inlet that is not retrofitted to meet the design standard.