Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this ordinance shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
Shall mean the Northwest Bergen County Sewer Authority or
its duly authorized representative or agent.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND
Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical
oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in
five (5) days at twenty degrees centigrade, expressed in parts per
million by weight.
BOROUGH
Shall mean the Borough of Waldwick, New Jersey.
BOROUGH ENGINEER
Shall mean a registered professional engineer licensed in
the State of New Jersey and employed by the Borough of Waldwick or
its authorized representative.
BUILDING DRAIN
Shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a
drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and
other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys
it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) peripheral feet outside
the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER
Shall mean the extension from the building drain to the building
sewer lateral or other place of disposal.
BUILDING SEWER LATERAL
Shall mean that part of the sewerage system extending between
the public sewer and the curbline.
FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
Shall mean an establishment which prepares hot food for consumption.
[Added 3-23-93 by Ord. 4-93]
GARBAGE
Shall mean solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and
dispensing of food, and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
GREASE INTERCEPTOR
A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain
harmful, hazardous or undesirable matter from normal wastes while
permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the sewerage
system by gravity. The interceptor shall automatically or semi-automatically
remove and store grease from the sewer. The interceptor shall include
a flow control device to regulate the flow into the interceptor. This
flow control device must eliminate all siphonage. All removed grease
is to be disposed of by the owner or operator of the establishment.
[Amended 3-23-93 by Ord. 4-93]
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Shall mean the liquid wastes from industrial processes as
distinct from sanitary sewage.
TRAP
Shall mean a receptacle designed and constructed to intercept
or separate and prevent the passage of oil, grease, sand or similar
materials into the drainage system to which it is directly or indirectly
connected.
NATURAL OUTLET
Shall mean any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake
or other body of surface or ground water.
PERSON
Shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society,
corporation or group.
pH
Shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight
of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
Shall mean a person licensed and authorized to inspect plumbing
pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S. 26:1A-38 to 44 and N.J.S. 26:3-20
and in the employment of or as agent of the Waldwick Board of Health.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
Shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch
in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER
Shall mean a sewer in which all owners of abutting properties
have equal rights, and which is controlled by public authority.
SANITARY SEWAGE (domestic or home sewage)
Shall mean wash water, water-carried animal waste, culinary
wastes and liquid wastes containing human excreta and other matter,
flowing in or from a building drainage system or sewer originating
in a dwelling, business building, factory or institution.
SANITARY SEWER
Shall mean a sewer which carries sewage and to which storm,
surface and ground waters are not intentionally admitted
SEWAGE
Shall mean a combination of the water-carried wastes from
residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments,
together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be inadvertently
present.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Shall mean a system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage and industrial wastes.
SEWER
Shall mean a pipe or enclosed conduit for carrying sewage.
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
Shall mean a sewer which carries storm and surface waters
and drainage, but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Shall mean solids that either float on the surface, or are
in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids; and which are removable
by laboratory filtering.
WASTE
Shall mean sanitary sewage, garbage, properly shredded garbage
and industrial waste, as defined in this section.
WATERCOURSE
Shall mean a channel in which a flow of water occurs, either
continuously or intermittently.