[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord. No. 733]
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 733]
Regulations to prohibit the spilling, dumping, or disposal of
materials other than stormwater to the municipal separate storm sewer
system (MS4) operated by the Township of Maurice River, so as to protect
public health, safety, and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for
the failure to comply.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 733]
For the purpose of this section, the following terms, phrases,
words, and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein
unless their use in the text of this chapter 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.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, manmade channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated
by the Township of Maurice River or other public body, and is designed
and used for collecting and conveying stormwater.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, or political subdivision of this State subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
STORMWATER
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface,
is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage
facilities, or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 733]
The spilling, dumping, o disposal of materials other than stormwater
to the municipal separate storm sewer system operated by the Township
of Maurice River is prohibited. The spilling, dumping, or disposal
of materials other than stormwater in such a manner as to cause the
discharge of pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system
is also prohibited.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 733]
a. Water line flushing and discharges from potable water sources.
b. Uncontaminated ground water (e.g. infiltration, crawl space or basement
sump pumps, foundation or footing drains, rising ground waters).
c. Air conditioning condensate (excluding contact and non-contact cooling
water).
d. Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn watering runoff).
e. Flows from springs, riparian habitats and wetlands, water reservoir
discharges and diverted stream flows).
f. Residential car washing water, and residential swimming pool discharges.
g. Sidewalk, driveway, and street wash water.
h. Flows from firefighting activities.
i. Flows from rinsing of the following equipment with clean water:
1. Beach maintenance equipment immediately following their use for their
intended purposes; and
2. Equipment used in the application of salt and de-icing materials
immediately following salt and de-icing material applications. Prior
to rinsing with clean water, all residual salt and de-icing materials
must be removed from equipment and vehicles to the maximum extent
practicable using dry cleaning methods (e.g. shoveling and sweeping).
Recovered materials are to be returned to storage for reuse or properly
discarded.
Rinsing of equipment, as noted in the above situation is limited
to exterior, undercarriage, and exposed parts and does not apply to
engines or other enclosed machinery.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 733]
This section shall be enforced by the New Jersey State Police
and the Code Enforcement Officer of Maurice River Township.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 733]
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions
of this section shall be subject to a fine not to exceed two hundred
fifty ($250.00) dollars.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord. No. 735]
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 735]
Regulations requiring 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 Maurice River, so as to
protect public health, safety, and welfare, and to prescribe penalties
for the failure to comply.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 735]
For the purpose of this section, the following terms, phrases,
words, and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein
unless their use in the text of this chapter 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.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, manmade channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated
by the Township of Maurice River or other public body, and is designed
and used for collecting and conveying stormwater.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, or political subdivision of this State subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
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.
WATERS OF THE STATE
Means 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.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 735]
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 below to control passage of solid
and floatable materials; or
b. Is retrofitted or replaced to meet the standard in subsection
23-2.4 below prior to the completion of the project.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 735]
Storm drain inlets identified in subsection
23-2.2 above shall comply with the following standard to control passage of solid and floatable materials through storm drain inlets. For purposes of this paragraph, "solid and floatable materials" means sediment, debris, trash, and other floating suspended, or settleable solids. For exemptions to this standard see paragraph 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 rate, if each individual clear space in that grate has
an area of no more than seven (7.0) square inches, or is no grater
than 0.5 inch 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 eights 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 inch.
3. Where flows are conveyed through a trash rack that has parallel bars
with one-inch (1") 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
listed historic property.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 735]
This section shall be enforced by the Construction and Code
Enforcement Officers of Maurice River Township and New Jersey State
Police.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 735]
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions
of this section shall be subject to a fine not to exceed two hundred
fifty ($250.00) dollars for each storm drain inlet that is not retrofitted
to meet the design standard.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord. No. 736]
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 736]
Regulations to prohibit illicit connections to the municipal
separate storm sewer system(s) operated by the Township of Maurice
River, so as to protect public health, safety, and welfare, and to
prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 736]
For the purpose of this section, the following terms, phrases,
words, and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein
unless their use in the text of this chapter 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. The definitions below are the same as or
based on corresponding definitions in the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NJPDES) rules at N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.2.
ILLICIT CONNECTION
Any physical or non-physical connection that discharges domestic
sewage, non-contact cooling water, process wastewater, or other industrial
waste (other than stormwater) to the municipal separate storm sewer
system operated by the Township of Maurice River, unless that discharge
is authorized under a NJPDES permit other than the Tier A Municipal
Stormwater General permit (NJPDES Permit Number NJ0141852). Non-physical
connections may include, but are not limited to, leaks, flows, or
overflows into the municipal separate storm sewer system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Non-domestic waste, including, but not limited to, those
pollutants regulated under Section 307(a), (b), or (c) of the Federal
Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317(a), (b), or (c)).
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, manmade channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated
by the Township of Maurice River or other public body, and is designed
and used for collecting and conveying stormwater.
NJPDES PERMIT
A permit issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection to implement the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NJPDES) rules at N.J.A.C. 7:14A.
NON-CONTACT COOLING WATER
Water used to reduce temperature for the purpose of cooling.
Such waters do not come into direct contact with any raw material,
intermediate product (other than heat) or finished product. Non-contact
cooling water may however contain algaecides, or biocides to control
fouling of equipment such as heat exchanges, and/or corrosion inhibitors.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, or political subdivision of this State subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
PROCESS WASTEWATER
Any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes
into direct contact with or results from the production or use of
any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, byproduct,
or waste product. Process wastewater includes, but is not limited
to, leachate and cooling water other than non-contact cooling water.
STORMWATER
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface,
is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage
facilities, or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 736]
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged through
an illicit connection to the municipal separate storm sewer system
operated by the Township of Maurice River any domestic sewage, non-contact
cooling water, process wastewater, or other industrial waste (other
than stormwater).
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 736]
This section shall be enforced by the Construction and Code
Enforcement Officers of Maurice River Township and New Jersey State
Police.
[Added 12-21-2023 by Ord.
No. 736]
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions
of this section shall be subject to a fine not to exceed two hundred
fifty ($250.00) dollars.