A.
ACT
ALGICIDE
BIOCIDE
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
CFR
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
CHLORINE DEMAND
CITY
CITY PERMIT
COMBINED SEWAGE
COMBINED SEWER
CONTAMINANT
COOLING WATER
DAILY AVERAGE
DAY(S)
DISCHARGE
DISCHARGE MONITORING REPORT (DMR)
DISCHARGER
DOMESTIC WASTES
EPA
EQUIVALENT DOMESTIC UNIT
GARBAGE
GROUNDWATER
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE
HAZARDOUS WASTE
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTANTS
INFILTRATION
INFLOW
MCUA
MGD
NATURAL OUTLET
NJDEP
NJPDES
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
NONRESIDENTIAL USER
NONRESIDENTIAL WASTES
OFFICIAL NOTICE BY THE CITY
OTHER WASTES
PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS
pH
POLLUTANT
PRETREATMENT STANDARD
PRIORITY POLLUTANT
PRIVATELY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS
PROCESS WASTE WATER
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
RADIOACTIVE WASTE
RESIDENCE
RESIDENTIAL USER
RUNOFF
SANITARY SEWER
SEPTAGE
SEWAGE
SEWAGE FROM VESSELS
SEWER
SIGNIFICANT INDIRECT USER (SIU)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
SLUG
SOURCE
STATE
STATE ACT
STORM SEWER
STORM WATER
SURFACE WATER
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS
TOXIC POLLUTANT
TRADE SECRET
TREATMENT WORKS or SEWAGE TREATMENT
USER
WATERS OF THE STATE
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have
the following meanings:
The Clean Water Act of 1977, P.L. 95-217, 33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq. and any amendments, thereto.
Chemical agents which have the capacity to destroy or otherwise
control phytoplankton (algae) in water.
Chemical agents with the capacity to destroy biological life
forms. Bactericides, insecticides, pesticides, etc., are examples
of biocides.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days
at 20° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
The Code of Federal Regulations.
The measure of organic matter present in the sewage as determined
by dichromatic reflux method and expressed in milligrams per liter
(parts per million).
The amount of chlorine expressed in milligrams per liter,
or parts per million by weight, which will complete the normal reactions
with all chemicals and materials in the sewage leaving an excess of
0.1 milligram per liter [0.1 part per million by weight] after 30
minutes contact time at room temperature of approximately 70°
F.
The City of Perth Amboy and, when the context requires, shall
mean the City Engineer or the Director of Municipal Utilities or an
authorized deputy, agent or representative, and "approval" or "when
required" or "approved" shall mean the approval of or as required
by any of the above persons.
The permit issued by the City entitled "(SIU) significant
indirect user discharge permit" attached hereto;[1] the respective SIU shall be the permittee.
A mixture of rainfall runoff and sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage to which storm and
surface waters which are intentionally admitted.
Any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substance
or matter in water.
The water discharged from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling, refrigeration or other but which shall be free
from odor and oil. It shall contain no polluting or contaminating
substances which would produce BOD or suspended solids each in excess
of 10 parts per million by weight.
The discharge of pollutant measured during a calendar day
or any twenty-four-hour period that reasonably represents the calendar
day for purposes of sampling. For pollutants with limitations expressed
in units of mass, the "daily average" is calculated as the total mass
of the pollutant discharged over the day. For pollutants with limitations
expressed in other units of measurement, the "daily average" is calculated
as the average measurement of the pollutant over the day.
Calendar days.
The releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying or dumping of a pollutant into the water of the state or
onto land or into wells from which the pollutant might flow or drain
into said waters, and shall include the release of any pollutant into
the treatment works.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency uniform
national form, including any subsequent additions, revisions or modifications,
for the reporting of self-monitoring results by permittees.
Any person, corporation, municipality, sewerage authority
or other legal entity who causes, knows of or should have reason to
know of, or allows any discharge.
Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking
and handling of food, and consisting of human excrement or similar
matter from the sanitary conveyances of residences. "Domestic waste"
shall be limited to waste which, upon analysis by the City, shall,
by weight, be all of the following:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
For nonresidential structures, the number obtained by calculating
per diem sewer flow in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:9-2.6 and dividing
by two 240.
[Added 6-20-89 by Ord. No. 485-89]
Solid wastes produced from domestic and/or commercial preparation,
handling, cooking and dispensing of food and/or solid wastes produced
from the handling, storage and sale of produce, animals, vegetable
or other putrescible matters.
Water below the land surface in a zone of saturation.
Any substance designated under 40 CFR 116 pursuant to Section
311 of the Federal Act, the Spill Compensation and Control Act, N.J.S.A.
58:10-23-11 et seq. or Section 4 of the State Act.
A hazardous waste as defined in the Hazardous Waste Management
Regulations, N.J.A.C. 7:26-6 or at a minimum as defined in 40 CFR
261.
All nondomestic waste, including but not limited to those
wastes or pollutants regulated under Section 307 (a), (b) or (c) of
the Act.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system,
including sewer service connections and foundation drains from the
ground, through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections
or manholes. "Infiltration" does not include and is distinguished
from inflow.
Water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system,
including sewer service connections from sources, such as but not
limited to roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains,
drains from springs, and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections
between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers,
stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. "Inflow"
does not include and is distinguished from infiltration.
The Middlesex County Utilities Authority, Sayreville, New
Jersey.
Millions of gallons per day.
A naturally formed discharge point, such as into a watercourse,
river, stream, stream bed or other body of surface or ground water.
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection or successor
agency.
New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, N.J.A.C.
7:14A-1.1 et seq.
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. "Noncontact
cooling water" may, however, contain algicides or biocides to control
fouling of heat exchanges.
Any user or source of the treatment works who is not a totally
residential source.
Discharged from nonresidential users of the treatment works.
Notice given by the City, delivered by certified mail, return
receipt requested, or delivered by hand by an authorized agent of
the City of the owner or operator or any property or facility subject
to the provision of the Sewer Use Ordinance.
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand,
lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dye stuffs, acids, chemicals
and all other discarded matter not sewage or industrial pollutants
or nonresidential wastes.
Portion of the total extractable grease or fats which is
not retained on an activated alumina absorption column after elutriating
with hexane.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue filter
backwash, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions,
domestic waste, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive
substance, thermal waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand,
cellar dirt and industrial municipal, agricultural and construction
waste or runoff or other residue discharged to the land, groundwaters
or surface waters of the state and/or treatment works of the City.
Any limitation on quantities, quality, rates and/or concentrations
of pollutants discharged into municipal or privately owned treatment
works by other than residential users, adopted pursuant to Pretreatment
Standards For Sewerage, N.J.S.A. 58:11-49 et seq., Section 4 of the
State Act, or any national, state or local regulations.
Those pollutants listed pursuant to Section 307(a)(1) of
the Act and Sections 4 and 6 of the State Act or as listed in Tables
II, III, V and VI of Appendix B of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.1 et seq.
Any device or system which is used to treat wastes from any
facility whose operator is not the operator of the treatment works
and not a publicly owned treatment works or user of publicly owned
treatment works.
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, by-product
or waste product.
The wastes generated from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in sanitary sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch [1.27 centimeters]
in any dimension.
Any device or system used in the treatment (including recycling
and reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
nature which is owned by the City. This definition includes sewers,
pipes, meter pit or other conveyances only if they convey wastewater
to a POTW providing treatment.
Any waste which contains radioactive material in concentrations
which exceed those listed in 10 CFR 20, Appendix B, Table II, Column
2, or exceed the Criteria for Identifying and Applying Characteristics
of Hazardous Waste and for Listing Hazardous Waste in 40 CFR 261,
whichever is applicable.
A single-family home, trailer or mobile home and each dwelling
unit in multiple-dwelling units or attached townhouses, condominiums
or apartments.
[Added 6-20-89 by Ord. No. 485-89]
Any user of the treatment works whose discharges are domestic
wastes from totally residential sources.
Any rainwater, leachate or other liquid that drains overland
from any part of a facility or roof.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
The combination of liquid and solid residues resulting from
the treatment of waterborne domestic waste in an individual subsurface
sewage disposal system.
Any wastes or admixtures thereof, including wastes from humans,
households, commercial establishments, industries and stormwater runoff
and infiltration, that are discharged to or otherwise enter the treatment
works.
Human body wastes and the wastes from toilets and other receptacles
intended to receive or retain body wastes that are discharged from
vessels, including graywater, and regulated under Section 312 of the
Act or under the State Act. For the purposes of this definition, "graywater"
means galley, bath and shower water.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, including combined
sanitary or storm.
Any user who discharges on any one day wastewater into the
treatment works where:
The volume of industrial process wastewater exceeds 25,000 gallons
per day;
The amount of BOD, COD or suspended solids in the industrial
process wastewater discharge exceeds the mass equivalent of 25,000
gallons per day of the domestic waste of the affected treatment works;
The volume of industrial process wastewater in the discharge
exceeds 5% or more of the average daily flow of the treatment works;
The discharge of industrial process wastewater contributes,
prior to any pretreatment, 5% or more of the daily mass loading of
any of the pollutants listed in Appendix B. Tables II-VI of N.J.A.C.
7:14A-1.1 et seq.;
The user of the treatment works is determined to be a hazardous
waste facility under N.J.A.C. 7:26-12 and meets the requirements of
N.J.A.C. 7:14A4.2(b)1;
The user is determined to be an industrial waste management
facility under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-4;
The user or discharges have been found by the Department to
be in violation of state laws or regulations or local ordinances concerning
environmental issues;
The discharge consists of landfill leachate, either pure or
diluted by groundwater or surface runoff;
The discharge consists of significant quantities of polluted
groundwater which is pumped from the ground in order decontaminate
an aquifer, or
The City determines it would be consistent with the intent of
the Pretreatment Act or State Act to require a permit for the indirect
discharger.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds,
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five
times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal
operation and which may adversely affect the collection system and/or
performance of the treatment works.
Any facility from which there is or may be a discharge.
The State of New Jersey.
The New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act. N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1
et seq.
A sewer intended to carry only stormwater, groundwater and
drainage. It may carry cooling water or other unpolluted waters.
Waters which result primarily from surface runoff and includes
street wash water and drainage.
Any waters of the state which are not groundwater.
The matters that either float on the surface of, or are in
suspension in, water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable
by laboratory filtration.
The total dissolved filterable solids as determined by the
use of the method specified in 40 CFR 136.
Those pollutants, or combination of pollutants, including
disease causing agents, which after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion,
inhalation or assimilation into any organism, either directly or indirectly
by ingestion through food chains, may, on the basis of information
available to the City, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities,
cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions
in reproduction, or physical deformation, in such organisms or their
offspring. "Toxic pollutants" shall include, but not be limited to,
those pollutants identified pursuant to Section 307 of the Act or
Section 4 of the State Act.
The whole or any portion or phase of any scientific, technical
or otherwise proprietary information, design, process, procedure,
formula or improvement which is used in one's business and is secret
and of value. A "trade secret" shall be presumed to be secret when
the owner takes measures to prevent it from becoming available to
persons other than those selected by the owner to have access thereto
for limited purposes. A "trade secret" shall not apply to effluent
data as provided in Section 9(c) of the State Act.
Any device or system, whether public or private, used in
the storage, treatment, recycling or reclamation of municipal or industrial
waste of a liquid nature, including intercepting sewers, outfall sewers,
meter pit, sewage collection systems, cooling towers and ponds, pumping,
power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements,
remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential
to provide a reliable recycled supply, such as standby treatment units
and clear well facilities; and any other works, including sites for
the treatment process or for ultimate disposal of residues resulting
from such treatment. Additionally, "treatment works" means any other
method of system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating,
separating or disposing of pollutants, including stormwater runoff
or industrial waste in combined or separate stormwater and sanitary
sewer systems.
Any person, individual, private firm, company, partnership,
corporation, association, group or society, mobile source and includes
political subdivisions of this state and any federal, state or interstate
agency.
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams and bodies
of surface or groundwater, whether natural or artificial, within the
boundaries of this state or subject to its jurisdiction.
[1]
Editor's Note: Significant indirect user permits are on file
in the office of the City Clerk.
B.
"Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
