As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly
appears from the context, the following words shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, P.L. 92-500, and
any amendments thereto, as well as any guidelines, limitations and
standards promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (hereinafter
sometimes referred to as "EPA") pursuant to the Act.
The Somerset Raritan Valley Sewerage Authority.
For sewer rental purposes, a room, group of rooms, house
trailer or a similar structure or facilities operated or designed
for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family or other group
of persons living together or by a person living alone.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees centigrade (20°C.), expressed in milligrams
per liter.
The Borough of Somerville, in the County of Somerset and
State of New Jersey.
The Borough Engineer as duly appointed by the borough or
his duly authorized agent or representative.
Any building or structure heretofore or hereinafter constructed
and designed and used for dwelling purposes, either temporary or permanent,
or for other use or occupancy by a person or persons.
The extension from the building drain to the branch connection
at the public sewer.
Each building or each part thereof designed or used for any
one or different professional, business, industrial, governmental,
public or private, religious or charitable use or purpose, without
regard to the number of house connections from such building to the
system.
Solid waste from the preparation, cooking and disposing of
food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in milligrams per liter of solution.
The Borough Plumbing Inspector or Borough Building Inspector
of the Borough of Somerville.
The wastes 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
public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2) inch [one
and twenty-seven hundredths (1.27) centimeters] in any dimension.
A building or each part thereof designed for or used as a
residence or abode by a single family, without regard to the number
of house connections from such building to the system.
Any sewer or main designed or used for collection or disposal
of sanitary sewage.
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 fifteen (15) minutes, more
than five (5) times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or
flow during normal operation.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
The sanitary sewerage system, which is all sewers, trunks,
interceptors, laterals, branches, manholes, pumping stations and all
other sewer appurtenances, either publicly or privately owned, which
carry sewage to the borough sewerage plant.
