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.