All discharges of stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof
runoff, subsurface drainage, cellar sump pump or other waters not
intended to be treated in the treatment facility shall be made to
storm sewers or natural outlets designed for such discharges. Any
connection, drain or arrangement which will permit any such waters
to enter any other wastewater sewer shall be deemed to be a violation
of this section and this chapter.
A.
No user shall contribute or cause to be contributed, directly or
indirectly, any pollutant or wastewater which will interfere with
the operation or performance of the Authority's or borough's waste
system. These general prohibitions apply to all such users, whether
or not the user is subject to National Categorical Pretreatment Standards
or any other national, state or local pretreatment standards or requirements.
A user may not contribute the following substances to the sewer system:
(1)
Any liquids, solids or gases which, by reason of their nature or
quantity, are, or may be, sufficient either alone or by interaction
with other substances, to cause fire or explosion or be injurious
in any other way to the sewer system and the treatment plant or to
the operation of the same. At no time shall two successive readings
on an explosion hazard meter, at the point of discharge into the system
(or at any point in the system) be more than 5% nor any single reading
over 10% of the lower explosive limit (LEL) of the meter. Prohibited
materials include, but are not limited to, gasoline, kerosene, naptha,
benzene, toluene, xylene ethers, alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, peroxides,
chlorates, perchlorates, bromates, carbides, hydrides and sulfides
and any other substance which the Authority, the State of New Jersey
or the EPA regards as a fire hazard or a hazard to the system.
(2)
Solid or viscous substances which may cause obstruction to the flow
in a sewer or other interference with the operation of the wastewater
treatment facilities, such as but not limited to: grease, garbage
with particles greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension, animal guts
or tissue, paunch manure, bones, hair, hides or fleshings, entrails,
whole blood, feathers, ashes, cinders, sand, spent lime, stone or
marble dust, metal, glass, straw, shavings, grass clippings, rags,
spent grains, spent hops, wastepaper, wood, plastics, gas, tar, asphalt
residues, residues from refining, or processing of fuel or lubricating
oil, mud or glass-grinding or polishing wastes.
(3)
Any wastewater having a pH less than six point zero (6.0) or greater
than nine point five (9.5), or wastewater having any other corrosive
property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures, equipment
and/or personnel of the sewer and treatment system or any part of
the facility.
(4)
Constitute a rate of discharge or substantial deviation from normal
rates of discharge (slug discharge), sufficient to cause interference
in the operation and performance of the wastewater facilities.
(5)
Any wastewater containing toxic pollutants in sufficient quantity,
either singly or by interaction with other pollutants, to injure or
interfere with any wastewater treatment process, constitute a hazard
to humans or animals, create a toxic effect in the receiving waters
of the sewer and treatment system, or to exceed the limitation set
forth in a Categorical Pretreatment Standard. A toxic pollutant shall
include, but not be limited to any pollutant identified pursuant to
Section 307(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended,
33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
(6)
Any noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or solids which, either
singly or by interaction with other wastes, are sufficient to create
a public nuisance or hazard to life or are sufficient to prevent entry
into the sewers for maintenance and repair.
(7)
Any substance which may cause the sewer and treatment system's effluent
or any other product of the sewer and treatment system, such as residues,
sludges or scums, to be unsuitable for reclamation and reuse or to
interfere with the reclamation process. In no case shall a substance
discharge to the sewer system cause the Authority's treatment plant
to be in noncompliance with sludge use or disposal criteria, guidelines
or regulations developed under Section 405 of the Federal Water Pollution
Act; any criteria, guidelines or regulations affecting sludge use
or disposal developed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the
Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or state or Salem
County criteria applicable to the sludge management method being used.
(8)
Any substance which will cause the Authority's sewage treatment plant
to violate its NPDES and/or state disposal system permit or the receiving
water quality standards.
(9)
Any wastewater with objectionable color not removed in the treatment
process, such as, but not limited to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning
solutions.
(10)
Any wastewater having a temperature which will inhibit biological
activity in the treatment plant resulting in interference, but in
no case wastewater with a temperature at the introduction into the
sewer system which exceeds forty degrees Celsius (40° C.) [one
hundred four degrees Fahrenheit (104° F.)].
(11)
Any waters or wastes that for a duration of 15 minutes has a
concentration greater than five times that of normal sewage as measured
by suspended solids and BOD and/or which is discharged continuously
at a rate exceeding 200 gallons per minute, except by special permit.
Normal domestic sewage shall be construed to fall within the following
limits:
|
Constituents
|
Permissible Limits
|
|---|---|
|
BOD
|
300 ppm
|
|
Chlorine demand
|
15 ppm
|
|
Settleable solids
|
20 m1/1
|
|
Suspended solids
|
300 ppm
|
|
Ammonia nitrogen
|
30 ppm
|
(12)
Any wastewater containing any radioactive wastes or isotopes
of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits established
by the applicable state or federal regulations.
(13)
Any wastewater containing viable pathogenic bacteria other than
those normal to domestic sewage.
B.
Specific pollutant limitations. No person shall discharge wastewater
containing maximum instantaneous concentration in excess of:
|
Pollutant
|
Concentration
(ppm)
|
|---|---|
|
Aluminum sulfate
|
10.0
|
|
Arsenic as AS
|
0.1
|
|
Barium
|
2.0
|
|
Boron as B
|
1.0
|
|
Cadmium as Cd
|
0.2
|
|
Chromium (hexavalent)
|
0.1
|
|
Chromium (total)
|
0.5
|
|
Copper as Cu
|
1.0
|
|
Cyanide as CN
|
2.0
|
|
Ether soluble matter
|
10.0
|
|
Iron as Fe
|
5.0
|
|
Lead as Pb
|
1.0
|
|
Mercury as Hg
|
0.01
|
|
Nickel as Ni
|
1.0
|
|
Phenols
|
0.005
|
|
Silver as Ag
|
0.2
|
|
Solenium
|
0.02
|
|
Total nitrogen
|
50.00
|
|
Total solids
|
5,000.00
|
|
Zinc as Zn
|
3.0
|
|
Oil, grease or fat
|
100.00
|
C.
Excessive discharge. No user shall ever increase the use of process
water or, in any way, attempt to dilute a discharge as a partial or
complete substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with
the limitations contained in the Federal Categorical Pretreatment
Standards, or in any other pollutant-specific limitation developed
by the Authority, State of New Jersey or the EPA.
D.
If, in establishing discharge restrictions, discharge limits or pretreatment
standards pursuant to this Article, the Authority establishes concentration
limits to be met by an industrial user, the Authority, in lieu of
concentration limits, shall establish mass limits of comparable stringency
for an individual industrial user at the request of such user.
A.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any wastewater
facilities, wastewaters containing substances subject to an applicable
Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standard promulgated by the EPA in
excess of the quantity prescribed in such applicable pretreatment
standards except as otherwise provided in this section. Compliance
with such applicable pretreatment standards shall be within three
years of the date the standard is promulgated; provided, however,
that compliance with a categorical pretreatment standard for new sources
shall be required upon promulgation.
B.
Upon application by a Class III user, the Authority shall revise
any limitations on substances specified in the applicable pretreatment
standards to reflect removal of the substances by the wastewater treatment
facility. The revised discharge limit for specified substances shall
be derived in accordance with federal law.
C.
Upon application by a Class III user, the Authority shall adjust
any limitation on substances specified in the applicable pretreatment
standards to consider factors relating to such person which are fundamentally
different from the factors considered by the EPA during the development
of the pretreatment standard. Requests for and determinations of a
fundamentally different adjustment shall be in accordance with federal
law.
D.
The Authority shall notify any Class III user affected by the provisions
of this section and establish an enforceable compliance schedule for
each.
Nothing in this article shall be construed as preventing any
special agreement or arrangement between the Authority and any user
of the wastewater facilities whereby wastewater of unusual strength
or character is accepted into the system and specially treated subject
to any payments or user charges as may be applicable.
The conservation of water and energy shall be encouraged by
the Authority. In establishing discharge restrictions upon industrial
users, the Authority shall take into account already implemented or
planned conservation steps revealed by the Class III user. Upon request
of the Authority, each industrial user will pro-vide the Authority
with pertinent information showing that the quantities of substances
or pollutants have not been or will be increased as a result of the
conservation steps. Upon such a showing to the satisfaction of the
Authority, he shall make adjustments to discharge restrictions, which
have been based on concentrations, to reflect the conservation steps.
