As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly
appears from the context, the following words shall have the following
meanings:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
The Borough of Mendham, in the County of Morris and State
of New Jersey.
Any building or structure heretofore or hereafter constructed
and designed and used for dwelling purposes, either temporary or permanent,
or nonresidential use or occupancy by a person or persons, or industrial,
warehouse, and manufacturing uses.
The extension from the building drain to the branch connection
at the Borough sewage collection system or another place of disposal.
The Chairperson of the Borough Council's Public Works and
Utilities Committee.
Professional, business, office, warehouses, retail, commercial,
governmental, religious or charitable uses or other nonindustrial
uses.
When used with respect to a building constructed prior to
the date of initial operation of part of any sewerage system in the
Borough owned and operated by the Borough and with respect to a sewer
available to serve said building, the 90th day next ensuing after
said date of initial operation, and when used with respect to a building
constructed after the date of initial operation of a part of any sewerage
system owned or operated by the Borough and with respect to a sewer
available to serve said building, the 48th day after the date of completion
of construction or availability, or the date of initial occupancy
of said building, whichever of said dates shall be earlier in point
of time.
Waste and wastewater from humans or household operations.
An equivalent dwelling unit (EDU) is the unit of measure
by which sewerage systems demand on the Borough sewerage system is
calculated and is defined as 300 gallons per day. A residential dwelling
unit is one equivalent dwelling unit (EDU). Other uses have a number
of EDUs based on the NJDEP design flow for the use divided by 300
gpd, rounded to the nearest whole number. An EDU is the unit of measure
by which various fees are calculated for each Borough Sewer Utility
user.[1]
The cost herein imposed per 1,000 cubic feet of water usage
in excess of 2,500 cubic feet of water usage per quarter for each
equivalent dwelling unit (EDU) computed with respect to such Borough
Sewer Utility user.
A flat charge for the Borough sewer utility service or connection
to the Borough sewerage system.
Solid waste from the preparation, cooking, dispensing and
disposal of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
Nondomestic waste and wastewater from manufacturing or chemical
processes.
Use for or in a manufacturing, mining or chemical process
or use in the operation of factories, processing plants, and similar
sites.
The cost herein imposed for capital improvement projects,
major maintenance and upgrades required to maintain operations and
meet permit requirements for the sewerage system for each equivalent
dwelling unit (EDU) per Borough Sewer Utility user.
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
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.
Each building or separate space therein designed for or used
for different professional, business, commercial, industrial, governmental,
religious or charitable use or purpose, without regard to the number
of building sewer or lateral connections from such buildings to the
Borough sewerage system.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in milligrams per liter of solution.
Parts per million.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing,
and disposal of food that have been shredded to such a degree that
all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in the Borough sewage collection system sewers, with no
particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
Cost imposed for the Borough sewer utility service per cubic
feet of water usage.
Each building or separate space therein designed for or used
as a residence or abode without regard to the number of building sewer
or lateral connections from such building to the Borough sewerage
system.
The cost herein imposed for the use and services of the Borough
sewerage system for each residential user over the age of 65 whose
annual income is $25,000 or less, not including social security income.
The section of private, underground building sewer or lateral
pipe connecting the property's wastewater plumbing to the sewage collection
system.
The cost herein imposed for the utilization of the sewerage
system for each Borough Sewer Utility user.
The part of the Borough sewerage system, which includes all
sanitary sewers, trunks or mains, interceptors, laterals, tributaries,
branches, manholes, pumping stations, force mains and all other sewer
appurtenances, either publicly or privately owned, which carry sewage
to the borough water reclamation facility.
Any used water and added waste that is carried away by drains
and sewers, including waste from humans, households, commercial establishments,
industries, and stormwater runoff, that are discharged to or otherwise
enter a treatment works.
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.
Any sewer, trunk or main or interceptor designed and used
for the collection or conveyance of sewage.
The land area identified in the Morris County area-wide Water
Quality Management Plan (WQMP) from which wastewater generated is
conveyed to, or has been determined to be eligible, in accordance
with N.J.A.C. 7:15, Water Quality Management Planning, to pursue a
permit to connect to a domestic treatment works or industrial treatment
works. Inclusion in a sewer service area does not guarantee that capacity
exists or will exist to provide treatment for all flow from that area.
The Borough's system and infrastructure of collecting, treating
and disposal of 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 15 minutes more than five times
the average twenty-four-hour concentration of flows during normal
operation.
The Superintendent of the Water Reclamation Department as
duly appointed by the Borough.
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.
A large sewer line that receives sewage from many tributary
branches and sewer lines and serves as an outlet for a large territory
or is used to feed an intercepting sewer.
[1]
Editor's Note: A duplicative definition of "equivalent dwelling
unit (EDU)," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed
11-23-2020 by Ord. No. 13-2020.
