As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The Borough of Dunellen.
Any establishment or facility engaged in preparing, processing
or serving food for a commercial or institutional purpose, or a not-for-profit
organization, in a manner likely to result in the discharge of grease,
fats or oils to the sewer system, including but not limited to a restaurant,
cafeteria, institutional kitchen or other establishment or facility
which:
Is involved in the preparation of food by means of cooking (frying,
grilling, sautéing, rotisserie cooking, broiling, boiling,
blanching, roasting, poaching, searing, barbecuing or the like); and
Washes skillets, pots, pans, bowls, dishes, plates or other
equipment or utensils in water discharged to the sewer system.
Any material, but particularly biological lipids and mineral
hydrocarbons, recovered as a substance soluble in an organic extracting
solvent using an appropriate analytical method approved under 40 CFR
Part 136. It also includes other material extracted by the solvent
from an acidified sample and not volatilized during the extraction
procedure, as defined in federal regulations.
A watertight receptacle utilized by non-single-family generators
of liquid waste to intercept, collect and restrict the passage of
grease, oil and food particles into the sewer to which the receptacle
is directly or indirectly connected and to separate and retain grease
and food particles from the wastewater discharged by a facility.
The representative of the Borough duly authorized to inspect
the construction, operation and/or maintenance of a sewer system or
any part thereof.
The pipe in the street or easement of the Borough, used for
the conveying of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes for treatment
and disposal.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit
to be deposited in an unsanitary manner upon public or private property
within the Borough of Dunellen, or in any area under the jurisdiction
of said Borough, any human or animal excrement, grease, garbage or
other objectionable waste, including industrial waste.
A.
All restaurants, cafeterias, institutional kitchens or other food
establishment or facility discharging grease, fats, wax, or oils such
that may be detrimental to the sewer system shall use a grease trap.
A garbage grinder shall not be used when a grease trap is required.
B.
The grease trap shall be installed and used in accordance with the
requirements set forth in the Plumbing Subcode.
C.
Grease traps utilized by restaurants, cafeterias, institutional kitchens
and other facilities shall be inspected annually, in addition to such
other reasonable times as are deemed necessary, by any of the following
Borough of Dunellen personnel: Construction Officer, Code Enforcement
Officer, Supervisor or member of the Department of Public Works, Dunellen's
Sewer Operator, and any representative of the Middlesex County Board
of Health.
D.
All restaurants, cafeterias, institutional kitchens and other facilities
using a grease trap shall provide copies of a certification to the
Dunellen Municipal Clerk, a minimum of three certifications per year,
from a service company that the grease traps have been properly installed,
are properly maintained and are functioning for their intended purposes.
E.
In addition to the Borough's other remedies, should the Borough or its agents incur costs to clean the sewer laterals or sewer lines in the vicinity of the restaurant, cafeteria, institutional kitchen or other facility due to grease, fats and/or oils, and/or in otherwise responding to a backup caused by such grease, fat and/or oils, whether or not the restaurant, cafeteria, institutional kitchen or other facility has a grease trap, the owner and operator of the offending restaurant, cafeteria, institutional kitchen or other facility, irrespective of its compliance or noncompliance with the requirements of the Plumbing Subcode Official or Subsection D above, shall be required to reimburse the Borough and its agents for all such costs.
F.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any of the following
described waters or wastes to any public sewer:
(1)
Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than 150° F.
(2)
Any water or waste which may contain more than 100 parts per 1,000,000,
by weight, of fat, oil or grease.
(3)
Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive
liquid, solid or gas.
(4)
Any ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, metal shavings, glass, rags,
feathers, tar, plastics, wood or any other solid or viscous substance
capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers or other interference
with the proper operation of the sewage works.
(5)
Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 6.0 or higher than 9.0
or having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or
hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage works.
(6)
Any waters or wastes containing a toxic or poisonous substance in
sufficient quantity to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment
process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals or create any hazard
in the receiving waters of the sewage treatment plant.
(7)
Any waters or wastes containing suspended solids of such character
and quantity that unusual attention or expense is required to handle
such materials at the sewage treatment plant.
(8)
Any noxious or malodorous gas or substance capable of creating a
public nuisance.
(9)
Heat in amounts which will inhibit biological activity in the publicly
owned treatment works, resulting in interference with its proper operation
and in no case heat in such quantities that the temperature of the
water at the publicly owned treatment works treatment plant exceeds
104° F. unless the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection,
upon request of the publicly owned treatment works, approves alternate
temperature limits.
G.
Failure to comply with the requirements of this article shall subject
the owner and operator to the penalty provisions of the Code of the
Borough of Dunellen.
