[R.O. 1966 C.S. § 21:1-2; Ord. 6 S+FS, 8-3-1994; Ord. 6 S+FH, 5-17-2006; Ord. 6 S+FL, 5-17-2006]
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words, phrases and abbreviations shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them in this section. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future and words used in the singular number include the plural. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
Shall mean the quantity of oxygen utilized in a biochemical oxidation of organic matter. "BOD" is determined through standard laboratory procedure, as specified in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, and expressed in parts per million.
Shall mean a sewer or drain extending from a structure to a public sewer connection lateral or interceptor sewer. Unless otherwise established by a binding, written arrangement involving the City and the property owner, maintenance of the building sewer shall be the responsibility of the property owner. Maintenance of the public sewer shall be the responsibility of the City. In cases where a public sewer easement traverses private property, maintenance of the entire length of the building sewer, from the public sewer to the structure, shall be the responsibility of the property owner.
Shall mean a measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portion of the organic matter in a sample that is susceptible to oxidation by a strong chemical oxident. "COD" is determined by standard laboratory procedure, as specified in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, and expressed in parts per million.
Shall mean the City of Newark, New Jersey.
Shall mean a sewer that conveys sanitary and/or industrial wastes at all times, and also transports storm runoff during wet weather as designed.
Shall mean a fee established for the right and privilege to connect to the water or sewer system for the first time or to enlarge the size of the connection. This does not apply to fire service water lines connected to the public water main. A connection fee is separate from and in addition to the tapping fee, meter fee, and the cost of the physical installation of the water service line for water services and the cost of the physical installation of the sewer lateral for sewer services.
Shall mean a department of the Newark municipal government.
Shall mean the head of a department duly appointed by the City. The term "director" includes any person authorized by the director to operate as his or her representative.
Shall mean a division of the Department of Water and Sewer Utilities.
Shall mean the waste and wastewater from humans or household operations.
See "Sanitary waste."
Shall mean oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater through treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of "floatable oil" if it is properly pretreated such that the discharged wastewater does not interfere with the wastewater facilities.
Shall mean the electro-negative metals with a density greater than five grams per cubic centimeter, including but not limited to lead, chromium, mercury, nickel, and zinc, plus the nonmetallic element arsenic.
Shall mean any physical or nonphysical connection that discharges domestic sewage, non-contact cooling water, process wastewater, or other industrial wastes (other than stormwater) to the municipal separate storm sewer system operated by the City of Newark, unless that discharge is authorized under a NJPDES permit other than the Tier A Municipal Stormwater General Permit (NJPDES Permit Number NJ0141852). Nonphysical connections may include, but are not limited to, leaks, flows, or overflows into the municipal storm sewer system.
Shall mean a charge to industrial users based on their use of municipal, JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM wastewater facilities to repay the capital cost outlay of the Federal share given to the City, JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM under the provisions of applicable Federal law allocable to the treatment of the wastes from industrial users.
Shall mean any non-governmental user of municipal JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM wastewater facilities identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual (1972), as amended and supplemented under "Divisions A, B, D, E, or I." A user may be exempt from the category of industrial user if it is determined that it introduces primarily segregated sanitary wastes.
Shall mean any nondomestic waste, including, but not limited to, those pollutants regulated under Section 307(a), (b), or (c) of the Federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317(a), (b), or (c)).
Shall mean the water discharged into sewers from sources of surface, ground, or unpolluted water, including but not limited to roof downspouts, foundation drains, cellar, yard, and area drains, cooling water discharges, drains from springs and swamps, catch basins, storm water, surface runoff, street wash water, or groundwater drainage.
Shall mean the fee to inspection the physical connection to the sewer line or water main when the physical connection was not made or performed by the City.
Shall mean a sewer whose major purpose is the conveyance of wastewater from lateral sewers to a treatment facility. Where conditions warrant, the direct connection of building sewers (and, in the case of combined systems, the direct connection of separate storm drains) to interceptor sewers may be permitted.
Shall mean the Joint Meeting of Essex and Union Counties.
Shall mean a sewer whose major purpose is the transportation of wastewater from building sewers (and, in the case of combined systems, the transportation of inflow from separate storm drains) to an interceptor sewer.
Shall mean an industrial user of municipal, JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM wastewater facilities that:(a) has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average work day; (b) has in its waste a toxic waste in toxic amounts; or (c) is found by USEPA, NJDEP, JMEUC, PVSC, SRJM, or the City to have a significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on municipal, JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM wastewater facilities or upon the quality of effluent from these wastewater facilities.
Shall mean oils or grease derived from petroleum, as distinct from oils and grease derived from animal or vegetable sources.
Shall mean an industrial user of municipal, JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM wastewater facilities that does not meet the definition of a major industry.
Shall mean pertaining to the City of Newark.
Shall mean a conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, manmade channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated by the City of Newark or other public body, and is designated and used for collecting and conveying storm water. MS4s do not include combined sewer systems, which are sewer systems that are designed to carry sanitary sewage at all times and to collect and transport stormwater from streets and other sources.
Shall mean any outlet, including storm drains and combined sewer overflows that discharges to a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground-water, including the Passaic River, Elizabeth River, Newark Bay, or any of their tributaries.
Shall mean New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Shall mean 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.
Shall mean water used to reduce temperature for the purpose of cooling. Such waters do not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product (other than heat) or finished product. Non-contact cooling water may, however, contain algaecides, or biocides to control fouling of equipment such as heat exchanges, and/or corrosion inhibitors.
Shall mean any mobile vehicle, piece of equipment or appurtenance thereof that is utilized in the discharge of waste or wastewater to any sewer or natural outlet. The term includes, but is not limited to, tank trucks and dump trucks as well as associated equipment and appurtenances. Fixed, permanent or semipermanent equipment is excluded from the category of nonstationary source, and is regulated elsewhere in this Title.
Shall mean National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and successors thereto (i.e. New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System).
Shall mean individual, firm, company, partnership, society, association, corporation (public or private), or group, including heirs, executors, administrators or assigns.
Shall mean the reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water has a pH value of 7 (a hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7). Lower pH's are acid, higher pH's are alkaline.
Shall mean treatment given to industrial waste prior to its direct or indirect discharge to municipal, JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM wastewater facilities; industries use pretreatment to remove illegal and/or undesirable waste constituents, or to reduce the strength of waste prior to discharge to publicly owned wastewater facilities.
Shall mean a sewer for which a person other than a public agency is responsible, as distinct from a public sewer.
Shall mean any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, byproduct, or waste product. Process wastewater includes, but is not limited to, leachate and cooling water other than non-contact cooling water.
Shall mean, with respect to Section 32:2-7, and consist of all storm drainage and sanitary sewerage facilities associated with an individual, municipally-approved building permit or Zoning Board approval.
Shall mean a sewer for which a governmental agency, public utility, or a municipality is responsible.
Shall mean Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
Shall mean waste derived principally from dwellings, office buildings, and sanitary conveniences. When segregated from industrial wastes, it may come from industrial plants or commercial enterprises.
Shall mean a sewer that carries liquid and waterborne sanitary and industrial wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm, and surface waters that are not intentionally admitted.
Shall mean a drain or sewer designed to convey storm runoff, groundwater, or unpolluted water from any source to a combined sewer, natural outlet, or body of water; a separate storm drain is not intended to convey inadequately treated sanitary or industrial waste at any time.
Shall mean the spent water of a community; the preferred term is wastewater.
Shall mean a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
See "Wastewater facilities."
Shall mean any discharge of water or wastewater during a period greater than 15 minutes that, in concentration of any constituent or in quantity of flow, is greater than five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow registered during normal operation.
Shall mean Second River Joint Meeting (Union Outlet Sewer).
Shall mean any water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow) that runs off the lands surface, is transmitted to the subsurface, is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage facilities, or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
Shall mean a measurement of suspended solids, and/or BOD, and/or COD, and/or any other parameter determined by the City, JMEUC, PVSC or SRJM as a fair indicator of the relative use, other than volumetric, of municipal, JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM wastewater facilities by industrial wastes.
Shall mean matter that is suspended in water, wastewater, or other liquids, and is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in the latest edition of Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater, and referred to as nonfilterable residue.
Shall mean the fee established by the Director of Water and Sewer Utilities for the physical connection to the sewer line or water line.
Defined by USEPA in 40 CFR 129 [38 F.R. 24342, 9-7-1973] and any superseding revisions.
Shall mean the partial or complete removal of certain materials from wastewater; the adequacy of treatment is determined by the governmental authority having jurisdiction.
Shall mean water of a quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards, and would not be benefited by discharge to the wastewater facilities provided.
Shall mean United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Shall mean a charge to users of public wastewater facilities consisting of two parts. The first part is established by JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM based on volume and where applicable, on strength and/or flow rate to pay for the use of JMEUC, PVSC, or SRJM wastewater facilities. The second part is established by the City to pay for the use of the municipal wastewater facilities and to pay the administrative costs of billing and collection of the user charge.
Shall mean the spent water of a community; from the standpoint of source, wastewater may be a combination of the liquid and waterborne wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface, or storm water that may be present.
Shall mean the structures, equipment and processes required to collect, convey and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluents.