This chapter may be cited as the "Sewer System Ordinance of
the Township of Pequannock."
[Amended 3-10-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-03]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Denotes biochemical oxygen demand and means the quantity
of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter,
under standard laboratory procedure, in five days at 20° C., expressed
in parts per million by weight.
The Township Engineer or his authorized deputy, inspector,
agent or representative.
All land along the Passaic or Pompton River, or any tributaries
thereof, which is subject to surface flooding.
Includes, severally and collectively, garbage, offal and
swill. It includes, but not by way of limitation, solid waste resulting
from the preparation, cooking, dispensing or consumption of food or
from the handling, storage and sale of vegetables and other produce.
The Township Health Officer or his authorized deputy, inspector,
agent or representative.
The piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge
from soil and waste pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys
it to the cleanout at the street property line.
Refers to a subsurface sewage disposal system designed and
constructed to treat sewage in a manner that will retain most of the
settleable solids in a watertight tank and to discharge the liquid
portion to an adequate disposal area.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes distinct from
sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body or surface water or groundwater.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
A sanitary sewer system not owned or controlled by the Township.
A sanitary sewer system owned or controlled by the Township.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface
water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
The extension of the house service connection from the cleanout
at the street property line to the street sewer.
The division of the Pequannock Township Department of Public
Works responsible for construction, engineering and maintenance of
the Township sewer utility.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
goods that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
street sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface water and drainage
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
Solids that float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs, continuously or
intermittently.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit
to be deposited in an insanitary manner, upon public or private property
within the Township, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other
objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
or under the jurisdiction of the Township any sanitary sewage, industrial
wastes or other polluted material, unless suitable treatment is provided
in accordance with the requirements of this chapter, hereinafter set
forth.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original § 152.01.050 of the 1997
Code, which immediately followed this section, was repealed by Ord.
No. 2018-17.
