This chapter requires all owners of nonresidential
potable and nonpotable wells within the Township to test their water
annually for certain toxic chemicals and report the laboratory test
results to the Township Board of Health and also regulates the construction
and certification of all new potable water wells. The regulations
provided in this chapter are intended to:
A. Protect the health
of consumers of well water in the Township of Union.
B. Provide information
to enable the community to monitor groundwater quality.
C. Assure that all
new potable water wells meet certain construction and water quality
standards.
The words, terms or phrases listed below, for
the purpose of this chapter, shall be defined and interpreted as follows:
CERTIFIED LABORATORY
A laboratory certified by the New Jersey State Department
of Environmental Protection (pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:18) to conduct
testing for individual hazardous contaminants.
NONPOTABLE WATER WELL
Any well that is not used for potable water purposes. Examples
of nonpotable wells include water used for cooling, processing, irrigating
and other uses.
NONRESIDENTIAL WELL
A well which is not used exclusively to provide water for
domestic purposes; a water supply system from which potable water
is supplied to consumers, including employees, members, guests or
the public at large. Examples of nonresidential water supplies include
commercial offices, industrial buildings, schools, commercial shops
and retail stores, hotels, motels, trailer camps, food establishments,
gasoline service stations, day-care facilities, houses of worship,
boarding and rooming homes, clubhouses, camps of all types, health-care
institutions and others.
PITLESS WELL ADAPTER
A device fabricated at the job site designed for attachment
to one or more openings through a well casing and so constructed as
to prevent the entry of contamination into the well or potable water,
conduct water from the well, protect the water from freezing or extremes
of temperature and provide access to water system components within
the well.
PITLESS WELL UNIT
A preassembled device which extends the upper end of a well
casing to above grade, provided with a pitless well cap and so constructed
as to prevent the entry of contamination into the well or potable
water, conduct water from the well, protect the water from freezing
or extremes of temperature and provide access to water system components
within the well.
All tests shall be performed by a laboratory
that is certified by the State of New Jersey.
The laboratory technique to be used will be
the "purge and trap" method or any other method deemed acceptable
by the appropriate Department of Environmental Protection agency.
No water well, regardless of use, shall be located
or constructed in the Township of Union until a permit has been issued
by the appropriate Department of Environmental Protection agency and
approved by the local Board of Health.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 550, General
Provisions, Board of Health, Art. I)]
All potable water wells shall be constructed
in strict compliance with state regulations as set forth and known
as "Standards for the Construction of Public Noncommunity Water Systems
and Nonpublic Water Systems" (N.J.A.C. 7:10-12.1 through 7:10-12.43
inclusive).
A pitless adapter or pitless unit shall be provided
on every new potable water well constructed.
No potable water well shall be placed in service
until the Board of Health is issued a written certificate of approval
that the well water complies with state and federal water quality
standards.
Any person who violates any provision of this
chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a penalty of
not more than $500. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute
an additional, separate and distinct offense.