Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of the terms used in these rules and regulations shall be as follows:
Shall mean 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.
Shall mean that part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other wastewater drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.
Shall mean the extension from the building drain to the public sewer or the place of disposal.
Is a charge imposed upon the owner or occupant of property or premises to be connected to the Township's sanitary sewer system representing a fair payment toward the cost of the sewer system and calculated pursuant to Sewerage Authorities Law, N.J.S.A. 40:14A-8 and Municipal and County Utilities Authorities Law, N.J.S.A. 40:14B-22. The connection fee is an addition to the actual cost of the physical connection or "tapping fee" imposed pursuant to the rate schedules annexed to these rules and regulations.
Is a person, partnership, firm, corporation, governmental subdivision or agency receiving sewer service from premises, as hereinafter defined.
Shall mean the Township of Allamuchy Water and Sewer Utilities Department.
Shall mean a dwelling or structure normally occupied by a single family.
Shall mean the normal waterborne fluid wastes from residences, commercial establishments, institutions and industrial establishments, limited to the waste from kitchens, bathrooms, water closets, lavatories and laundries.
Shall mean an acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.
Shall mean discharge standards for compliance with National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) limits in effect for the Township of Allamuchy treatment plant discharge, or specific discharge standards for quality and possibly quantity of industrial effluent from individual industrial premises, as established by the Township.
Shall mean a unit of charge established by the Township, which is approximately equivalent to the average discharge from a single-family detached home in the Township of Allamuchy service area; the unit is not precise, but is based upon approximations of quantity and variability of discharge for various classes of system users.
Shall mean each plumbing unit including but not limited to sink, toilet, urinal, tub or shower.
Is oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. The wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if it is properly pre-treated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
Shall mean any fixture, pipe, or other drainage device located inside of a structure, which may be interconnected to the sanitary sewer system.
Is the reduction in peak rates of flow, through the use of detention storage facilities or equalization tanks.
Shall mean the animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.
See "service lateral."
Shall mean any discharge, excluding any discharges by municipal collection systems, into any domestic treatment works.
Shall mean any person or user, excluding municipal collection systems, who has an indirect discharge of primarily non-domestic pollutants including septage.
Shall mean the wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes or sewage.
Shall mean the licensee approved by the NJDEP, who is on-site a significant amount of time, although not necessarily full-time, and who has active involvement in and is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and effectiveness of the sewer system and who holds a license equal or superior to that required for the system.
Shall mean a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater.
Is permissive (see "shall").
Shall have the same definition as the term "domestic sewage."
Shall mean located outside the lot lines on the lot in question but within the property (of which the lot is a part) which is the subject of a development application or contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
Shall mean not located on the property which is the subject of a development application nor on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
Shall mean located on the lot(s) in question.
Shall mean located on the property which is the subject of a development application or on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
Shall mean any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.
Shall mean the logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Natural water, for example, has a pH value of 7.
Include the following:
A building or other structure under one roof owned or leased by one customer.
A combination of buildings owned or leased by one customer, in one common enclosure, occupied by one customer.
A building owned or leased by one customer having a number of apartments, offices, or lofts which are rented to tenants, using one or more halls and entrances in common.
A combination of buildings owned or leased by one customer, in one common enclosure, none of the individual buildings of which is adapted to separate ownership.
A cooperative apartment, condominium, townhouse or similar development served by one or more master meters for distribution of water to a greater number of unit owners or occupants.
A public building.
Shall mean the reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the system. The reduction or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or by other means except by dilution. Appropriate pretreatment technology includes control equipment, such as equalization tanks or facilities, for protection against surges or slug loadings that might interfere with or otherwise be incompatible with the system or treatment processes.
Shall mean the wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.
Shall mean a common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.
As referred to herein, are these entire "Rules and Regulations for Sewer Service" as the same may be amended or revised from time to time.
Shall mean a sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground- , storm- and surface water that are not admitted intentionally.
Shall mean that portion of the public sewer which extends from the main in the street or easement to the clean-out closest to the main on the lateral. (Also called house connection.)
Shall mean a residential, commercial, industrial or other unit of property to which sewer service is provided either by direct or indirect connection.
Is the spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
Shall mean a pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
Shall mean the plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by the Township for the purposes of sewage collection and treatment, including sewers, conduits, pipe lines, mains, pumping and ventilating stations, sewage treatment or disposal systems, plants and works, connections, and outfalls, compensating reservoirs, and other plants, structures, boats, conveyances, and other real and personal property, and rights therein, and appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection, treatment, purification or disposal in a sanitary manner of any sewage, liquid or solid wastes, soil or industrial wastes.
Is mandatory (see "may").
Shall mean any discharge of water or wastewater 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 or flow during normal operation and may adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.
Shall mean a drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source.
Shall mean total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater, or other liquids, and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater," of the American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C., and referred to as "non-filterable residue."
Shall mean a private, institutional or public swimming pool used for recreational purposes, including the restroom, cabanas, backwash or filtering facilities, or any appurtenances used in connection with the swimming pools which may have a sanitary waste discharge.
Shall mean to interfere with the sewer system in a manner that is harmful to the condition, operation, and maintenance of the sewer system.
Shall mean the Township of Allamuchy.
Is water of quality equal to or better than the effluent quality standards criteria in effect for the receiving water, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards.
Shall mean the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.
Shall mean the structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
Shall mean an arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution control plant."