This article prohibits the spilling, dumping, or disposal of materials other than stormwater to the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) operated by the Village of Ridgefield Park to protect the environment, public health, safety, and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for failure to comply.
[Adopted 12-10-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-14[1]]
For the purpose of this article, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations, shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use in the text of this article clearly demonstrates a different meaning. When consistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number, and words used in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated by the Village of Ridgefield Park or other public body, and is designed and used for collecting and conveying stormwater. 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.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow) that runs off the land's 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.
The spilling, dumping, or disposal of materials other than stormwater that causes the discharge of pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system operated by the Village of Ridgefield Park is prohibited.
A.
No person shall accumulate, dispose of or dump garbage, rubbish, waste, refuse, debris or any offensive material or chemical, industrial, flammable or cesspool waste or residue on any land or in any area within the Village except as otherwise provided in this article.
B.
No land or area shall be maintained, operated or used within the Village as a dumping area for the materials mentioned in § 214-8.1 except as otherwise provided in this article.
C.
The continued maintenance, operation or use for accumulation, dumping or disposal purposes regulated by this article, except as otherwise provided in this article, of any land used as a dump or dumping area on or prior to November 22, 1960, is hereby prohibited. Any land, area or section of land used as a dump or disposal area on or prior to November 22, 1960, shall be graded and leveled, and all garbage, rubbish, waste, refuse, debris or any offensive material or chemical, industrial, flammable or cesspool waste or residue dumped therein shall be covered with at least 24 inches of clean earthfill and shall at all times be kept so covered.
A.
Potable water line flushing and discharges from potable water sources, excluding the discharge of filter backwash and first flush water from potable well development/redevelopment activities utilizing chemicals in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:9D. The volume of first flush water, which is a minimum of three times the volume of the well water column, shall be handled and disposed of properly;
B.
Uncontaminated groundwater (e.g., infiltration, crawl space or basement sump pumps, foundation or footing drains, rising groundwaters);
C.
Air-conditioning condensate (excluding contact and noncontact cooling water, and industrial refrigerant condensate);
D.
Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn watering runoff);
E.
Flows from springs, riparian habitats, wetlands, water reservoir discharges and diverted stream flows;
F.
Residential car washing water and dechlorinated swimming pool discharges from single-family residential homes;
G.
Sidewalk, driveway, and street wash water;
H.
Flows from firefighting activities, including the washing of firefighting vehicles;
I.
Flows from clean water rinsing of beach maintenance equipment immediately following use and only if the equipment is used for its intended purpose;
J.
Rinsing of beach maintenance equipment is limited to exterior, undercarriage, and exposed parts and does not apply to engines or other enclosed machinery.
K.
Flows from clean water rinsing of equipment and vehicles used in the application of salt and deicing materials. Prior to rinsing, all equipment shall be cleaned using dry methods such as shoveling and sweeping. Recovered materials are to be returned to storage or properly discarded; and
L.
Rinsing of deicing equipment is limited to exterior, undercarriage, and exposed parts and does not apply to engines or other enclosed machinery.
A.
The owner of real property within the Village or the occupant thereof, with the consent, in writing, of the owner, may, for the purpose of filling or grading such property, dump and dispose on such property nonoffensive and nonputrescible material, fill, waste, refuse and debris, provided that the same shall not contain any animal or vegetable substance other than trees, brush or parts thereof, and provided further that, with the exception of earth and stone or rock fill, such material, waste, refuse or debris originated upon or was the result of operations, business, commercial or industrial activity carried on within such premises.
B.
Such material or substances shall be graded or leveled and completely covered with a layer of good, clean earth at the end of each thirty-day period after the commencement of such accumulation or dumping process, in such a manner as not to permit the finished elevation of such cover to extend above the top of the curbs of the streets or highways adjacent to the premises involved or above the mean elevation of the premises wherein the accumulation or dumping of such material or substance shall be so conducted during each intervening thirty-day period or so much thereof, as the operation may continue, so that it will not have an injurious or detrimental effect on nearby properties or the residents thereof.
Notwithstanding anything in this article to the contrary, the Board of Commissioners may create and maintain a Village dump, by resolution or ordinance, for the use of inhabitants and businesses situated in the Village for the disposal of ashes, garbage, rubbish, waste, refuse, debris and other materials. Such Village dump may be situated on either public or private lands and may be operated by the Board of Commissioners as a municipal facility or may be authorized to be operated under contract with and under the supervision of the Board of Commissioners.
The dumping of all ashes, garbage, rubbish, waste, refuse, debris and other materials at the Village dump shall be done in the place and manner directed by the person supervising the operation of such dump. No explosive or dangerous substances, no stumps of trees or logs of wood exceeding four feet in length or 10 inches in diameter, no large stones, pieces of broken concrete or metal or other material, no wrecked or discarded motor vehicles, machinery or parts thereof, no cumbersome material or substance of any kind shall be deposited, emptied or dumped on the Village dump or disposal area.
The Village dump shall not be used by any person unless such person shall first have received a permit, in writing, from the Board of Commissioners or its duly authorized representative for the use thereof.
This article shall be enforced by the Ridgefield Park Police Department.
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions of this article shall be subject to a fine no less than $100 and not to exceed $500 for each incident.