[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of Long Beach 10-6-2025 by Ord. No. 25-15C. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged through an illicit connection to the municipal separate storm system any domestic sewage, noncontact cooling water, process wastewater, or other industrial waste. Only stormwater shall be permitted to be discharged through the municipal separate storm system.
B. 
The spilling, dumping, or disposal of materials other than stormwater to the municipal separate storm sewer system is prohibited. The spilling, dumping, or disposal of materials other than stormwater in such a manner as to cause the discharge of pollutants to the municipal separate storm system is also prohibited.
C. 
The following shall be considered exceptions to the regulations set forth herein.
(1) 
Waterline flushing and discharges from potable water sources.
(2) 
Uncontaminated groundwater (e.g., infiltration, crawl space or basement sump pumps, foundation or footing drains, rising groundwaters).
(3) 
Air-conditioning condensate (excluding contact and noncontact cooling water.
(4) 
Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn watering runoff).
(5) 
Flows from springs, riparian habitats and wetlands, water reservoir discharges, and diverted stream flows.
(6) 
Residential car washing water and residential swimming pool discharges.
(7) 
Sidewalk, driveway, and street wash water.
(8) 
Flows from firefighting activities.
(9) 
Flows from rinsing of the following equipment with clean water as follows.
(a) 
Beach maintenance equipment immediately following its use for the intended purposes.
(b) 
Equipment used in the application of salt and deicing materials immediately following salt and deicing material applications. Prior to rinsing with clean water, all residual salt and deicing materials must be removed from equipment and vehicles to the maximum extent practicable using dry cleaning methods (e.g., shoveling and sweeping). Recovered materials are to be returned to storage for reuse or property discarded.
A. 
Covering of containers and dumpsters; prevention of leaks and discharges.
(1) 
Any person who controls, whether owned, leased, or operated, a refuse container or dumpster must ensure that such container or dumpsters covered at all times and shall prevent refuse from spilling out or overflowing.
(2) 
Any person who owns, leases, or otherwise uses a refuse container or dumpster must ensure that such container or dumpster does not leak or otherwise discharge fluids, semi-fluids, or solids to the municipal separate sewer system.
B. 
Exempt containers. The following refuse containers are exempt from the requirements set forth above in Subsection A.
(1) 
Permitted temporary demolition containers.
(2) 
Litter receptacles other than dumpsters or other bulk containers.
(3) 
Individual homeowner trash and recycling containers.
(4) 
Refuse containers at facilities authorized to discharge stormwater under a valid NJDEP permit.
C. 
Large bulky items such as furniture, bound carpet and padding, white goods, and the like placed curbside for authorized bulk pickup are exempt from the requirements of this Subsection A.
A. 
No person in control of private property, with the exception of a residential lot containing one single-family residence, shall authorize the repaving, repairing, resurfacing, reconstructing, or altering any surface that is in direct contact with an existing storm drain inlet on that property unless the storm drain inlet:
(1) 
Already meets the design standard set forth below in Subsection B to control passage of solid and floatable materials; or
(2) 
Is retrofitted or replaced to meet the standard set forth below in Subsection B prior to the completion of the project.
The prohibited content set forth herein shall not apply to the repair of individual potholes. The term resurfacing shall include, inter alia, the top coating or chip resealing with asphalt emulsion or a thin base of hot bitumen.
B. 
Design standards. Storm drain inlets as identified in Subsection A above shall comply with the following standards to control passage of solid and floatable materials through storm drain inlets.
(1) 
Design engineers shall use either of the following grates whenever they use a grate in pavement or another ground surface to collect stormwater from that surface and direct it into a storm drain or surface water body under the grate:
(a) 
The New Jersey Department of Transportation ("NJDOT") bicycle-safe grate which his described in the NJDOT Bicycle Compatible Roadways and Bikeways Planning and Design Guidelines; or
(b) 
A different grate if each individual clear space in that grate has an area of no more than seven square inches or is no greater than 0.5 inches across the smallest dimension. By way of illustration, grates subject to this standard include grates in grate inlets, grates subject (non-curb-opening portion) of combination inlets, grates on storm sewer manholes, ditch grates, trench grates, and grates of spacer bars in slotted drains.
(2) 
Whenever design engineers use a curb-opening inlet, all the clear spaces in that curb opening, whether there be one or more clear spaces, shall have an area of no more that seven square inches or be no greater than two inches across the smallest dimension.
(3) 
The design standards hereinabove set forth in Subsection B(1) and (2) shall not apply to the following.
(a) 
Where the Municipal Engineer agrees that this standard would cause inadequate hydrologic performance that could not practicably be overcome by using additional or larger storm drain inlets that meet these standards.
(b) 
Where flows are conveyed through any device such as the end of a pipe netting facility, manufactured treatment device, or catch basis hood that is designed at a minimum to prevent delivery of all solid and floatable materials that could not pass through one of the following:
[1] 
A rectangular space 4 5/8 inches long and 1 1/2 inches wide. This option shall not apply for out fall netting facilities.
[2] 
A bar screen having a bar spacing of 0.5 inches.
(c) 
Where flows are conveyed through a trash rack that has parallel bars with one-inch spacing between the bars.
(d) 
Where the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection determines pursuant to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places Rules that action to meet this standard is an undertaking that constitutes an encroachment or will damage or destroy the New Jersey Register-listed historic property.
Any person who erects, constructs, alters, repairs, converts, maintains, or uses any building structure, or land in violation of this chapter or otherwise commits a violation of this chapter shall be subject to the general penalty provisions of Chapter 1, Art. III.