All residential, commercial and industrial properties
situated within the Borough of Lavallette and abutting on any street,
alley or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the
future be located, a public sanitary sewer are hereby required, at
the owner's expense, to connect such facilities directly to the public
sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of these rules and
regulations, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet of
the property line. Connections shall be made within 90 days after
the official notice from the Borough of Lavallette. The requirement
of sewer connection includes the West Point Island and Westmont Shores
sections of Lavallette, although those areas are not currently served
by the Borough of Lavallette Sewer Utility and the required connection
is to those public sanitary sewer lines currently owned and maintained
by the Dover Municipal Utilities Authority.
No person(s) shall discharge, cause or allow to be discharged, either intentionally or through infiltration into the lateral connection line (see §
52-15), any of the following described waters and wastes into any public sewer:
A. Individual sewage disposal systems. Discharges from
any cesspool, septic tank or other individual sanitary disposal system.
B. Rainwater or groundwater. Discharges from roof downspouts,
foundation rains, sump pumps, areaway drains or other sources of surface
runoff or groundwater.
C. Unpolluted water. Unpolluted waters, such as stormwater,
groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, or cooling water. Stormwater
runoff, subsurface drainage or cooling water which may be polluted
at specific times may be discharged to the sanitary sewer by individual
written permission of the Borough for each occasion, and then only
with provision for metering said flow, and specific time limits of
less than 30 days.
D. Acidic or alkaline materials. Any waters or wastes
having a pH lower than 5.5, or higher than 9.0, or having any other
corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures,
equipment or personnel of the wastewater works.
E. Flammable or explosive materials. Any gasoline, benzene,
naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or
gas.
F. Solid or viscous materials. Solid or viscous substances
in such quantities or of such size as to be capable of causing obstruction
to the flow in sewers of other interference with the proper operations
of the wastewater facilities, such as, but not limited to: ashes,
bones, cinders, entrails, feathers, glass, grease, unground garbage,
hair or fleshings, metal, milk containers, etc., either whole or disintegrated,
mud, paper dishes, paunch manure, plastics, rags, sand, shavings,
shells, straw, tar, whole blood, wool.
G. Toxic or poisonous materials. Any waters containing
toxic or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity,
either singly or by interactions with other wastes, to injure or interfere
with any waste treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or
animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving
waters of the wastewater treatment plant.
H. Steam exhausts. Steam exhausts or blowoff from boilers
or from steam heating plants. Any such exhaust or blowoff shall in
every case discharge into a tank of suitable size from which a trapped
and vented overflow may lead to the sewer.
I. Refrigerating systems. Refrigeration, cooling system
or air conditioning water.
J. Vehicle wash water. No washings from vehicles of any
type without first passing through an appropriately designed and approved
trap or sedimentation chamber to remove excess solids, oil, grease,
etc.
K. Radioactive wastes or isotopes. Any radioactive wastes
or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits
imposed upon the Borough by state or federal regulations.
If any water or wastes are discharged or are
proposed to be discharged to the public sewer, which waters or wastes
contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated above,
and which, in the judgment of the Borough, may have a deleterious
effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment or receiving
waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a
public nuisance, the Borough may:
A. Refuse to accept the waters.
B. Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition before
discharge to the public sewer; that is, reduce the biochemical oxygen
demand to parts per million and the suspended solids to parts per
million by weight.
C. Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge.
D. Require payment to cover the added cost of handling the wastes not covered by existing sewer charges (see Article
V, Rate Schedule) or added charges imposed by the County Utilities Authority.