Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms, as used in these rules and regulations, shall have the meanings hereinafter designated:
BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20º C., expressed in milligrams per liter. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
CHLORINE DEMAND The quantity of chlorine absorbed by a wastewater, allowing a residual of 0.1 parts per million by weight after 30 minutes of contact, expressed in milligrams per liter. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
CMCMUA or COUNTY AUTHORITY The Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority, a public body politic and corporate of the State of New Jersey, which may include a duly appointed deputy, agent, official or representative.
COD (chemical oxygen demand) The quantity of oxygen required for the chemical oxidation of organic matter in a liquid, expressed in milligrams per liter. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
COMPANY Any corporation or business enterprise formed under the laws of the State of New Jersey or any other state.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria, oil and grease and such additional pollutants as are now or may be in the future specified and controlled in the County Authority's applicable NPDES/NJPDES permit for its wastewater treatment plant, where said plant has been designed and used to stabilize, reduce or remove such pollutants.
COOLING WATER The water discharged from any use, such as air-conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, during which the only pollutant added to the water is heat.
COUNTY AUTHORITY'S SYSTEM All facilities constructed or acquired, owned and operated by the Cape May County Municipal Utilities Authority for the purpose of conveying, treating and disposing of wastewater, including but not limited to trunk and interceptor sewers, pumping stations and force mains, flow meters and meter chambers and the County Authority treatment plant.
CWA The Federal Clean Water Act of 1977, as amended.
DOMESTIC WASTE Liquid wastes or liquid borne waste resulting from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling of food and/or containing human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
EQUIVALENT UNIT The equivalent wastewater flow from one single-family dwelling unit and shall be applied to industrial, commercial and other users at an average rate of 225 gallons per day.
EXCESS INERT SUSPENDED SOLIDS The quantity of inert, nonvolatile suspended solids over and above that normally found in domestic waste, expressed in milligrams per liter. For purposes of surcharge calculations, normal domestic sewage suspended solids shall be taken as sixty-percent volatile and forty-percent inert.
FWPCAA The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972.
GARBAGE Solid wastes resulting from the domestic or commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER Any nonresidential user or users identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
(1) Division A, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
(3) Division D, Manufacturing.
(4) Division E, Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services.
INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER The wastewater resulting from the processes employed by an industrial or commercial user when any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, is discharged into a treatment works.
INHIBITORY TOXICITY Any demonstrable interference by a substance on the rate of general metabolism (including rate of reproduction) of living organisms.
INTERFERENCE Inhibiting or disrupting of the CMCMUA treatment works system or its treatment process so as to contribute to or cause a violation of any condition of its state or federal permit under which the County Authority operates; discharging industrial process wastewater which, in combination with existing domestic flows, are of such volume and/or strength as to exceed the domestic treatment process design capacity; or preventing the use or disposal of sludge produced by the CMCMUA treatment works in accordance with Section 405 of the Federal Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.) and the New Jersey Guidelines for the Utilization and Disposal of Municipal and Industrial Sludges and Septage or any regulations or criteria or guidelines developed pursuant to the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. § 3251 et seq.), the Federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.) and the Federal Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.).
NJDEP The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
PERSON Any customer, individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation, association, group or society and includes the State of New Jersey and agencies, districts, commissions and political subdivisions created by or pursuant to state law.
pH The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen ions in moles per liter of solution.
PRETREATMENT The application of physical, chemical and biological wastewater treatment processes to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the pollutant properties in a wastewater prior to discharging such wastewater into the regional authority's system.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS All applicable federal rules and regulations implementing Section 307 of the Act (CWA), as well as any nonconflicting state or County Authority standards. In cases of conflicting standards or regulations, the more stringent thereof shall be applied.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE 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 sanitary sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS or POTW A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Federal Act (33 U.S.C. § 1292). For the purposes of these sewer use rules and regulations, "POTW" shall also include local collection systems of participants or other sewers that convey wastewaters to the "POTW."
SANITARY SEWER 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 waters that are not admitted intentionally.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER Any industrial user who discharges into the treatment works industrial wastewater which either exceeds 25,000 gallons per day, exceeds the mass equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of waste based upon a BOD of 300 milligrams per liter, a COD of 500 milligrams per liter, or suspended solids of 300 milligrams per liter or contributes 5% or more of the daily mass loading of any of the pollutants listed in Table 1.
SLUG Any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste 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 flows during normal operation.
STORMWATER Any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SURCHARGE That charge assessed against a user whose waste discharge contains specified constituents which exceed specified limits and is imposed by the regional or County Authority as described herein.
TOWN or TOWNSHIP The Township of Middle, a public body politic and corporate of the State of New Jersey, which may include a duly appointed deputy, agent, official or representative.
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, wastewater or other liquids, expressed in milligrams per liter. The standard laboratory procedure shall be that found in the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
TOWNSHIP SYSTEM All facilities constructed or acquired, owned and operated by the Township of Middle's Sewer Utility, including but not limited to trunk and interceptor sewers, pumping stations and force mains, flow meters and meter chambers.
TOXIC POLLUTANT Those pollutants or combinations of pollutants including disease-causing agents which, after discharge into the environment in sufficient quantities and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation into any organism, either directly or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will, on the basis of information available to the County Authority, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions in reproduction, or physical deformation in such organisms or its offspring.
UNIT A dwelling unit or a portion of a structure normally occupied by a single family.
UNPOLLUTED WATER Water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited by the effluent standards in effect or water whose discharge will not cause any violation of receiving water quality standards.
USEPA The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
USER Any person who discharges or causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the Township's system.
USER CLASSIFICATION A classification of user based on the latest edition of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual prepared by the Office of Management and Budget.
WASTEWATER The liquid and water-carried industrial or domestic wastes from dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present, whether treated or untreated, which is discharged into or permitted to enter the Township's system.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes and sludge, as defined in POTW.