The purpose of this article is to provide terms
and definitions for the operation of the City's sewer system.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Director of the Division of Water Resources of the Department
of Environmental Protection for the State of New Jersey or his/her
authorized representative.
The Cumberland County Utilities Authority (CCUA).
Analyses by the CCUA containing concentrations not more than
the following:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure for five days
at 20º C., expressed in terms of weight (kilograms per day [kg/d])
and concentration (milligrams per liter [mg/l]).
A measure of the oxygen-consuming capacity of organic and
inorganic matter present in water or wastewater expressed as the amount
of oxygen consumed by a chemical oxidant in accordance with an approved
test procedure.
The difference between the amount of chlorine added to wastewater
and the amount of residual chlorine remaining at the end of a thirty-minute
contact period.
All sewer lines owned and operated by the Cumberland County
Utilities Authority discharging to intercepting sewers, pumping stations,
force mains, wastewater plants, and appurtenances thereto within the
Cohansey River Basin.
A wastewater containing surface or storm water.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solid, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria, oil and grease, and such additional pollutants
as are now or may be in the future specified as controlled in the
CCUA's NJPDES permit, where the POTW is designed to treat such pollutants
and, in fact, does treat such pollutants to the degree required by
the NJPDES permit.
A sample consisting of several portions collected from a
waste stream during a specific time period and combined to make a
representative sample.
Any water used for the purpose of carrying away excess heat
and which may contain biocides used to control biological growth or
additives to protect the system against corrosion, freezing, scaling
and the like.
The Director of the Division of Water and Sewer in the City
of Bridgeton.
[Amended 11-21-2006 by Ord. No. 06-12; 12-1-2009 by Ord. No.
09-04]
The liquid waste or liquid borne waste:
Wastewater after some degree of treatment, flowing out of
any treatment device or facilities.
The Executive Director of the Cumberland County Utilities
Authority.
A pipeline carrying flow under pressure.
A representative sample which is taken from a waste stream
on a one-time basis with no regard to the flow in the waste stream
and without consideration of time.
A pipeline carrying flow by gravity or operating under atmospheric
pressures.
Any material which is extractable from an acidified sample
of a waste by hexane or other designated solvent.
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant as defined
herein.
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants
from any source regulated under Section 307(b), (c) or (d) of the
Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317), into the POTW (including
holding tank waste discharged into the system).
The liquid waste or liquid borne waste resulting from the
processes employed by any user or users identified in the Standard
Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual 1972, Office of Management
and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following
divisions:
Any:
Nonresidential user which discharges industrial
or sanitary waste and which is identified in the Standard Industrial
Classification Manual, 1972, as amended and supplemented, under one
of the following divisions:
Any user which discharges wastewater containing
incompatible pollutants or pollutants subject to pretreatment standards.
Any liquid, gaseous or solid substances or a combination
thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade
or business or from the development or recovery of any natural resource,
as distinct from sanitary wastes.
Water entering the City sewer system from the ground, through
such means as, but not limited to, defective pipes, pipe joints, connections,
or manhole walls. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished
from, inflow.
Water discharged into the City sewer system from such sources
as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellars, yards and area drains,
foundation drains, cooling water discharges, drains from springs and
swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections from storm sewers
and combined sewers, catch basins, stormwaters, surface runoff, street
wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished
from, infiltration.
Wastewater, raw or partly treated, flowing into any wastewater
treatment device or facilities.
An Authority-owned sewer which receives flow from a local
sewer collection system.
Any sewer or system of sewers which is connected to the Cohansey
River Basin Sewer System and owned and/or operated by any person (as
defined in Section 2.21.0) other than the Authority.
The program for issuing, conditioning and denying permits
for the discharge of pollutants from point sources into navigable
waters, the contiguous zone and the oceans pursuant to Section 402
of P.L. 92-500 and its amendments.
The New Jersey system for the issuing, modifying, suspending,
revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing of discharge
permits pursuant to the state act. The term also includes discharge
permits (NPDES) issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Clean Water
Act of 1977.
As defined in Section 2-7.2b as average domestic sewage.
Any authorization, approval, or equivalent control document
issued by the EPA, state approval authority, or the Cumberland County
Utilities Authority to restrict, control, or otherwise regulate the
quantity and/or quality of wastewater discharged to the Cohansey River
Basin Sewer System by a user. A user who is discharging into the Cohansey
River Basin System under authority of a permit is known as "permitted
user."
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation,
association, group or society including the State of New Jersey and
agencies, districts, commissions and political subdivisions, created
by or pursuant to state law and federal agencies, departments or instrumentalities
thereof.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the hydrogen
ion concentration in moles per liter of solution. Solutions with a
pH less than 7 are said to be acidic, pH equal to 7 are considered
neutral, and pH greater than 7 are said to be alkaline.
Shall mean or may be so defined now or hereafter by appropriate
local, state or federal agencies or by the Authority as substances
which may be present in wastewater, whether gaseous, liquid or solid,
the amount of which may contain soluble or insoluble solids of organic
or inorganic nature which may deplete the dissolved oxygen content
of natural waters, contribute solids, contain oil, grease, or floating
solids which may cause unsightly appearances on the surface of such
waters, or contain materials detrimental to aquatic life, including
but not limited to any dredges spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue,
sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, substance, thermal
waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and
industrial, municipal or agricultural waste or other residue discharged
into receiving waters.
That portion of the POTW that is designed to provide treatment,
including recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage and industrial
waste.
Any parcel of real property, including land, improvements,
or appurtenances, such as buildings, ground, etc.
The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination
of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant's properties
in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing
such pollutants into a POTW.
Any procedural or substantive requirement related to pretreatment,
other than a national pretreatment standard, that is imposed on an
industrial user.
The public sewer lines or mains designed or used for collection
or disposal of wastewater.
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33
U.S.C. § 2392) which is maintained in this instance by the
Cumberland County Utilities Authority. For the purpose of these rules
and regulations, POTW shall also include any sewer lines that convey
wastewater to the POTW from persons outside the CCUA's service area
who are, by contract or agreement with the CCUA, users of the CCUA's
POTW and any devices and systems used to store, treat, recycle, and
reclaim municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature.
The term also means the municipal discharges to and the discharges
from such a treatment works.
A facility in which wastewater is conveyed from a lower hydraulic
elevation to a higher hydraulic elevation using mechanical or pneumatic
devices.
Wash water, culinary wastes, and liquid waste containing
only human excreta and similar matter, flowing in or from a building
drainage system in sewer originating in a dwelling, business or office
building, factory or institution. For the purposes of these articles,
sanitary waste shall be characterized as normal sewage.
The liquid or 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.
A pipe or conduit, generally closed, for carrying wastewater.
The sewerage facilities within the City and shall include
all collecting sewers, pumping stations, force mains and appurtenances
thereto owned or operated by the City.
Garbage shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
public sewers, with no particle having a dimension greater than 1/2
inch in any direction, excluding household garbage wastes.
Any user who discharges into the POTW of the
CCUA industrial process wastewater from industries defined by the
EPA as categorical industries and subject to categorical standards.
Any noncategorical user discharging nondomestic
wastewater that:
Exceeds 25,000 gallons per day; or
Exceeds the same mass equivalent of 25,000 gallons
per day of the domestic wastes of the POTW of the CCUA based on the
values for normal sewage as defined hereinabove; or
Exceeds 5% of the average daily flow of the
POTW of the CCUA; or
Contributes 5% or more of the daily mass loading
of any of the pollutants listed in Table I which are entering the
POTW; or
Has a reasonable potential, in the opinion of
the control or approval authority, to adversely affect the POTW treatment
plant (inhibition, pass-through of pollutants, sludge contamination,
or endangerment of POTW workers).
The New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1
et seq.
The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage
area or building during or immediately following a period of rain
or snow melt.[1]
The laboratory determination of the dry weight expressed
in milligrams per liter of solids that either float on the surface,
are in suspension, or are settleable and can be removed from wastewater
by filtering through a Gooch crucible.
Those pollutants, or combination 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 Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection,
cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations,
physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions in reproduction,
or physical deformation, in such organisms or their offspring. Toxic
pollutants shall include but not be limited to those pollutants designated
under Section 307 of the Federal Act or Section 4 of the State Act.
Any substance or combination of substances, whether gaseous,
liquid or solid, which when discharged to the sewer system in sufficient
quantities may tend to interfere with any treatment process, constitute
a hazard to recreation in the receiving waters of the effluent from
the wastewater treatment plant, pose a hazard to workers in the sewer
system, or constitute a hazard to fish or animal life.
Any device or system, whether public or private, used in
the storage, treatment, recycling, or reclamation of municipal or
industrial waste of a liquid nature, including intercepting sewers,
outfall sewer, sewage collection systems, cooling towers and ponds,
pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extension,
improvements, remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements
essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment
units and clear well facilities; any other works including sites for
the treatment process or the ultimate disposal of residues resulting
from such treatment. Additionally, "treatment works" means any other
method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating,
separating or disposing of pollutants, including stormwater runoff,
or industrial waste in combined or separate stormwater and sanitary
sewer systems.
Water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited
by the effluent standard in effect, and/or water whose discharge will
not cause any violation of receiving water quality standards or interference
with their designated uses.
Solid waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food or food products and from the handling, storing and sale of
produce, excluding household garbage wastes.
Any person who discharges, causes, or permits the discharge
of any wastewater into the treatment works.
A classification of users based on the 1972 (or subsequent)
Edition of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual prepared
by the Federal Office of Management and Budget.
The liquid or 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 CCUA treatment works.
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Editor's Note: The former definition of "Supervisor,"
which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 11-21-2006
by Ord. No. 06-12
Terms not defined herein shall be defined as
set forth in the Cumberland County Utilities Authority Sewer Use Rules
and Regulations, as amended. To the extent that the terms and definitions
herein are inconsistent with those used by the Cumberland County Utilities
Authority, the terms and definitions herein shall be amended to the
terms and definitions found in the Cumberland County Utilities Authority
Sewer Use Rules and Regulations.
