Effective as of January 1, 2006, there is hereby established
a Sewer Utility of the Township of Montclair. The purposes of the
Sewer Utility are to promote the operation and maintenance of the
Township public sewer system and to thereby assure proper disposal
of sewage and wastewater; to provide an adequate record of sewer connections
and appurtenances; to prescribe a method of establishing fees and
charges for connection to and use of the municipal sewage system;
and to provide an appropriate method of billing for such fees and
charges.
For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context specifically
indicates otherwise, the meaning of the following terms shall be as
follows:
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
BRANCH CONNECTION
"A," "T" or "Y" attached to or built in a public sewer to
a building sewer.
BUILDING DRAIN
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a sewage system
which receives the discharge from sanitary waste pipes inside the
walls of the building and conveys it to the building sanitary sewer
beginning at the outside face of the building wall.
COLLECTOR OF SEWER FEES
The duly appointed Tax Collector of the Township of Montclair,
or his or her duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
COMBINED SEWER
A sewer in which both surface runoff or stormwater and sewage
are received.
COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL USER
Any business, industry, store, restaurant or office, and
including any single-family residential dwelling having a business
or business office located therein if both the residential use and
the business or office use are served by the same water meter.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and disposing
of foods and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
HEALTH OFFICER
The duly appointed Health Officer of the Township of Montclair.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
The wastewater from industrial processes, trades and businesses
as distinguished from domestic or sanitary wastes.
INSTITUTIONAL USER
Any school, church or hospital, or any building or facility
owned or operated by a governmental entity, but not including any
building or facility owned or operated by the Township of Montclair.
MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL USER
Any apartment building or multifamily house or building,
including buildings under cooperative or condominium form of ownership,
in which more than one dwelling unit is served by a single water meter.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
PH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen ions in grams
per liter of solution.
PUBLIC SEWER
A sanitary sewer to which all owners of abutting properties
have equal rights and which is controlled and maintained by a governmental
agency or public authority.
SANITARY SEWER
A sewer which carries sewage and in which storm, surface/waters
and groundwaters are not permitted to enter and flow.
SEWAGE
A combination of the water-carried wastes from any building
or structure, also referred to as "wastewater."
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Any arrangement of mechanical, biological or chemical devices
or structures used for treating sewage.
SEWER
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL USER
Any single-family residence, house, dwelling, condominium
unit or townhouse unit which is served by a single separate water
meter.
SLUG
Any discharge of water or wastewater which in connection
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 of flows during normal operation and/or
adversely affects the collection system and/or performance of the
wastewater treatment plant.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent or Acting Superintendent of the Montclair
Sewer Utility.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.