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:
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).
"A," "T" or "Y" attached to or built in a public sewer to a building sewer.
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.
The extension from the building drain to the branch connection at the public sewer or other place of disposal.
The duly appointed Tax Collector of the Township of Montclair, or his or her duly authorized deputy, agent or representative.
A sewer in which both surface runoff or stormwater and sewage are received.
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.
Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking and disposing of foods and from the handling, storage and sale of produce.
The duly appointed Health Officer of the Township of Montclair.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trades and businesses as distinguished from domestic or sanitary wastes.
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.
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.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
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.
A sewer which carries sewage and in which storm, surface/waters and groundwaters are not permitted to enter and flow.
A combination of the water-carried wastes from any building or structure, also referred to as "wastewater."
Any arrangement of mechanical, biological or chemical devices or structures used for treating sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any single-family residence, house, dwelling, condominium unit or townhouse unit which is served by a single separate water meter.
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.
The Superintendent or Acting Superintendent of the Montclair Sewer Utility.
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.