Unless the context otherwise requires, the meanings of terms used herein shall be as follows:
BOD (DENOTING "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND") 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.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD) The measure of the organic matter present in the sewage as determined by the dichromatic reflux method and expressed in milligrams per liter [parts per million (ppm)].
CHLORINE DEMAND The amount of chlorine expressed in milligrams per liter, or parts per million by weight, which will complete the normal reactions with all chemicals and materials in the sewage leaving an excess of one-tenth (0.1) milligram per liter [one-tenth (0.1) parts per million by weight], after 30 minutes' contact time at room temperature of approximately 70° F.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT BOD, suspended solids, pH and fecal coliform bacteria and such additional pollutants as are now or may be in the future specified and controlled in the Joint Meeting's NPDES permit for its wastewater treatment facilities where said facilities have been designed and used to reduce or remove such pollutants.
COOLING WATER Any water used for the purpose of carrying away excess heat, and which may contain biocides used to control biological growth.
DEPARTMENT The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy.
DIRECTOR/SUPERINTENDENT The Director/Superintendent of the wastewater treatment system/water pollution control/public works of the Joint Meeting or his/her duly appointed deputy, agent or representative.
DOMESTIC WASTES Liquid wastes from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling of food or consisting of human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
FLOTABLE OIL Fat or grease in a physical state which will separate by gravity from wastewater through treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of "flotable oil" if it is properly pretreated in such a manner that the discharged wastewater does not interfere with the wastewater facilities.
GARBAGE Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of food.
GREASE OR FATS Any material which is extractable from an acidified sample of a waste by hexane or other designated solvent or other acceptable means.
HEAVY METALS The electronegative metals with a density greater than five grams per cubic centimeter.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES The wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from domestic and/or commercial sanitary sewage.
JOINT MEETING The municipalities of the City of East Orange, the Township of Hillside, the Town of Irvington, the Township of Maplewood, the Township of Millburn, the City of Newark, the Borough of Roselle Park, the Township of South Orange Village, the City of Summit, the Township of Union and the Town of West Orange, organized in Joint Meeting pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:63-68 et seq., under the terms of a contract dated June 1, 1926, as supplemented, in the matter of an outlet sewer and treatment plant for said municipalities, and, when the context requires, shall mean the Executive Director or his authorized deputy, agent or representative.
JOINT SEWER Includes the joint outlet or trunk sewer constructed by the several municipalities under a contract dated March 15, 1901; the supplementary joint trunk sewer and sewage disposal plant constructed under a contract between the member municipalities dated June 1, 1926, and contract dated March 9, 1931; or shall mean any trunk sewer therefor or thereafter constructed and maintained by the Joint Meeting.
MAJOR INDUSTRY An industrial user of the municipal or Joint Meeting wastewater facilities that:
(1) Has a flow of 25,000 gallons or more per workday of equivalent domestic or commercial waste;
(2) Had in its waste toxic substances injurious to the treatment process or sewer system;
(3) Is found by USEPA, NJDEP, Joint Meeting or the municipality to have a significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on municipal or Joint Meeting wastewater facilities or upon the quality of effluent from these wastewater facilities; or
(4) Has a detrimental effect upon human health or welfare.
NJDEP The State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy or successor agency.
NONSTATIONARY SOURCE Any mobile vehicle, piece of equipment or appurtenance thereof that is utilized in the discharge of waste or wastewater to any sewer or natural outlet. The terms include, but are not limited to, tank trucks and dump trucks as well as associated equipment and appurtenances. Fixed, permanent or semipermanent equipment is excluded from the category of "nonstationary source" and is regulated elsewhere in this article.
PERSON Any individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation, association (public or private), group or society and includes the State of New Jersey and agencies, districts, commissions and political subdivisions created by or pursuant to state law.
PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS That portion of the total extractable grease or fats which is not retained on an activated alumina absorption column after elutriating with hexane.
PH The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
POLLUTANT Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive substance, thermal waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal or agricultural waste or other residue discharged into the Joint Meeting or municipal sewer system or waters of the state.
PRETREATMENT Treatment by application of physical, chemical and/or biological processes to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the pollutant properties in a wastewater other than residential prior to its direct or indirect discharge to municipal or Joint Meeting wastewater facilities and to remove illegal and/or undesirable waste constituents or to reduce the strength of the waste prior to the discharge to the publicly owned wastewater facilities.
SANITARY SEWER A sewer which carries sewage and to which stormwater, surface water and groundwater are not intentionally admitted.
SEWAGE A combination of the water-carried wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, together with such groundwater, surface water and stormwater as may be present.
SEWAGE OR TREATMENT WORKS Any device or system, whether public or private, used in the conveyance, storage, treatment, recycling or reclamation of municipal or industrial waste of a liquid nature, including: intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, cooling towers and ponds, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any other works including sites for the treatment process or for 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. The term "treatment works" shall not be construed to include any facility subject to the requirements of the Solid Waste Management Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-1 et seq.
SEWER A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
SLUG Any discharge of water, sewage 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 of flows during normal operation.
STORMWATER Any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
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.
TOXIC POLLUTANT Those pollutants or combinations of pollutants, including disease-causing agents, which after discharge 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, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions in reproduction, or physical deformation in such an organism or their offspring.
UNPOLLUTED WATER Water not containing any pollutants limited or prohibited by the effluent standards in effect, and water whose discharge will not cause any violation of receiving water quality standards.
USEPA The United States Environmental Protection Agency or successor agency.
USER Any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge of wastewater into the wastewater treatment facilities of the Joint Meeting.
USER CLASSIFICATION A classification of user based on the 1972 (or subsequent) 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 Joint Meeting treatment facilities.