The purpose of this article is to regulate and control the use of public sewers and to establish the rights of inspection.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
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.
FLOTABLE OIL 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.
GREASE OR FATS Any material which is extractable from an acidified sample of a waste by hexane or other designated solvent.
HEAVY METALS The electronegative metals with a density greater than five grams per cubic centimeter, including but not limited to lead, chromium, mercury, nickel and zinc, plus the nonmetallic element arsenic.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES The liquid wastes from industrial manufacturing processes, trade or business as distinct from 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 Village of South Orange, 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 amended and supplemented, in the matter of a joint outlet and trunk sewer and treatment plant for the sewage emanating from 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 theretofor or thereafter constructed and maintained by the Joint Meeting.
MAJOR INDUSTRY An industrial user of municipal or Joint Meeting wastewater facilities that:
A. Has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per workday;
B. Has in its waste toxic substances injurious to the treatment process or sewer system;
C. 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
D. 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 includes, but is 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.
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
PERSON Any individual, firm, company, partnership, society, association, corporation (public or private) or group, including heirs, executors, administrators or assigns.
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.
PRETREATMENT Treatment given to waste by other than residential users prior to its direct or indirect discharge to municipal or Joint Meeting wastewater facilities to remove illegal and/or undesirable waste constituents or to reduce the strength of waste prior to discharge to 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 stormwaters as may be present.
SEWAGE WORKS All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SEWERS 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 or flows during normal operation.
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.
USEPA The United States Environmental Protection Agency or successor agency.
As a precondition for the right to discharge waste in any form into the sewers and wastewater facilities of the municipality or the Joint Meeting, all industrial users shall provide immediate access to their facilities at any time during which there is a discharge to the wastewater facilities. Access shall also be provided for the purpose of checking the quality of the discharge, taking samples and making tests of the discharge or for the purpose of permitting the enforcement of this article and shall be made available to the municipality, Joint Meeting, NJDEP and USEPA. All users shall provide access to property and premises for inspection to determine if there are any violations of the terms or provisions of this article.
As a precondition for the right to discharge waste in any form into the sewers and wastewater facilities of the municipality or the Joint Meeting, all persons subject to this article shall be required to provide information to the municipality, Joint Meeting, NJDEP or USEPA, as needed, to determine compliance with this article. This information may include:
A. Wastewater discharge rate and volume over a specified time period.
B. Chemical analysis of wastewater.
C. Information on raw materials, processes and products affecting wastewater volume and quality.
D. Quantity and disposition of specified liquid, sludge, oil, solvent or other materials important to sewer use control.
E. A plot plan of sewers on the user's property showing sewer and pretreatment facility location.
F. Details of wastewater pretreatment facilities.
G. Details of systems designed to prevent and/or control the loss of spilled materials to the sanitary sewer (i.e., spill prevention plan).
H. Any other information required by the municipality or Joint Meeting.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of wastewater, to which reference is made in this article, shall be determined in accordance with the latest edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation, or other methods or procedure that may be acceptable to the governmental authority requiring the measurements, tests or analyses. Sampling method, location, time, duration and frequency shall be determined on an individual basis by the governmental authority requiring the sampling.
All users of the wastewater facilities shall comply with the requirements of the written rules and regulations of the municipality and Joint Meeting, which regulations shall become effective upon the filing of certified copies in the office of the Municipal Clerk after the effective date of this article.
No person shall maliciously, intentionally or negligently break, damage, destroy, uncover, deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or equipment that is part of the wastewater facilities of the municipality or Joint Meeting.