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.