This chapter may be cited as the "Sewer System Ordinance of
the Township of Wayne."
[Ord. No. 53-2014]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure, in five days
at 20° C., expressed in parts per million by weight.
The Department of Public Works or a duly appointed representative
thereof.
The Township Engineer or his/her authorized deputy, inspector,
agent or representative.
All land along the Passaic or Pompton Rivers or any tributaries
thereof which is subject to surface flooding.
Solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, dispensing, handling, storage and/or sale of food.
The Township Health Officer or his/her authorized deputy,
inspector, agent or representative.
The piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge
from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of a building
and conveys it to the street curbline.
The liquid wastes from industrial processes, distinct from
sanitary sewage.
Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other
body of surface or ground water.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
A sanitary sewer system not owned and operated by the Township.
A sanitary sewer system owned or controlled by the Township.
A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm-, surface
and ground waters are not intentionally admitted.
A combination of water-carried wastes from residences, business
buildings, institutions and industrial establishments.
A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage.
Any arrangement of devices and structures used for treating
sewage.
The extension of the house service connection from the street
curbline to the street sewer.
All facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing
of sewage.
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of
foods that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in
street sewers, with no particle greater than 1 1/2 inch in any
dimension.
A sewer which carries storm- and surface water and drainage
but excludes sewage and polluted industrial wastes.
The Superintendent of the Division of Water and Sewers of
the Township of Wayne or his/her duly appointed deputy, agent or representative.
Solids that float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
A channel in which a flow of water occurs continuously or
intermittently.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit or permit
to be deposited in an unsanitary manner, upon public or private property
within the Township, any human or animal excrement, garbage or other
objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
or under the jurisdiction of the Township any sanitary sewage, industrial
wastes or other polluted material unless suitable treatment is provided
in accordance with the requirements of this chapter hereinafter set
forth.
The owner, tenant or any person occupying a house, building
or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other
purposes, abutting on any street in which there is a public or private
sanitary sewer system, shall, at his/her own expense, install suitable
toilet facilities therein. He/She shall connect such facilities directly
with the proper public or private sewer system in accordance with
the provisions of this chapter within 90 days after official notice
to do so, provided that the public or private sewer is within 100
feet of his/her property line. The Health Officer may, at his/her
discretion, order said connection at any time if a subsurface disposal
system is malfunctioning, or in the event that a potential health
hazard exists as the result of such malfunction of the subsurface
disposal system.
Prefabricated package treatment plant facilities shall not be
constructed, erected or placed, within private individual site developments.
In all cases, on-site sewage shall be connected into the Township's
sanitary sewer collection system and be treated at the wastewater
treatment facilities of the Township following procedures promulgated
by the Township.
