As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA(S)
Any of the following:
A.
A riverine flood hazard area delineated by the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection pursuant to the State Flood Hazard Area Control
Act, N.J.S.A. 58:16A-50 et seq., or the one-hundred-year flood hazard area
identified under the flood insurance studies prepared for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency or in other areas shown to be within the area subject to
inundation by the one-hundred-year design flood of a nondelineated stream
as determined pursuant to N.J.S.A. 58:16A-55.2.
B.
A coastal flood hazard area identified by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency or delineated by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection,
or, if not delineated, areas at elevations of less than 12 feet above mean
sea level in the coastal floodplain.
C.
The upstream portion of the watershed draining to an on-stream reservoir.
D.
Those watershed areas that drain directly into an off-stream reservoir.
E.
The watersheds for waters classified by the New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection as FW-1 waters of FW-2 trout production waters in
the surface water quality standards, N.J.S.A. 7:9-4 et seq.
F.
Wetland areas inundated by surface or ground water with a frequency
to support, under normal circumstances, a prevalence of vegetative or aquatic
life that requires saturated or seasonally saturated soil conditions for growth
and reproduction.
G.
Areas where the location of sanitary landfills would adversely affect
a habitat of an endangered or threatened wildlife or vegetative species as
defined by the New Jersey Endangered and Nongame Species Conservation Act,
N.J.S.A. 23:2A-1 et seq., or the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, P.L.
93-205, unless a habitat adequate to assure the survival of the species within
the region surrounding or on the site is preserved.
H.
Areas designated as wild, scenic, recreational or developed recreational
areas pursuant to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, 16 U.S.C.A. 1271
et seq., or the New Jersey Wild and Scenic River Act, N.J.S.A. 13:8-45 et
seq.
I.
Lands in municipally approved farmland preservation programs or lands
which have been dedicated to agricultural use by the purchase of their development
rights pursuant to the provisions of the Farmland Preservation Bond Act, P.L.
1981, c. 276, or equivalent independent county/municipal programs.
J.
Areas within 6.25 miles [10 kilometers] of any mandatory Federal Class
I Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality area.
K.
Areas where the groundwater travel time within the uppermost saturated
unit from the proposed sanitary landfill to the site boundary or to a surface
water body within the site boundary is less than 10 years.
L.
Areas within one mile of a water supply well or well field producing
over 100,000 gallons per day unless it may be demonstrated to the satisfaction
of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Gloucester
County Health Department that the natural hydrologic barriers isolate the
site from the aquifer being pumped.
LOCATE
Place, store, site or situate, on a temporary, recurrent or repeated
basis, for purposes of storage and/or accumulation and/or disposal.
PERSON
An individual, trust, firm, joint-stock company, corporation (including
a government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality,
commission, political subdivision of a state or any interstate body.
SANITARY LANDFILL
A parcel of real estate utilized as an area of deposit for refuse,
trash, garbage and other discarded materials.
No person shall locate sanitary landfills in any environmentally sensitive
area in Logan Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.