Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise,
the following terms and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the meanings
hereinafter designated:
ACT or THE ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the "Clean
Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
APPROVAL AUTHORITY
The Director of the NJDEPs Division of Water Resources or his/her
authorized representatives.
APPROVED TEST PROCEDURE
All analysis shall be performed in accordance with the analytical
test procedures approved under 40 CFR Part 136. Analysis for those pollutants
not covered therein shall be performed in accordance with procedures approved
by the NJDEP.
AUTHORITY
The Delanco Sewerage Authority and its members, Superintendent and
their agents, employees and representatives.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES OF INDUSTRIAL USER
An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:
(1)
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president,
if the industrial user is a corporation;
(2)
A general partner or proprietor if the industrial user is a partnership
or proprietorship, respectively;
(3)
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated above
if such representative is responsible for the overall operation of the regulated
facility, such as a position of plant manager, superintendent, or person of
equivalent responsibility.
BEVERLY AUTHORITY
The Beverly Sewerage Authority and its members, superintendent and
their agents, employees and representatives.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic
matter for five days at 20° C expressed in terms of weight and concentration
([milligrams per liter (mg/l)] in accordance with an approved test procedure.
CATEGORICAL STANDARDS
Pretreatment standards specifying quantities or concentrations of
pollutants or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced to
a POTW by existing or new industrial users in specific industrial subcategories.
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
A measure of the oxygen-consuming capacity of inorganic and organic
matter present in water or wastewater expressed as the amount of oxygen consumed
by a chemical oxidant in accordance with an approved test procedure.
CHLORINE DEMAND
The amount of chlorine expressed in mg/l which will complete the
normal reaction with all chemicals and materials in the waste having an excess
to 0.1 mg/l after 30 minutes contract time at room temperature.
COMMISSIONER
The Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
or his/her authorized representative.
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
Biochemical oxygen demand, 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 Authority's NJPDES permit, where the POTW
is designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact, does treat such pollutants
to the degree required by the NJPDES permit.
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected during
a specific time period and combined to make a representative sample.
CONSISTENT REMOVAL
A reduction in the amount of a pollutant or alteration of the nature
of the pollutant by the wastewater treatment system to a less toxic or harmless
state in the effluent which is achieved by the system as measured according
to the procedures set forth in Section 403.7(d)(2) of the "General Pretreatment
Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution" (40 CFR, Part 403)
promulgated pursuant to the Act.
CONTROL AUTHORITY
Refers to the "approval authority" defined hereinabove; or the Superintendent
if the Authority has an approved pretreatment program under the provisions
of 40 CFR 403.11.
COOLING WATER
Any water used for the purpose of carrying away excess heat, and
which may contain biocides used to control biological growth or other additives
to protect the system against corrosion, scaling and the like.
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
DISCHARGE
The releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
or dumping of a pollutant into the waters of the state or onto the land or
into wells from which the pollutant might flow or drain into said waters,
and shall include the release of any pollutant into a municipal treatment
works.
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
The liquid waste or liquid borne waste:
(1)
Resulting from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling of
food; and/or
(2)
Consisting of human excrement and similar wastes from the sanitary conveniences.
EPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
FEDERAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
Pretreatment standards as codified in 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter
N, specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants or pollutant properties
which may be discharged or introduced to a POTW by existing or new industrial
users in specific industrial subcategories.
GARBAGE
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking,
dispensing, handling, storage and/or sale of food.
GRAB SAMPLE
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis without
regard to flow or time.
HOLDING TANK WASTE
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers,
trailers, septic tanks, and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
INDIRECT DISCHARGE
The discharge or the introduction of nondomestic pollutants from
any service regulated under Section 307(b) or (c) of the Act (33 U.S.C. § 1317),
into the POTW (including holding tank waste discharged into the system).
INDUSTRIAL PROCESS WASTEWATER
In addition to any groundwater, surface water, and stormwaters from
the site which is introduced into a treatment works, the liquid waste or liquidborne
waste resulting from the processes employed by any person identified in the
Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and
Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:
(1)
Division A, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.
(3)
Division D, Manufacturing.
(4)
Division E, Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary
Services.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any person, commercial or industrial entity who discharges, causes,
or permits the discharge of nondomestic wastewater into the treatment works.
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INTERFERENCE
(1)
Means:
(a)
Inhibiting or disrupting the operation of a POCS or a POTW or its treatment
process so as to contribute to, cause or increase a violation of any condition
of a state or federal permit under which the POTW operates; or
(b)
Discharging industrial process wastewater which, in combination with
existing domestic flows are of such volume and/or strength as to exceed the
POTW design capacity or that approved by the Superintendent; or
(c)
Exceeding the threshold concentrations of organic and inorganic pollutants
that are inhibitory to biological treatment processes as specified in the
"Federal Guidelines for State and Local Pretreatment Programs," EPA-430/9-76-017a,
Volume 1, 1977 (or the latest revision thereof), unless in the case of a specific
pollutant the treatment works is designed to accommodate higher concentrations
of that specific pollutant; or
(d)
Preventing the use or disposal of sludge produced by the POTW in accordance
with Section 405 of the Federal Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.), any regulations or criteria or guidelines developed pursuant to
the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. § 3251
et seq.), the Federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.),
the Federal Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.),
Sections 2, 4, and 6 of the State Act, and, to the extent practicable, the
New Jersey Guidelines for the Utilization and Disposal of Municipal and Industrial
Sludges and Septage.
(2)
Pursuant to 40 CFR 403.3(h), pollutants in the effluent from an industrial
user shall not be considered to cause interference where the industrial user
is in compliance with specific prohibitions or standards developed by the
federal, state or local governments.
NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NJPDES)
The New Jersey system for the issuing, modifying, suspending, revoking
and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing, of discharge permits
pursuant to the State Act. The term also includes discharge permits (NPDES)
issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq.).
NORMAL SLUDGE
Analysis by the Authority showing not more than the following:
(1)
BOD: Seven pounds per million gallons (200 mg/l) or less.
(2)
Chlorine demand: 16 pounds per million gallons (20 mg/l) or less.
(3)
Ether soluble materials: 417 pounds per million gallons 50 mg/l or less.
(4)
pH: No less than 5.5 nor more than 9.0.
(5)
Suspended solids: 2,083 pounds per million gallons 250 mg/l or less.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation, association,
group or society, including the State of New Jersey, and agencies, districts,
commissions and political subdivisions created by or pursuant to state law,
and federal agencies, departments or instrumentalities thereof.
pH
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration of
hydrogen ions in moles per liter of solution. Solutions with a pH greater
than seven are said to be basic; solutions with a pH less than seven are said
to be acidic; pH equal to seven is considered neutral. Analysis shall be performed
in accordance with an approved test procedure.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, holding tank waste, incinerator residue,
sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, septage, 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 directly or indirectly discharged into
the waters of the state, the introduction of which renders these waters detrimental
or immediately or potentially dangerous to the public health or unfit for
public or commercial use.
PRETREATMENT
The application of physical, chemical and/or biological processes
to reduce the amount of pollutants in, or alter the nature of the polluting
properties of, wastewater prior to discharging such wastewater into the treatment
works.
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
All applicable federal or state rules and regulations implementing
Section 307 of the Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et
seq.) or N.J.S.A. 58:11-49, as well as any nonconflicting state or local standards.
In cases of conflicting standards or regulations, the more stringent thereof
shall be applied.
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
A treatment works as defined by Section 212 of the Act (33 U.S.C.
§ 1292) which is owned in this instance by the Beverly Sewerage
Authority. For the purposes of this chapter, POTW shall also include any sewers
that convey wastewaters to the POTW from dischargers into the Authority's
POCS.
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR
The Administrator of Region II of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency or his/her authorized representative.
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER or SIU
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(1)
Any user in Delanco including, but not limited to, any significant industrial
user as defined in 40 CFR 403.3 and any significant indirect user as defined
in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.2, but excluding municipal collection systems, who discharges
wastewater into the local agency where:
(a)
The user is subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR
403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter 1, Subchapter N;
(b)
The user’s average volume of process wastewater exceeds 25,000
gallons per day;
(c)
The amount of BOD, COD or suspended solids in the industrial process
wastewater discharge exceeds the mass equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day
of domestic waste of the affected local agency;
(d)
The volume of industrial process wastewater in the discharge exceeds
five percent or more of the average dry weather flow of the local agency;
(e)
The user’s discharge of process wastewater contributes, five percent
or more of the daily mass loading of any pollutants listed in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-4,
Appendix A Tables II through V;
(f)
The user is designated as an SIU by the Department on the basis that
the user has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the local agency’s
operation;
(g)
The user is designated as an SIU by the control authority on the basis
that the user has been in violation of any federal, state, or local pretreatment
standard or requirement, including, but not limited to significant noncompliance
as defined in 40 CFR 403.8(f)(2)(vii);
(h)
The control authority determines it would be consistent with the intent
of the Pretreatment Act or State Act to require a permit for the industrial
user;
(i)
The user is determined to be a hazardous waste facility that received
a permit in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:26G-12;
(j)
The user’s discharge consists of landfill leachate, which is either
pure, treated, or diluted; or
(k)
The user’s discharge consists of 25,000 gallons per day or more
of process wastewater and/or polluted groundwater which is pumped from the
ground in order to decontaminate an aquifer; however,
(2)
Upon finding that any user has no reasonable potential for adversely
affecting the Authorities’ operation or for violating any federal, state
or local pretreatment standard or requirement, the Department may at any time,
on its own initiative or in response to a petition received from a user or
local agency, and in accordance with 40 CFR 403.8(f)(6), determine that any
user is not a significant industrial user.
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, 1972 (as revised), issued by the Executive Office of the President,
Office of Management and Budget.
STATE
State of New Jersey.
STATE ACT
The New Jersey "Water Pollution Control Act," N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et
seq.
STORMWATER
Any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural
precipitation and resulting therefrom.
SUPERINTENDENT
The Superintendent or Executive Director of the wastewater collection
system of the Delanco Sewerage Authority or his/her duly appointed deputy,
agent or representative.
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SUSPENDED SOLIDS
The total nonfilterable residue as defined in Manual of Methods for
Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes and analyzed in accordance with an approved
test procedure.
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, may, on the basis of information available to the Commissioner,
cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations,
physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions in reproduction, or physical
deformation, in such organisms or their offspring. "Toxic pollutants" shall
include but not be limited to those pollutants designated under Section 307
of the Federal Act or Section 4 of the State Act.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any device or system, whether public or private, used in the 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; 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.
WASTEWATER
The liquid and water-carried wastes from the 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 collection system of the
Delanco Sewerage Authority and thereafter the collection system.