[HISTORY: Adopted by the Delanco Sewerage
Authority 6-21-1948 by Res. No. 1948-7. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words, when used in this chapter,
shall be deemed to have the meanings herein specified:
The fee associated with the connection of a single residential
unit or a multiple thereof to the Authority's collection system. Based
upon the regulations set forth in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-23.3, a single residential
unit is equivalent to 300 gallons per day (GPD). Accordingly, any
nonresidential projected use greater than 300 GPD shall be responsible
for posting a connection fee based on the equivalent number of residential
units necessary to provide sewerage to the property (i.e., a nonresidential
user with a projected flow of 1,200 GPD shall be equivalent to 4 EDU).
Connection fees are calculated only as whole number equivalents and
shall be rounded up to the next whole number.
[Added 11-13-2014 by Res.
No. 2014-27]
The sewer line running from a building to the property line
and connecting with the service connection.
Any person, firm, association or corporation.
The sewer line extended from the property line to the main
or lateral in the street.
All property lying along the line of the sewerage
system of the Delanco Sewerage Authority, upon which any building
shall have been erected or constructed or upon which any building
shall hereafter be erected or constructed and which is used for dwelling
purposes or which uses sewer service, may be connected with such sewerage
system.
[Amended 6-19-2003 by Res. No. 2003-30; 6-11-2004 by Res. No. 2004-32; 7-11-2006 by Res. No. 2006-26; 6-12-2007 by Res. No. 2007-26; 5-13-2008 by Res. No. 2008-16; 6-9-2009 by Res. No. 2009-25; 6-8-2010 by Res. No. 2010-22; 5-10-2011 by Res. No.
2011-17; 6-12-2012 by Res. No. 2012-17; 4-9-2013 by Res. No.
2013-16; 6-10-2014 by Res. No. 2014-17; 6-9-2015 by Res. No. 2015-18; 7-12-2016 by Res. No. 2016-17; 6-13-2017 by Res. No. 2017-16; 7-10-2018 by Res. No.
2018-17; 10-8-2019 by Res. No. 2019-25; 11-10-2020 by Res. No. 2020-19; 6-14-2022 by Res. No. 2022-14]
A.
Hereafter, before any connection shall be made to the sewerage system aforesaid by any owner of property along the line thereof, said owner shall make application, in writing, to the Delanco Sewerage Authority and pay a connection fee of $2,630.08, payable as set forth in Subsection B hereof. Such owner shall not make such connection until the permission of the Delanco Sewerage Authority has been granted.
Plans and specifications for said connection
to the sewerage system must meet with the approval of the Delanco
Sewerage Authority and with rules and regulations of the proper municipal
department either now existing or hereafter adopted.
The person connecting his property with the
sewerage system shall make the house connection at his own expense,
and, in the event there is no service connection, he shall make the
service connection at his own expense. Any damage to the pavement,
sidewalk, curb or gutters, resulting from the making of any such connection
shall be repaired by such person at his own expense.
[Amended 11-9-1993 by Res. No. 1993-25]
The following service charges for nonindustrial
wastes are hereby fixed and officially established by the Delanco
Sewerage Authority as the service charges or rentals to be charged
for the use of any sewerage system of the Delanco Sewerage Authority:
A.
Quarterly charges for sanitary sewerage services.
[Amended 12-11-2007 by Res. No. 2007-38]
(1)
Schedule A: Residential. The minimum quarterly charge
for each one-family residential dwelling, each dwelling unit of an
apartment or of a multiple-family dwelling, or of a condominium and
for a house shall be $90 per quarter with a minimum allowance of 10,000
gallons.
[Amended 12-13-2011 by Res. No. 2011-26; 12-11-2012 by Res. No.
2012-27]
(2)
Schedule B: Commercial. The minimum quarterly charge
for each hall, public building (except schools, churches, nursing
homes and boarding homes), firehouses, saloons, clubs, stores, offices,
restaurants, warehouses, service stations, public garages and other
commercial establishments shall be $101 per quarter with a minimum
allowance of 10,000 gallons.
[Amended 12-13-2011 by Res. No. 2011-26; 12-11-2012 by Res. No.
2012-27]
(3)
Schedule C: Churches and Places of Worship. The minimum
quarterly charge for each church and place of worship shall be $165
per quarter with a minimum allowance of 20,000 gallons.
[Amended 12-13-2011 by Res. No. 2011-26; 12-11-2012 by Res. No.
2012-27]
(4)
Schedule D: Public and Private Schools. The minimum
quarterly charge for each public or private school shall be $165 per
quarter with a minimum allowance of 20,000 gallons.
[Amended 12-13-2011 by Res. No. 2011-26; 12-11-2012 by Res. No.
2012-27]
(5)
Schedule E: Manufacturing and Industrial Plants. The
minimum quarterly charge for each manufacturing and industrial plant
shall be $269 per quarter with a minimum allowance of 30,000 gallons.
[Amended 12-13-2011 by Res. No. 2011-26; 12-11-2012 by Res. No.
2012-27]
(6)
Schedule F: Nursing Home or Boarding Home. The charge
for each building used to house the residents of a nursing home or
a boarding home shall be $165 per quarter with a minimum allowance
of 10,000 gallons. Other buildings used in connection with the nursing
home or the boarding home shall pay the commercial rate.
[Amended 12-13-2011 by Res. No. 2011-26; 12-11-2012 by Res. No.
2012-27]
(7)
Schedule G: Residential Unmetered Service, Single
Unit. The minimum quarterly charge for a single-family residential
unit with unmetered private waste supply shall be $104 per quarter.
[Amended 12-13-2011 by Res. No. 2011-26; 12-11-2012 by Res. No.
2012-27]
(8)
Schedule H: Senior citizen/income-eligible service.
For those individuals within the Township who qualify through application
forms submitted to the tax collector of the Township as a senior citizen,
disabled person or income-eligible individual, excluding surviving
spouse, there shall be a discount of 10% of the minimum charge applied
to each eligible account, provided the particular individual has not
exceeded the minimum allowance of 10,000 gallons of water per quarter.
[Added 1-9-2007 by Res. No. 2007-03;
amended 8-14-2007]
(9)
Schedule
I: Delanco Firehouse. The minimum quarterly charge for the Delanco
Firehouse Tax Map Block 1800 Lot 2 shall be $25 flat rate per quarter
or $100 annually.
[Added 11-10-2009 by Res. No. 2009-35; amended 3-8-2011 by Res. No.
2011-14]
B.
Excess water consumption charges for Schedules A to
F, inclusive. Consumption in excess of the water allowance within
the quarter for the minimum quarterly charge will be billed at $7
per 1,000 gallons. If the consumption of water in a manufacturing
or industrial plant exceeds 2,000,000 gallons per year, the billable
gallons shall be certified by the Authority Engineer.
[Added 12-13-1994 by Res. No. 1994-25; amended 12-11-2012 by Res. No. 2012-27]
[Amended 7-13-1993 by Res. No. 1993-14; 7-11-2006 by Res. No. 2006-27]
A.
The charges or rentals for the use of the sewerage system as established by the terms of § 465-6 shall cover a quarterly period and shall be due and payable on the last day of the first month of each quarter. In the case of a new installation or connection, the charge shall be due and payable in advance upon the date of the making of such connection.
B.
The quarterly charges or rentals shall be based upon
water usage as metered by the local water utility. The first and second
quarterly charges and rentals will be calculated based on actual meter
readings taken for each respective usage period. The third and fourth
quarterly charges and rentals shall be calculated on the lesser of
either the average metered water usage as of the previous first and
second quarter readings or the actual meter reading for the respective
usage quarters. In the event of nonpayment of the service charges
or rentals when due, such service charges or rentals shall bear interest
from their due date at the rate of 1 1/2% per month after 30
days from the time when they become due and shall be and remain a
lien on the premises which such sewer is connected in the same manner
in which taxes are a lien on real estate, and the Authority shall
have the same remedies for the enforcement of the lien of such service
charges or rentals as the municipality has for the enforcement of
the lien of taxes upon real estate. In the event of nonpayment of
the service charges or rentals for a period of 30 days, the Authority
may cause the sewer connection of such person to be disconnected,
and such person may not again use the facilities of the system until
the defaulting user pays all arrears, plus a new connection fee.[1]
[Amended 12-9-2008 by Res. No. 2008-33]
No factory effluents or industrial wastes, comprising
wastes other than domestic, shall be discharged into the sewerage
system, except upon compliance with the following rules, regulations
and conditions:
A.
Each industrial plant making application for permission
to discharge industrial waste into the sewerage system shall furnish
all the information necessary to determine the quantity of such waste
and the nature or quality of the materials therein and other characteristics
of such waste. The industrial plant shall agree in such application
to bear the cost of the original and any subsequent chemical analysis
and laboratory tests.
B.
Adequate means shall be provided at each industrial
plant connected with the sewerage system for periodic determination
of all characteristics and concentrations of wastes. Such determination
shall be made at least twice each year, or, if deemed necessary by
the Authority, such determination may be made quarterly. Samples shall
be collected in such manner as to be truly representative of the actual
quality of the wastes, and standard method of analysis shall be used.
C.
Industrial waste discharged or proposed to be discharged
into the sewerage system shall be subject to analysis by the Authority.
D.
Industrial plants shall cooperate by adopting such
schedules of discharge as will, without interfering with factory production,
minimize peak concentration.
E.
So far as practicable, industrial wastes may be discharged
into the sewerage system with a minimum of pretreatment or without
pretreatment, provided the consent of the Authority is first obtained.
F.
In the event that the materials in wastes discharged
or proposed to be discharged from any industrial plant or the chemicals
in or characteristics of such wastes interfere or will interfere with
the efficiency of the sewage treatment and disposal works or unduly
increase the cost of operation thereof, said industrial plant shall
produce wastes of acceptable quality before discharge thereof into
the sewerage system by reducing its peak discharges, by construction
of equalizing tanks, by pretreatment, by partial pretreatment, by
elimination of troublesome wastes or by other approved means.
G.
Inasmuch as the difficulties involved in treatment
and disposal of industrial wastes from a particular industry may be
mitigated or aggravated by waste from another industry, and the cost
of such treatment and disposal may be decreased or increased thereby,
it is not deemed practicable at this time to fix any numerical standards
or limitations with respect to concentration or quality of industrial
wastes. It is, therefore, the intention of these rules, regulations
and conditions to allow maximum latitude in the use of the sewerage
system and to require control or special procedure by industries only
in such cases as the failure so to do would seriously affect the operation
of the sewerage treatment and disposal works or would entail unwarranted
expense for treatment and disposal thereof at said treatment and disposal
works.
Each industry discharging factory effluents
or industrial wastes into the sewers shall install a suitable device
for continuously recording and totalizing the flow discharged by it
into the sewerage system and shall submit for approval by the Authority
plans for complete metering installation.
[Added 11-12-2002 by Res. No. 2002-35; amended 4-12-2016 by Res. No.
2016-12]
Any person or entity found to have violated
an order of the Authority, or who willfully or negligently failed
to comply with any provision of this Code, shall be subject to all
penalties allowed by law for each offense. For each violation of this
Code, the Authority may assess a monetary penalty of up to $500 per
offense. Each day on which a violation shall occur or continue shall
be deemed a separate and distinct offense. In addition to the monetary
penalty authorized by this section, to the extent that the Authority
incurs any identifiable cleanup costs associated with such violation
and/or failure to comply, the Authority may assess all cleanup and
remediation costs, or any portion thereof, to such person(s) or violating
entity. In addition to the penalties provided herein, the Authority
may also recover its reasonable attorneys' fees, its consulting engineers’
fees, court costs, and costs of litigation by appropriate suit at
law against the person found to have so violated or failed to comply.
[Added 1-9-2007 by Res. No. 2007-04]
From time to time, the Authority may establish
that, in addition to the rates, fees and charges established and set
forth in this chapter, there shall be an additional fair share obligation
payment. The fair share obligation payment shall be established by
the Authority to offset the costs of capital improvements needed to
increase the size/infrastructure of the Authority's collection system
due to the added wastewater proposed to be discharged by the developer
(payer of the fair share obligation) in question.
[Added 1-9-2007 by Res. No. 2007-04]
Any developer who has previously obtained from
the Delanco Township Planning/Zoning Board an approval for either
a minor or major subdivision or a final site plan approval and who
proposes to construct a sewerage collection system on the lots or
site plan shall, as previously required within this Code, submit to
the Authority a comprehensive plan of the proposed sewerage development.
In addition, the developer shall deposit with the Secretary of the
Authority a professional escrow which shall be held by the Authority
in an interest-bearing account in the name of the particular developer
until the project is reviewed, inspected and deemed complete by the
Authority's consulting professionals. The Authority will, on a monthly
basis, provide to the developer who has established an escrow account
an account statement as to the activity within the particular account
during the preceding month. In the event, at any time during the course
of the development, the initial amount established in the escrow account
is deemed insufficient, the developer shall, within 15 days' notice,
replenish the escrow in an amount established by the Authority to
complete the necessary professional review. In the event that a sewer
development escrow account is not replenished, the Authority's consulting
professionals shall have no further obligation to review, inspect
or approve a proposed sewer development. A sewer development escrow
account shall be funded by a developer in accordance with the following
escrow calculation formula:
A.
For any minor or major subdivision, the developer
shall establish an initial escrow of $100 per lot for the first 50
lots and $50 per lot for each lot thereafter.
B.
For any approved site plan, the developer shall deposit
with the Authority an escrow of $500 per acre for the first 10 acres
and $100 per acre thereafter.
