As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The individual official, board, department or agency established
and authorized by the state, county, Borough or other political subdivision
created by law to administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter
as adopted and amended from time to time.
The amount of capacity in a municipal sewer system reserved by or allocated to a property pursuant to Article VIII of this chapter or any previous policies or procedures of the Borough governing reservation or allocation of capacity.
Accepted or acceptable under an applicable standard stated
or cited in this chapter, or accepted as suitable for the proposed
use and under procedures and powers of the administrative authority.
Any person employed by the Borough or its boards and bodies
who is specifically authorized to inspect the construction of building
sewers and the connection of building sewers to collection sewers
and/or to enforce any of the other provisions of this chapter.
The discharge of a pollutant measured during a calendar day
or any twenty-four-hour period that reasonably represents the calendar
day for purposes of sampling. For pollutants with limitations expressed
in units of mass, the daily discharge is calculated as the total mass
of the pollutant discharged over the day. For pollutants with limitations
expressed in other units of measurement, the daily discharge is calculated
as the average measurement of the pollutant over the day.
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in milligrams per liter
(mg/l) utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter, under
standard laboratory procedure for five days at 20º C. The standard
laboratory procedure shall be equivalent to that in Standard Methods.
The Borough of Rocky Hill in the County of Somerset and State
of New Jersey.
The governing body of the Borough.
A structure having walls and a roof designed and used for
housing, shelter, employment, enclosure, support of or use by persons,
animals or property.
That part of the lowest piping of a drainage system which
receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside
the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning
three feet outside the building wall.
That part of the drainage system which extends from the end
of the building drain and conveys its discharge to a sewer, individual
sewage disposal system or other point of disposal.
That portion of a drainage system which does not drain by
gravity into the building sewer or building drain.
To determine the capacity or the gradation of volume of sewage
flowing from a sewer system.
As used in § 12-7[1] of this chapter, shall mean an improvement to an STP that
results in an upgrade of the treatment process(es).
The amount of chlorine, in milligrams per liter by weight,
which must be added to sewage to produce a specific residual chlorine
content, or to meet the requirements of some other objective, in accordance
with procedures set forth in "Standard Methods."
These regulations, subsequent amendments thereto, or any
emergency rule or regulation which the administrative authority, authorized
agent, collection system operator or Borough Engineer may lawfully
implement.
The Borough's collection sanitary sewers located under highways,
roads, streets, sanitary sewer easements, and rights-of-way with branch
service laterals that collect and convey sanitary sewage or industrial
wastes or a combination of both, and into which storm- , surface and
ground waters or unpolluted industrial waters or liquids are not intentionally
admitted.
The Borough employee who oversees operation and maintenance
of the municipal sewer system.
A sewer shared by or available to more than one property.
The charge established by the Borough for the connection
of a dwelling or other improved property into the municipal sewer
system.
Each individual building or house, whether constructed as
a detached unit or as one of a pair or row, which is designed or adaptable
to separate ownership or use as a family dwelling unit.
The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs or any successor
agency.
The releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying or dumping of a pollutant into the sewer system.
The waterborne wastes derived from ordinary living processes.
A room or group of rooms forming a single habitable unit
with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living,
sleeping, cooking and eating; and whose sewer connections and water
supply is within its own premises, separate from and completely independent
of any other dwelling unit.
The right of the Borough to use lands of another for purposes
of maintenance and operation of or conveyance of sewage in or to the
municipal sewer system.
With reference to any source of discharge of
any pollutant:
Information necessary to determine the identity,
amount, frequency, concentration, temperature, or other characteristics
(to the extent related to water quality) of any pollutant resulting
from any discharge from the source, or any combination of the foregoing.
Information necessary to determine the identity,
amount, frequency, concentration, temperature or other characteristics
(to the extent related to water quality) of pollutants which, under
an applicable standard or limitation, the source was authorized to
discharge (including, to the extent necessary for such purpose, a
description of the manner or rate of operation of the source).
A general description of the location and/or
nature of the source to the extent necessary to identify the source
and to distinguish it from other sources (including, to the extent
necessary for such purposes, a description of the device, installation,
or operation constituting the source)
Notwithstanding the above, the following information
shall be considered to be effluent data only to the extent necessary
to allow the Borough to disclose publicly that the source is (or is
not) in compliance with an applicable standard or limitation, or to
allow the Borough to demonstrate the feasibility, practicability,
or attainability (or lack thereof) of an existing or proposed standard
or limitation:
Information concerning research, or the results
of research, on any product, methods, device, or installation (or
any component thereof) which was produced, developed, installed, and
used only for research purposes; and
Information concerning any product, method,
device or installation (or any component thereof) designated and intended
to be marketed or used.
Any restriction on quantities, quality, discharge rates,
concentration of chemical, physical, thermal, biological or other
constituents of a pollutant.
The quantities of infiltration/inflow which can be economically
eliminated from a sewer system as determined in a cost effectiveness
analysis that compares the costs for correcting the infiltration/inflow
conditions to the total costs for transportation and treatment of
the infiltration/inflow.
The Borough Engineer or his duly authorized deputy, agent,
or representative.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment
facility such as an interceptor. A wastewater shall be considered
free of floatable oil if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater
does not interfere with the collection system.
The volume per time unit given to the flow of wastewater.
Solid waste resulting from preparation, cooking and dispensing
of food; from handling, storage and sale of food products and produce.
Gallons per day.
Subsurface water occupying the zone of saturation.
Any property within a sewered area upon which there is erected
a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy
or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary
sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
Nondomestic pollutants including but not limited to those
pollutants regulated under the Clean Water Act of 1977, P.L. 95-217.33,
and any amendments thereto.
Any solid, liquid or gaseous substance discharged, permitted
to flow or escape in the course of any industrial, manufacturing,
trade, commercial or business process or in the course of the development,
recovery or processing of natural resources, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
Water or other wastewater that enters a sewer system (including
sewer service connections and foundation drains) from the ground through
such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections or manholes.
Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow.
Water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system (including
sewer service connections) from sources such as, but not limited to,
roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, drains from
springs and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, stormwaters,
surface runoff, street wash waters or drainage. Inflow does not include,
and is distinguished from infiltration.
A device designed and installed so as to separate and retain
deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal wastes while
permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the drainage
system by gravity.
Inhibiting or disrupting the operation of a
treatment works or its treatment process so as to contribute to, or
cause a violation of any condition of a state or federal permit under
which the treatment works operates; or
Discharging industrial process wastewater which,
in combination with existing domestic flows, are of such volume and/or
strength as to exceed the treatment process design capacity; or
Preventing the use or disposal of sludge produced
by the Treatment Works in accordance with Section 405 of the Clean
Water Act of 1977, P.L. 95-217, 33, and any amendments thereto, any
regulations, 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.) and 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 Sludge and Septage; or
Discharging wastewater of any type or character
of such volume and/or strength to cause the Borough to exceed its
allocated capacity into the treatment works.
Weight-to-weight ratio; the milligrams-per-liter value multiplied
by the factor 8.345 shall be equivalent to pounds per million gallons
of water.
The sewer system operated and/or owned by the Borough.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection or
any successor agency.
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any property located in the sewered area.
A natural person, his heirs, executors, administrators or
assigns and also includes a firm, partnership or a corporation, its
successors or assigns. Singular includes plural; males includes female.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, and indicating
the degree of acidity and alkalinity of a substance.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical waste,
biological material, radioactive substance, thermal waste, wrecked
or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal
or agricultural waste or other residue discharge entering into the
waters of the state.
Any limitation on quantities, quality, rates and/or concentrations
of pollutants discharged into municipal or privately owned treatment
works adopted pursuant to "Pretreatment Standards for Sewerage," N.J.S.A.
58:11-49 et seq., the Jersey Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A.
58:10A-1 et seq. or any applicable federal, state or local regulations.
Any device or system which is used to treat wastes from any
facility whose operator is not the operator of the treatment works
and not a publicly owned treatment works. The fact that the Borough
may be a co-permittee, as required by the New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection, shall not result in a privately owned treatment
works being classified as a publicly owned treatment works.
A system for disposal of domestic sewage by means of a septic
tank or mechanical treatment, designed for use apart from a sewer
to serve a single establishment or building.
Any sewer system other than the municipal sewer system. The
fact that the Borough may be a co-permittee on any component of the
private sewer system, as required by the New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection, shall not result in a private sewer system
being classified as a municipal sewer system under this chapter.
The waste(s) described in Article VI of this chapter.
Any device or system used in the treatment (including recycling
and reclamation) of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid
nature which is operated or owned by a municipality or the state.
The definition includes sewers, pipes or other conveyances only if
they convey wastewater to a publicly owned treatment works providing
treatment.
A common sewer directly controlled by public authority.
Polyvinyl chloride.
Accumulated solids and liquids which are by-products of a
physical, chemical, biological, thermal or mechanical process or partial
process. Residuals include, as a minimum, sludge and septage.
Normal water-carried, household and toilet waste from improved
property.
A sewer that conveys sewage or industrial wastes or a combination
of both and into which storm- , surface and ground water or unpolluted
industrial wastes are not intentionally admitted.
The combination of liquid and solid residues resulting from
a treatment of waterborne domestic waste in subsurface disposal systems.
That part of the sewer system from the collection sewer to
the curbline or to a point one foot beyond the edge of the paved roadway
if there is no curbline. The collection sewer may not be located in
a public road or road right-of-way.
Any liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in
suspension or solution, and may include liquids containing chemicals
in solution.
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of a sewer system
used or usable for sewage collection purposes and to which ground-
, surface and storm water is not intentionally admitted.
The system of sewers and appurtenances for the collection,
transportation and pumping of sewage and industrial wastes.
Those portions of the Borough in which there is or shall
be constructed a sewer system in accordance with plans approved by
the Borough and as from time to time constructed and extended.
The areas in the Borough established by the Wastewater Management
Plan eligible for sewer service.
The charges established by Article X of this chapter.
All facilities, as of any particular time for collecting,
pumping, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and industrial
waste, situated in the sewered area.
Mandatory and permissive, respectively.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which,
in concentrations of any given constituent or in quantity of flow
exceeds for any period of more than 15 minutes duration, more than
five times its average hourly concentration of flow.
Wastes which require special treatment before entry into
the normal plumbing or sewer system.
The examination of analytical procedures set forth in the
most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water,
Sewage and Industrial Waste" published jointly by the American Public
Health Association, the American Waterworks Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federal.
A sewer used for conveying rainwater, service water, condensate,
cooling water or similar liquids.
Sewage treatment plant.
Any public or private street, highway, road, lane, court,
alley or public square.
A charge in addition to the normal sewer service charge which
is levied on those persons whose wastes are greater in strength than
the concentration value established as representative of normal sewage,
or who generate a greater volume of waste than their allocated capacity.
Solids that either float on the surface or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory
filtration. The standard laboratory procedure shall be equivalent
to that in the latest edition of Standard Methods.
Those substances, or combination of substances, which, after
discharge and upon exposure, ingestion or inhalation or assimilation
into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly
through food chains, will, on the basis of information available to
the Borough, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer,
genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions
in reproduction, or physical deformations, in such organisms or their
offspring.
Any device or systems, whether public or private, used in
the storage, treatment, recycling or reclamation of sanitary sewage
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 standard treatment
units and clear well facilities; and 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 storm sewer and sanitary
sewer systems.
The plan adopted by Montgomery Township pursuant to the Water
Quality Planning Act, N.J.S.A. 58:11A-1 et seq. and the N.J.A.C. 7:15
et seq.
