Unless specifically defined below, words or
phrases used in this ordinance shall be interpreted so as to give
them the meaning they have in common usage and to give this ordinance
its most reasonable application. The definitions below are the same
as or based on the corresponding definitions in the Stormwater Management
Rules at N.J.A.C. 7:8-1.2.
BMP
Best management practices as contained in the New Jersey
Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual dated April 2004 and as
updated, available from www.njstormwater.com.
CAFRA PLANNING MAP
The geographic depiction of the boundaries for Coastal Planning
Areas, CAFRA Centers, CAFRA Cores and CAFRA Nodes pursuant to N.J.A.C.
7:7E-5B.3.
CORE
A pedestrian-oriented area of commercial and civic uses serving
the surrounding municipality, generally including housing and access
to public transportation.
COUNTY REVIEW AGENCY
An agency designated by the County Board of Chosen Freeholders
to review municipal stormwater management plans and implementing ordinance(s).
The county review agency may either be:
A.
A county planning agency; or
B.
A county water resource association created
under N.J.S.A. 58:16A-55.5, if the ordinance or resolution delegates
authority to approve, conditionally approve or disapprove municipal
stormwater management plans and implementing ordinances.
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
DESIGNATED CENTER
A state development and redevelopment plan center as designated
by the State Planning Commission such as urban, regional, town, village
or hamlet.
DESIGN ENGINEER
A person professionally qualified and duly licensed in New
Jersey to perform engineering services that may include, but not necessarily
be limited to, development of project requirements, creation and development
of project design and preparation of drawings and specifications.
DEVELOPMENT
The division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels;
the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration,
relocation or enlargement of any building or structure; any mining
excavation or landfill; and any use or change in the use of any building
or other structure, or land or extension of use of land, by any person,
for which permission is required under the Municipal Land Use Law,
N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. In the case of development of agricultural
lands, "development" means any activity that requires a state permit;
any activity reviewed by the County Agricultural Board (CAB) and the
State Agricultural Development Committee (SADC); and municipal review
of any activity not exempted by the Right to Farm Act, N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1
et seq.
DRAINAGE AREA
A geographic area within which stormwater, sediments or dissolved
materials drain to a particular receiving water body or to a particular
point along a receiving water body.
ENVIRONMENTALLY CRITICAL AREAS
An area or feature which is of significant environmental
value, including but not limited to stream corridors; natural heritage
priority sites; habitat of endangered or threatened species; large
areas of contiguous open space or upland forest; steep slopes; and
wellhead protection and groundwater recharge areas. Habitats of endangered
or threatened species are identified, using the Department's Landscape
Project as approved by the Department's Endangered and Nongame Species
Program.
EMPOWERMENT NEIGHBORHOOD
A neighborhood designated by the Urban Coordinating Council
in consultation and conjunction with the New Jersey Redevelopment
Authority pursuant to N.J.S.A. 55:19-69.
EROSION
The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by
water, wind, ice or gravity.
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
A surface that has been covered with a layer of material
so that it is highly resistant to infiltration by water.
INFILTRATION
The process by which water seeps into the soil from precipitation.
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT
Any development that provides for ultimately disturbing one
or more acres of land. Disturbance for the purpose of this rule is
the placement of impervious surface or exposure and/or movement of
soil or bedrock or clearing, cutting or removing of vegetation.
NODE
An area designated by the State Planning Commission concentrating
facilities and activities, which are not organized in a compact form.
NUTRIENT
A chemical element or compound, such as nitrogen or phosphorus,
which is essential to and promotes the development of organisms.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, Township of Bridgewater or political subdivision of this
state subject to municipal jurisdiction pursuant to the Municipal
Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter
backwash [(excluding single residential pools), sewage, garbage, refuse,
oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological
materials, medical wastes, radioactive substance [except those regulated
under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2011 et
seq.)] thermal waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand,
cellar dirt, industrial, municipal, agricultural and construction
waste or runoff or other residue discharged directly or indirectly
to the land, groundwaters or surface waters of the state or to a domestic
treatment works.
POLLUTANT
Includes both hazardous and nonhazardous pollutants.
RECHARGE
The amount of water from precipitation that infiltrates into
the ground and is not evapotranspired.
SEDIMENT
Solid material, mineral or organic, that is in suspension,
is being transported or has been moved from its site of origin by
air, water or gravity as a product of erosion.
SITE
The lot or lots upon which a major development is to occur
or has occurred.
SOIL
All unconsolidated mineral and organic material of any origin.
STATE PLAN POLICY MAP
The geographic application of the State Development and Redevelopment
Plan's goals and statewide policies, and the official map of these
goals and policies.
STORMWATER
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface
or is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewage or drainage
facilities or conveyed by snow removal equipment.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
Water flow on the surface of the ground or in storm sewers
resulting from precipitation.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT BASIN
An excavation or embankment and related areas designed to
retain stormwater runoff. A stormwater management basin may either
be normally dry (that is, a detention basin or infiltration basin),
retain water in a permanent pool (a retention basin) or be planted
mainly with wetland vegetation (most constructed stormwater wetlands).
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT MEASURE
Any structural or nonstructural strategy, practice, technology,
process, program or other method intended to control or reduce stormwater
runoff and associated pollutants or to induce or control the infiltration
or groundwater recharge of stormwater or to eliminate illicit or illegal
nonstormwater discharges into stormwater conveyances.
TIDAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA
A flood hazard area, which may be influenced by stormwater
runoff from inland areas, but which is primarily caused by the Atlantic
Ocean.
URBAN ENTERPRISE ZONES
A zone designated by the New Jersey Enterprise Zone Authority
pursuant to the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zones Act, N.J.S.A. 52:27H-60
et seq.
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AREA
Previously developed portions of areas:
A.
Delineated on the State Plan Policy Map (SPPM)
as the Metropolitan Planning Area (PA1), Designated Centers, Cores
or Nodes;
B.
Designated as CAFRA Centers, Cores or Nodes;
C.
Designated as Urban Enterprise Zones; and
D.
Designated as Urban Coordinating Council Empowerment
Neighborhoods.
WATERS OF THE STATE
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams, wetlands
and bodies of surface or ground water, whether natural or artificial,
within the boundaries of the State of New Jersey or subject to its
jurisdiction.
WETLANDS or WETLAND
An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or
groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and
that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly
known as "hydrophytic vegetation."
[Amended 11-20-2006 by Ord. No. 06-45]
Any person who erects, constructs, alters, repairs,
converts, maintains or uses any building, structure or land in violation
of this article shall be subject to the following penalties: not to
exceed $500 and/or imprisonment for a time not to exceed 90 days.
After notified of violation, each day of continuance thereof may,
in the discretion of the court, be treated as a separate and distinctive
violation hereof.