[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Brooklawn 7-1-1924 by Ord. No. 5. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The Water and Sewer Committee of the Mayor and
Borough Council shall have charge of all sewers and drains or conduits
within the Borough of Brooklawn, and all connections therewith shall
be constructed, made and kept in repair under the supervision of said
Committee, subject only to the revision by the Mayor and Borough Council.
[Amended 12-19-2016 by Ord. No. 20-16]
A.
The owner of every house, building and structure now erected and
the owner of every house, building and structure hereafter erected
or acquired, which may be occupied or used by human beings and is
located on a street, road, avenue or other public thoroughfare along
the line of any sanitary sewer, now constructed or hereafter constructed
in the Borough of Brooklawn shall, within six months of the adoption
of this ordinance,[1] connect and hook up said sewerage facilities emanating
from such house, building or structure to the sanitary sewerage system
of the Borough of Brooklawn.
[1]
Editor's Note: "This ordinance" refers to Ord. No. 20-16,
adopted 12-19-2016.
B.
The Water and Sewer Committee shall have power to stop and prevent
the discharge of sewage from any premises within the Borough into
any street, watercourse or other public place or into any cesspool,
drain or private sewer and may direct that the proper connection be
made with the public sewer for the removal of sewage from any premises
whenever it may seem to the Water and Sewer Committee that the public
interests will be served thereby.
No connection except for sewage shall be made
with either the lateral or main sewer.
All cesspools upon properties connected with
sewers shall immediately after such connection is made be abolished
and the vaults cleaned and filled up in the manner required by the
Board of Health.
All connections of private sewers and house
drains with the public sewers shall be made only by persons approved
by the borough, in writing, to make such connections, and persons
applying for such approval to tap the public sewer and make such connections
shall do so at such time and under such conditions as the said Committee
may direct.
[Added 4-18-2016 by Ord.
No. 6-16]
The property owner shall be responsible for the maintenance
of the sewer connection and the service lateral. The owner shall be
responsible for repair or maintenance of the service lateral, and
shall be held liable for any damage or extra costs to the sewer system
and/or Sewer Department, as a result of damage to or obstruction of
the service lateral or for failure to maintain the service lateral
and/or the sewer system caused by tampering or other act or neglect
of the property owner or other user of the property, including, without
limitation, tampering or other act or neglect in the maintenance or
use of the owner's service lateral. The owner shall keep the service
lateral in good repair and protect it from damage which might permit
the entrance into it/entry of any liquids or solids not originating
in the building which it serves. All leaks or breaks in the service
lateral shall be reported promptly to the Sewer Department. Repairs
to the service lateral shall be subject to the same requirements and
same inspection as provided for new service lateral connections.
Every person so approved as provided in § 118-5 shall execute a bond with the Borough of Brooklawn in the sum of $250, with two sufficient sureties, approved by the Mayor and Borough Council, conditioned that said person shall indemnify and save harmless the said borough against all damage and costs from any injury which may occur to persons, animals or property by reason of any neglect or carelessness on his part during the progress of said work or by reason of any injury or obstruction which he may do or cause to be done to any of the sewers or drains of said borough in any manner whatsoever, and that, before he shall proceed to open any of the streets, roads or avenues or other public places, he shall obtain a permit from the Borough Clerk, approved by a member of the Water and Sewer Committee, and he shall replace all streets, roads or avenues or any other public properties or places or any pavements over said openings immediately upon completion of the connections to as good condition and with the same material as he found it and shall maintain same in good condition for a space of six months to the satisfaction of said Water and Sewer Committee, and all openings made as herein before provided shall be closed in the same manner as herein contemplated within 48 hours after commencement of work.
All connections shall be carefully made and
in a workmanlike manner, and all pipe must be or iron or salt-glazed
vitrified earthenware and must be of good quality and impervious and
laid properly to grade and as nearly as possible in a straight line,
except at the connection with the sewer pipe, where the proper curved
pipe will be used to ease and change to the proper direction.
The streets, roads and avenues shall be opened
in such manner, and material excavated shall be so deposited, that
the public will be subjected to as little inconvenience as possible
and so as to provide for the free flow of water along the gutters.
[Amended 5-1-2000 by Ord. No. 9-00]
The sum of $500 shall be paid to the borough
at the time of the granting of said permit to connect each dwelling
house, and the sum of $1,000 shall be paid to the Borough at the time
of the granting of said permit to connect each store or building covering
not more than 25 feet of frontage, and each dwelling house, store
or building covering more than 25 feet of frontage shall pay proportionally
for the additional space or ground covered by each respectively, and
the fee for factories and the like applying for permission to connect
with any sewer or drain for water or any fluid that will not deposit
a sediment shall be fixed and determined by the Mayor and Borough
Council by special application therefor. The fee aforesaid shall be
paid to the Borough Clerk at the time of obtaining the permit aforesaid
and shall be paid over by him to the Borough Collector, and a report
thereof shall be made to the Mayor and Borough Council at the next
meeting thereof.
All contemplated new plumbing plans and specifications
shall, before the work of construction is commenced, be submitted
to the Borough Board of Health for its approval in such manner as
it may direct, and a fee of $3 shall be charged for such examination
and approval and collected before approval, and it shall be accounted
for and paid to the Collector of Taxes of the borough.
The said Water and Sewer Committee shall cooperate
with the Board of Health whenever the public good or necessity may
require.
A.
Discharge prohibited. Nonbiodegradable oil and grease
of a mineral or hydrocarbon origin shall not be discharged to the
sewer system.
B.
Interceptors required, generally. Oil and grease interceptors
shall be installed when, in the opinion of the Plumbing Subcode Official,
in accordance with N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.3, they are necessary for the proper
handling of liquid waste containing floatable biodegradable oil and/or
grease in excessive amounts, except that such interceptors shall not
be required for private dwelling units, in accordance with the provisions
of the plumbing subcode.
C.
Interceptors required, mandatory. Effective immediately,
oil and grease interceptors (grease traps) shall be installed in wastewater
lines leading from sinks, drains or other oil and grease waste-handling
facilities in new and existing eating, drinking and food preparation
establishments, including but not limited to those listed below, to
intercept, separate and accumulate excessive amounts of oil and grease
for proper removal, unless the Plumbing Subcode Official shall make
a specific determination, in writing, and after examination that an
interceptor is not required:
(1)
Restaurants and cafeterias.
(2)
Hotel/motel kitchens and full-service bars.
(3)
Factory cafeterias or restaurants.
(4)
Tavern kitchens.
(5)
Office and commercial building cafeterias.
(6)
Fast-food restaurants.
(7)
School cafeterias.
(8)
Church and Fire Department kitchens used more frequently
than two meals per week.
(9)
Bakery kitchens.
(10)
Meat and seafood preparation stores.
D.
Type and capacity. All interceptors shall be of a
type and capacity approved by the Plumbing Subcode Official and shall
be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and
inspection. Oil and grease interceptors shall be the two-chamber type
with inlet and outlet baffles, constructed of precast concrete or
cast iron or other approved material and shall be located as close
as possible to the wastewater source. The interceptor shall be of
adequate capacity to trap the quantity of oil and grease contained
in the wastewater. The required flow capacity shall be calculated
from the number and kind of sinks or fixtures discharging to the interceptor.
In addition, the interceptor should be rated on its accumulated grease
capacity, which is the amount of grease (in pounds) that the trap
can hold before its avenge efficiency drops below 90%. The grease
retaining capacity in pounds shall equal at least twice the flow rating
in gallons per minute. Recommend minimum flow rate capacities of interceptors
(traps) connected to different types of fixtures is given in the following
table.
|
Recommended Ratings for Commercial Grease
Traps
| |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Type of Fixture
|
Rate of Flow
(gallons per minute)
|
Grease Retention Capacity
(pounds)
|
Maximum Capacity of Fixture Connected
to Trap
(gallons)
| ||
|
Restaurant kitchen sink
|
15
|
30
|
50
| ||
|
Single compartment scullery sink
|
20
|
40
|
50
| ||
|
Double compartment scullery sink
|
25
|
50
|
62.5
| ||
|
2 single compartment sinks
|
25
|
50
|
62.5
| ||
|
2 double compartment sinks
|
35
|
50
|
87.5
| ||
|
Dishwashers for restaurants:
| |||||
|
Up to 30 gallons water capacity
|
15
|
80
|
50
| ||
|
30 to 50 gallons water capacity
|
25
|
50
|
62.5
| ||
|
50 to 100 gallons water capacity
|
40
|
80
|
100
| ||
E.
Maintenance of interceptors. All installed interceptors
shall be properly maintained by the owner of the property where the
interceptor is installed. The owner shall maintain records of the
dates and manner of disposal, and said records shall be available
for review by the Plumbing Subcode Official upon request. In addition,
the interceptor itself shall be subject to inspection by the Plumbing
Subcode Official at any time. The interceptor shall be cleaned as
and when necessary for its proper operation and, at a minimum, shall
be cleaned when 75% of the grease retention capacity has been reached.
The owner of the property where the interceptor is installed is responsible
for the proper removal and disposal by appropriate means of the collected
material. Any removal and hauling of the collected materials shall
be performed by currently licensed waste disposal firms.
F.
Replacement of interceptors. Any replacement of an
existing interceptor shall be as required by the Plumbing Subcode
Official in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the
applicable provisions of the Uniform Construction Code.[1]
G.
Compliance. All new establishments, where required by Subsection B or C, above, and all existing establishments of the type of use set forth in Subsection C above, shall comply with the provisions of this chapter prior to any new sewer connection being made or prior to continued use of the existing connection. Existing uses required to comply with the provisions hereof shall complete all compliance within 180 days from the effective date hereof. Owners of existing establishments shall notify the Plumbing Subcode Official in writing of the intent to install an adequate oil and grease interceptor, which shall be accompanied by a drawing and specification of the proposed installation prepared by a licensed engineer or plumber and shall be inspected and approved upon completion by the Plumbing Inspector. Existing establishments presently possessing operating oil and grease interceptors shall have such installations inspected for adequacy and compliance by the Plumbing Subcode Official. In any inspection, evaluation or enforcement of any provision of this chapter, the Plumbing Subcode Official may request the assistance of the Borough Engineer. After the initial one-hundred-eighty-day period for compliance hereunder, any violations of the provisions hereof shall be subject to the provisions and penalties set forth in § 72-6. Nothing herein shall prevent the enforcement of any other provision of this chapter for any other violation of any required maintenance or provision during the one-hundred-eighty-day grace period.
[Added 6-30-2009 by Ord. No. 10-09; amended 5-21-2012 by Ord. No.
5-12; 6-15-2015 by Ord. No. 10-15; 6-20-2016 by Ord. No. 10-16]
A.
Meter charge.
[Amended 5-17-2021 by Ord. No. 9-2021]
(1)
The quarterly meter charge to be imposed on all sewer service connections
for residential uses within and without the Borough of Brooklawn for
meter sizes less than one inch shall be as follows:
(a)
Effective January 1, 2021: $59.
B.
The bill for the year 2009 shall be for the period of time commencing
on July 1, 2009, through December 31, 2009. The bill for both the
third and fourth quarters of 2009 shall be payable on October 1, 2009.
Thereafter, bills shall be payable on or before February 1, May 1,
August 1 and November 1 as they are rendered on a quarterly basis,
in advance.
C.
All charges for services not specifying a due date shall be due and
payable when presented.
D.
A penalty of 1 1/2% per month or fraction thereof will be assessed
to all bills for charges not paid within 30 days of the date on which
said bill is due and payable. All bills shall be payable to the Brooklawn
Tax Collector.
E.
Rates for uses other than residential uses shall be set by resolution
of the Mayor and Borough Council.
F.
Notwithstanding any section or chapter of this Code to the contrary,
the quarterly meter charge to be imposed on all service connections
for properties subject to a $250 reduction in property taxes, pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 54:4-8.40, shall be $27.
[Amended 5-17-2021 by Ord. No. 9-2021]
[Added 6-30-2009 by Ord. No. 10-09]
A.
Any person, firm, association or corporation violating any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the fines and/or penalties as set forth in § 1-15 of the Code of the Borough of Brooklawn.
B.
In addition to or in lieu of the above fines and penalties, any person who violates the provisions contained in § 118-13 above shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the mandatory fines established by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy for each instance of noncompliance, including the provision for escalation of penalties for the occurrence of repeat violations within a period of four months, all pursuant to the New Jersey Clean Water Enforcement Act. Willful gross violations, including false certification, may be prosecuted by the Borough as perjury, including the cessation of the commercial or institutional operation, with a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5,000 and/or a term of imprisonment not exceeding 90 days.
