[Adopted by Ord. No. 26-1988 (§§ 23-17
to 23-22 of the 1979 Revised General Ordinances)]
The following definitions apply to this article:
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Ay wastes, including wastes from humans, households, commercial
establishments, industries and stormwater runoff, that are discharged
to or otherwise enter into the Township's sewage treatment facility.
Solely for the purposes of this article, any user, excluding
municipal collection systems, who discharges on any one day wastewater
into the Township's sewage treatment facility where:
The volume of industrial process wastewater
exceeds 25,000 gallons per day;
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 the domestic waste of the affected Township's
sewage treatment facility;
The volume of industrial process wastewater
in the discharge exceeds 5% or more of the average daily flow of the
Township's sewage treatment facility;
The discharge of industrial process wastewater
contributes, prior to any pretreatment, 5% or more of the daily mass
loading of any of the pollutants listed in Appendix B, Tables II-VI,
of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.1 et seq.;
The user of the Township's sewage treatment
facility is determined to be a hazardous waste facility under N.J.A.C.
7:26-12 and meets the requirements of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-4.2(b)1;
The user is determined to be an industrial waste
management facility under N.J.A.C. 7:14A-4;
The user has been found by the Department to
be in violation of state laws or regulations or local ordinances concerning
environmental issues;
The discharge consists of landfill leachate,
either pure or diluted by groundwater or surface runoff;
The discharge consists of significant quantities
of polluted groundwater which is pumped from the ground in order to
decontaminate an aquifer; or
The Department determines it would be consistent
with the intent of the Pretreatment Act or state Act to require a
permit for the indirect discharger.
Solely for the purposes of this article, significant indirect
user.
The solid residue and associated liquid resulting from the
physical, chemical or biological treatment of wastewater.
A.
Any person classified as a significant indirect user
(SIU), as defined in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.9, shall obtain a State of New
Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System/SIU permit prior to
the connection of any building or premises with any public sanitary
sewer. Each user must certify to the Township Engineer, prior to the
receipt of the municipal permit, the following information:
B.
A user not an SIU, as defined by N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.9
et seq., must submit a certificate to the Township Engineer indicating
that the provisions of N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1 et seq. are inapplicable for
the proposed usage and the basis for its statement.
A.
A user may not introduce wastewater into the treatment
work facility which contains toxics or other pollutants in amount
or concentration that endangers public safety and physical integrity
of the treatment works or causes violation of a permit or precludes
the selection of the most cost effective alternative for wastewater
treatment and sludge disposal.
B.
All nondomestic users are prohibited from introducing
into the publicly owned treatment works the following materials:
(1)
Waste which creates a fire or explosion hazard in
the treatment works.
(2)
Waste which causes corrosive structural damage to
the treatment works, including any waste with the pH of less than
5.0 unless the works is designed to accept such waste.
(3)
Any pollutant, including oxygen-demanding pollutants
(BOD et seq.), released in the discharge of such volume or strength
as to cause interference in the treatment works.
(4)
Heat in amounts which will inhibit biological activity
in the treatment works resulting in interference but in no case heat
in such quantities that the temperature at the treatment works exceeds
40° C. (104° F.), unless the treatment works is designed to
accommodate such heat.
A.
Each user of the treatment works shall be notified
annually by the Township of the rate and portion of the charges contributable
to wastewater treatment services.
B.
The cost of all extraneous flow shall be distributed
equally among all users. The Township shall establish a financial
management system that will accurately account for revenues generated
by the system and expenditures for operation and maintenance, including
replacement of the treatment system.
The requirements of this chapter shall be implemented
for the useful life of the treatments work as determined by the Township
Engineer.
Any person who violates any portion of this
article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not
exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day
during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
