Chapter 70 shall regulate the use and operation of the Borough of Washington wastewater treatment and collection system, the storm sewers and all appurtenances thereto.
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ACT or THE ACT
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL USER
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BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)
BONDS
BOROUGH
BOWMSU
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)
COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
COMPOSITE SAMPLE
COOLING WATER
COST
DISCHARGE
DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
EDU
EPA
FEDERAL CATEGORICAL PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
GARBAGE
GRAB SAMPLE
HOLDING TANK WASTE
INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT
INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL USER
INDUSTRIAL OR COMMERCIAL WASTEWATER
INFILTRATION
INFLOW
INHIBITORY TOXICITY
INTERFERENCE
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NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NJPDES)
NJDEP
OWNER
PERSON
pH
POLLUTANT
PRETREATMENT
PRETREATMENT STANDARDS
PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)
SANITARY SEWER
SERVICE CONNECTION
SLUG
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)
STATE
STATE ACT
STORM DRAIN or STORM SEWER
STORMWATER
SYSTEM
SYSTEM USER
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC POLLUTANT
TREATMENT FACILITIES
TREATMENT WORKS
USER
WASTEWATER
As used in this chapter, the following terms are defined as follows:
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the
"Clean Water Act," as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.
An authorized representative of an industrial or commercial
user who may be:
A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice
president, if the industrial or commercial user is a corporation.
A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial or commercial
user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.
A duly authorized representative of the individual designated
above if such representative is responsible for the overall operation
of the regulated facility, such as a position of plant manager, superintendent
or person of equivalent responsibility.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter for five days at 20° C. expressed in terms of
weight and concentration [milligrams per liter (mg/l)].
Bond anticipation notes or bonds issued in accordance with
the Local Bond Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:2-1 et seq.
The Borough of Washington.
The Borough of Washington Municipal Sewer Utility.
The quantity of oxygen required for the chemical oxidation
of organic matter in a liquid, expressed in milligrams per liter.
Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH and fecal
coliform bacteria and such additional pollutants as are now or may
be in the future specified and controlled in the Borough's NJPDES
permit, where the POTW is designed and utilized to treat and remove
such pollutants.
A sample consisting of several effluent portions collected
during a specific time period and combined to make a representative
sample.
Any water used for the purpose of carrying away excess heat
and which may contain biocides used to control biological growth or
other additives to protect against corrosion, scaling or the like.
As applied to wastewater facilities or extensions or additions
thereto, means the cost of acquisition or construction, including
improvement, reconstruction, extension or enlargement, the cost of
all lands, property, rights and easements acquired. The cost of demolition
or removal of any buildings or structures thereon, financing charges,
interest on bonds issued to finance wastewater facilities prior to
and during construction, the cost of plans and specifications, surveys
or estimates of costs and revenues, the cost of engineering, legal
services and any other expenses necessary or incident to the construction
or acquisition of wastewater facilities and the financing thereof.
The releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying or dumping of a pollutant into the waters of the state or
onto the land or into wells from which the pollutant might flow or
drain into said waters and shall include the release of any pollutant
into a municipal treatment works.
The liquid wastes from the noncommercial and noninstitutional
preparation, cooking and handling of food or containing human excrement
and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial facilities and institutions.
Equivalent dwelling unit, as defined in § 70-28 of this chapter.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Pretreatment standards as codified in 40 CFR, Chapter I,
Subchapter N, specifying quantities or concentrations of pollutants
or pollutant properties which may be discharged or introduced to a
POTW by existing or new industrial or commercial users in specific
industrial subcategories.
Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial preparation,
cooking, dispensing, handling, storage and/or sale of food.
A sample which is taken from a waste stream on a one-time
basis without regard to flow or time.
Any waste from holding tanks such as vessels, chemical toilets,
campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.
Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant, as defined
in this section.
Any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of nondomestic wastewater into the sewer.
The liquid wastes resulting from the processes employed in
industrial, manufacturing, trade, business or institutional establishments
or any other discharges, as distinct from domestic wastes.
Groundwater that enters the system through broken pipes,
defective pipe joints or illegal connections of foundation drains
or sump pumps.
Surface runoff that enters the system through manhole covers,
exposed broken pipe and defective pipe joints, cross-connections between
storm sewers and sanitary sewers and illegal connections of roof leaders,
cellar drains, yard drains, catch basins or sump pumps.
Any demonstrable inhibitory action of a substance on the
rate of general metabolism (including rate of reproduction) of living
organisms.
Inhibiting or disrupting the operation of a POTW or its treatment
process so as to contribute to, cause or increase a violation of any
condition of a state or federal permit under which the POTW operates;
or
Discharging industrial or commercial process wastewater which,
in combination with existing domestic flows, are of such volume and/or
strength as to exceed the POTW design capacity; or
Preventing the use or disposal of sludge produced by the POTW
in accordance with § 405 of the Act and 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.), the Federal
Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.),
§§ 2, 4 and 6 of the State Act (New Jersey Water Pollution
Control Act) and, to the extent practicable, the New Jersey Guidelines
for the Utilization and Disposal of Municipal and Industrial Sludges
and Septage.
The New Jersey system for issuing, modifying, suspending,
revoking and reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing discharge
permits pursuant to the State Act (N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq.). The
term also includes discharge permits (NPDES) issued pursuant to § 402
of the Act.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
The person who owns the real property that connects to or
is obligated to connect to the system.
Any individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation,
association, group or society, including the State of New Jersey,
and agencies, districts, commissions and political subdivisions created
by or pursuant to state law and federal agencies, departments or instrumentalities
thereof.
The logarithm (base 10) of the reciprocal of the concentration
of hydrogen ions in moles per liter of solution. Solutions with a
pH greater than seven are said to be basic; solutions with a pH less
than seven are said to be acidic; pH equal to seven is considered
neutral.
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, holding tank waste, incinerator
residue, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sludge, septage, munitions,
chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive substance, thermal
waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and
industrial, municipal or agricultural waste or other residue directly
or indirectly discharged into the waters of the state, the introduction
of which renders these waters detrimental or immediately or potentially
dangerous to the public health or unfit for public or commercial use.
The application of physical, chemical and/or biological processes
to reduce the amount of pollutants in or to alter the nature of the
polluting properties of wastewater prior to discharging such wastewater
into the treatment works.
All applicable federal or state rules and regulations implementing
§ 307 of the Act or N.J.S.A. 58:11-49, as well as any nonconflicting
state or local standards. In cases of conflicting standards or regulations,
the more stringent thereof shall be applied.
A treatment works as defined by § 212 of the Act,
which is owned in this instance by the Borough. For the purposes of
this article, POTW shall also include any sewers that convey wastewaters
to the POTW from persons outside the Borough who are, by contract
or agreement with the Borough, dischargers to the Borough's POTW.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions,
together with minor quantities of groundwater, stormwater and surface
waters that are not admitted intentionally.
The lateral sewer, which shall be owned and maintained by
the owner, from the structure to the sanitary sewer main.
Any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which,
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow,
exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than
five times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flows during
normal operation.
A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, 1972 (as revised), issued by the Executive Office of the President,
Office of Management and Budget.
The State of New Jersey.
The New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1
et seq.
A sewer which carries stormwater and surface waters and drainage,
but excludes sewage and industrial wastes other than unpolluted cooling
water.
Any flow occurring during or immediately following any form
of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.
The Borough's wastewater treatment and collection system
and includes the plants, structures or other real and personal property
acquired, constructed or operated, or to be financed, acquired, constructed
or operated, or any parts thereof, used for the storage, collection,
reduction, reclamation, disposal, separation or other treatment of
wastewater or sewage sludge or for the final disposal of residues
resulting from the treatment of wastewater, including but not limited
to pumping and ventilating stations, treatment plants and works, connections,
outfall sewers, interceptors, trunk lines and other appurtenances
necessary for their use or operation.
Depending on context, the person that owns the real property
that connects to or is obligated to connect to the system or any occupant
of said property, who is not the owner, but who connects to or seeks
to connect to the system with the owner's permission.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, wastewater or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
Those pollutants or combinations of pollutants, including
disease-causing agents, which, after discharge into the environment
in sufficient quantities and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation
or assimilation into any organism, either directly or indirectly by
ingestion 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 deformation in such organism or its offspring.
The definition of "treatment facilities" shall be the same
as "treatment works," as defined in this section.
Any device or system, whether public or private, used in
storage, treatment, recycling or reclamation of municipal or industrial
wastewater, including interceptor owners, 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 standby treatment units 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, industrial or commercial waste in combined or separate
stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
Any person who discharges, causes or permits the discharge
of wastewater into the Borough's wastewater treatment system.
The liquid and water-carried wastes from dwellings, commercial
buildings, industrial facilities and institutions, together with any
groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present, whether
treated or untreated, which is discharged into or permitted to enter
the Borough's treatment works.
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Terms not otherwise defined herein shall be as adopted in the latest
edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,
published by the American Public Health Association, the American
Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation;
the Federal Guidelines for State and Local Pretreatment Programs,
Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.; the New Jersey
Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq.; or Pretreatment
Standards for Sewage, etc., N.J.S.A. 58:11-49 et seq.
