The following rates, rules and regulations shall form part of the contract with all users of the water services of the City of Vineland Water-Sewer Utility and shall be subscribed to by all persons applying for water service from said Utility.
The owner or owners of property or person or persons acting as their agent must sign all applications for water service or the extension of the distribution system, or such application will not be valid.
All applications shall be made to the Water-Sewer Utility, and if granted, the applicant or his duly authorized agent will sign a contract including his assent to these rules, rates and regulations, and at the same time, said applicant shall pay all charges of the Utility up to the commencement of the succeeding terms, including all the charges of the Utility incidental to the introduction and extension of the service applied for. The contract shall state the date, the name of the party, the kind and extent of the service applied for, the description and location of the property to be supplied and the rates and terms of payment. All water service taps are to be made by the Utility or its authorized agent in every case, with charges as per the schedule according to the size tap desired, it being expressly understood that curb stops, valves, curb boxes or roadway boxes are to be owned by the City.
[Amended 3-13-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-16]
A. 
Applications for the extension of the water distribution system shall be made only where sufficient demand for service warrants. City Council shall set the terms and conditions upon which such applications will be granted. Extensions of new mains will generally be made as local improvements with benefits from the same assessable to owners of abutting property in accordance with applicable law.
B. 
Any applicant adding to or extending the City of Vineland water public distribution system shall adhere to the Water Utility Infrastructure Standards document and rules during the planning, preconstruction, construction and post-construction phases of the project. The steps the contractor needs to take and the completed forms and data elements required to be provided back to the Water Utility Engineering office are outlined in this document in detail along with guidance on when and in what order they are required for the Water Utility to approve the project. Any failure to follow these steps may result in the withholding of those approvals from the Water Utility for the project and delays. At no time will extension and/or replacement of existing water main or addition of new water main in the water distribution system be permitted without an inspector on site. The applicant/contractor shall select an engineering firm for completing on-site inspections and water certifications from a list of third-party, prequalified inspection firms in the standards document. The applicant/contractor shall be responsible for all costs for the selected engineering firm for all provided services and it is the responsibility of the applicant/contractor to confirm all current billing rates from the selected prequalified engineering firms. As a first step, a performance bond of 30% based on the contractor's water construction cost estimates for the water main, in-line valves, hydrants and labor will be due to the Water Utility. The bond must be in a form of a letter of credit and is due prior to the start of construction. The maintenance bond will be held by the Water Utility for a period of 24 months, beginning at the completion date of the water main extension laboratory certification testing. Once the twenty-four-month period is over, the applicant must request, in writing to the Water Utility Engineer's office, for the release of the bond. In the event the new water main is considered private, the above bonds will be waived. All water main extensions and/or replacement of existing water mains shall be installed in complete compliance with the City of Vineland Water Utility Infrastructure Installation and Standards Manual which will be provided in all requests for proposal documents for public bid as well as projects for subdivisions that extend water service. All areas of excavation on public and/or private property must be restored to preexcavation condition to also include private properties impacted by the project. All required project deliverables documents must be provided to and approved by the Water Utility prior to final payment and/or formal acceptance for public use of the new infrastructure components.
[Amended 9-13-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-71]
All applications for water service shall continue in force from year to year unless notice, in writing, is given to the Water-Sewer Utility of a desire to terminate the service.
The Water-Sewer Utility will not tap its water main and run service to tree lines until application is properly executed and the tapping fee, as per the schedule, is paid in advance.
All water taps made and services installed after the passage of this Part 4 must be metered, except in cases where the applicant desires to have water for building purposes on flat-rate charges, and this supply must be metered if the Water-Sewer Utility so directs.
Each consumer must have installed at his own expense a stop and waste valve on the service pipe inside the building, said valve to be installed within one foot of where the service pipe enters said building, said valve so located and arranged that the water supply may be shut off without difficulty.
Before any change is made in the plumbing affecting the meter installation or the main stop and waste valve of any premises supplied with water by the Water-Sewer Utility, a written application for such change in plumbing must be made to the Utility.
[Amended 8-26-1986 by Ord. No. 86-46]
A. 
Water taps made for residential domestic water use shall not exceed one inch in accordance with the Water-Sewer Utility Water Conservation Plan on file with the State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
B. 
The two options for water taps for duplex residential dwellings are as follows:
(1) 
Each side of the dwelling may be provided with its own one-inch tap.
(2) 
A one-and-one-half-inch tap may serve both sides. Where a single one-and-one-half-inch tap is made, the one-and-one-half-inch meter shall be located in a meter box or vault located outside the building and as close as possible to the curb stop.
C. 
In all cases, the size of the service pipe entering the building shall be equal to the size of the tap made for the same.
[Added 8-13-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-52]
A. 
The attached rules and regulations be and are hereby adopted and are to be followed for any hydrant flow testing in the City of Vineland.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Said rules and regulations are on file in the City offices.
B. 
An application in the form and substance authorized by the Director of the Vineland Municipal Utilities be completed as attached hereto.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Said application is available in the City offices.
C. 
A fee of $300 per hydrant flow test be submitted with all completed applications.