Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
BOD [DENOTES "BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND" (FIVE DAY)]
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure contained in standard methods in five days at 20° C., expressed in terms of weight and concentration in milligrams per liter.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Hawthorne in the County of Passaic.
BUILDING SEWER
The piping of a household plumbing system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the property line or easement line.
COD (DENOTES "CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND")
The quantify of oxygen utilized in the oxidation of organic and oxidizable inorganic matter under standard laboratory procedures in three hours at 600° C., expressed in milligrams per liter.
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
Any person designated to inspect and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING
Any building not used exclusively as a residential dwelling house and not used for industry, as defined herein.
CURBLINE
The established curbline or, if no curbline has been established, then the line designated by the Municipal Engineer.
DEPARTMENT
The DPW of the Borough of Hawthorne or a duly appointed representative thereof.
DIRECTOR
Director of the DPW of the Borough or his authorized deputy, inspector, agent or representative.
ENGINEER
The Borough Engineer of the Borough of Hawthorne or his authorized deputy, inspector, agent or representative.
FLOATABLE OIL
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility. A wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.
GARBAGE
Solid waste from the domestic or commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage and sale of food.
HEALTH OFFICER
The Health Officer or the person duly licensed by the State of New Jersey and performing duties of Health Officer appointed by the Board of Health or governing body of the Borough of Hawthorne.
INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITY
Includes any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other subsurface facility and any above ground party thereof, intended or used for the disposable of sewage.
INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY
A charge to industrial users based on their use of PVSC facilities to repay the capital cost outlay of the federal share given PVSC under the provisions of applicable federal law allocable to the treatment of the wastes from the industrial users.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of domestic sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual under Division A, B, D, E or I or which discharges toxic pollutants into the PVSC treatment works.
LARGE COMMERCIAL USERS
Any nongovernmental, nonresidential user, except an industrial or tax exempt user, which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of domestic sanitary waste.
MAJOR INDUSTRY
An industrial user of PVSC facilities that has a flow of 50,000 gallons or more per average workday; has, in its waste, a toxic pollutant in toxic amounts; or is found by USEPA, NJDEP or PVSC to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, in the PVSC treatment works or upon the quality of the effluent from the PVSC treatment works.
NATURAL OUTLET
An outlet, including storm sewers and combined sewer overflows, into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or groundwater, including the Passaic River or any of its tributaries.
NJDEP
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
NPDES
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
PERSON
Any individual, form, company, partnership, association, society, corporation or group or society, and includes the State of New Jersey and agencies, districts, commissioners and political subdivision created by or pursuant to state law.
pH
The reciprocal of the logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Neutral water has a pH value of seven (a hydrogen concentration of 10). Lower pHs are alkaline.
PLUMBING INSPECTOR
The Plumbing Inspector duly appointed by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Hawthorne.
PRETREATMENT
The reduction in the amount or elimination of pollutants or the alteration of the natural pollutant properties in industrial wastes prior to the discharge of such wastes into the PVSC treatment works, whether such reduction, elimination or alteration is obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process change or other means.
PRIVATE SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Any sanitary sewerage system not a public sewerage system, whether with or without a treatment plant.
PUBLIC SEWER
A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency, public utility or the municipality.
PVSC
The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners.
SANITARY SEWER
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 water that are not admitted intentionally.
SANITARY WASTE
Waste derived principally from dwellings, office building and sanitary conveniences. When segregated from industrial wastes, may come from industrial plants or commercial enterprises.
SERVICE CONNECTION
The extension of the building sewer from the street property line or easement line to the street sewer.
SEWAGE
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater."
SEWER
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
All of the facilities for collecting, pumping, treating and disposing of sewage.
SHREDDED GARBAGE
The wastes from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in street sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in diameter.
SLUDGE
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent or 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.
SLUG
The discharge of industrial waste or any constituents thereof to the PVSC treatment works in such quantity that the average hourly discharge over any period of a two-hour duration is more than twice the daily average hourly discharge of industrial wastes or constitutes thereof.
STORM DRAIN
(Sometimes called "storm sewer.") A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water or unpolluted water from any source.
STRENGTH OF WASTE
A measurement of suspended solids and/or biochemical oxygen demand and/or chemical oxygen demand and/or any other parameter determined by PVSC as a fair indicator of the relative uses, other than volumetric, or PVSC facilities by industrial wastes.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
Total suspended matter that either floats on the surface of, or is in suspension in, water, wastewater or other liquids and that is removable by laboratory filtering as prescribed in Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and referred to as "nonfilterable residue."
TOXIC WASTES IN TOXIC AMOUNTS
As defined by USEPA in 40 CFR 129 (38 FR 24342, 9-7-73) and any superseding revisions.
UNIT
Any fixed quantity, amount, distance or measure used as a standard.
UNPOLLUTED WATER
Water quality equal to or better than the effluent criteria in effect or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards and would not be benefited by discharging to the sanitary sewers and wastewater treatment facilities provided.
USEPA
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
USER CHARGE
A charge levied on users of the PVSC treatment works, or that portion of the ad valorem taxes paid by a user, for the users' proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance, including replacement.
WASTEWATER
The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquids and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water and stormwater that may be present.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES
The structures, equipment and processes required to collect, carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
The PVSC facilities.
WATERCOURSE
A channel in which a flow of water occurs either continuously or intermittently.