[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills 12-20-2005 by Ord. No.
2005:32. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to prohibit the
spilling, dumping or disposal of materials other than stormwater to
the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) operated by the Township
of Parsippany-Troy Hills so as to protect the public health, safety
and welfare and to prescribe certain penalties for failure to comply.
A.
Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words used in
the plural number include the singular number, and words used in the
singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always
mandatory and not merely directory. The definitions below are the
same as or based on corresponding definitions in the New Jersey Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) rules at N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.2.
B.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
ILLICIT CONNECTION
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
NJPDES PERMIT
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
PERSON
PROCESS WASTEWATER
REFUSE CONTAINER
STORM DRAIN INLET
STORMWATER
WATERS OF THE STATE
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms,
phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated
herein unless their use in the text of this chapter clearly demonstrates
a different meaning:
Waste and wastewater from humans or household operations.
Any physical or nonphysical connection that discharges domestic
sewage, noncontact cooling water, process wastewater or other industrial
waste (other than stormwater) to the municipal separate storm sewer
system operated by the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, unless that
discharge is authorized under a NJPDES permit other than the Tier
A Municipal Stormwater General Permit (NJPDES Permit Number NJ0141852).
Nonphysical connections may include, but are not limited to, leaks,
flows or overflows into the municipal separate storm sewer system.
Nondomestic waste, including, but not limited to, those pollutants
regulated under Section 307(a), (b) or (c) of the Federal Clean Water
Act [33 U.S.C. § 1317(a), (b) or (c).]
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, man-made channels or storm drains) that is owned or operated
by the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills and is designed and used
for collecting and conveying stormwater.
A permit issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection to implement the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NJPDES) rules at N.J.A.C. 7:14A.
Water used to reduce temperature for the purpose of cooling.
Such waters do not come into direct contact with any raw material,
intermediate product (other than heat) or finished product. Noncontact
cooling water may, however, contain algaecides or biocides to control
fouling of equipment such as heat exchangers and/or corrosion inhibitors.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm or
association or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
Any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes
into direct contact with or results from the production or use of
any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, byproduct
or waste product. Process wastewater includes, but is not limited
to, leachate and cooling water other than noncontact cooling water.
Any waste container that a person controls whether owned,
leased, or operated, including dumpsters, trash cans, garbage pails
and plastic trash bags.
[Added 10-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:27]
An opening in a storm drain used to collect stormwater runoff
and includes, but is not limited to, a grate inlet, curb-opening inlet,
slotted inlet, and combination inlet.
[Added 12-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:38]
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface,
is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage
facilities or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams and bodies
of surface water or groundwater, whether natural or artificial, within
the boundaries of the State of New Jersey or subject to its jurisdiction.
[Added 10-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:27]
A.
The spilling,
dumping or disposal of materials other than stormwater into the municipal
separate storm sewer system (MS4) operated by the Township of Parsippany-Troy
Hills is prohibited. The spilling, dumping or disposal of materials
other than stormwater in such a manner as to cause the discharge of
pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system is also prohibited.
B.
Any person
who controls, whether owned, leased or operated, a refuse container
or dumpster must ensure that such container or dumpster is covered
at all times and shall prevent the spilling out or overflowing of
refuse.
[Added 10-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:27]
C.
Any person
who owns, leases or otherwise uses a refuse container or dumpster
must ensure that such container or dumpster does not leak or otherwise
discharge liquids, semiliquids, or solids to the municipal separate
storm sewer system(s) operated by the Township.
[Added 10-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:27]
[Amended 10-19-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:27]
Exceptions to the prohibitions described in § 357-3 above include the following:
A.
Water line flushing and discharges from potable water
sources.
B.
Uncontaminated groundwater (e.g., infiltration, crawl
space or basement sump pumps, foundation or footing drains, rising
groundwaters).
C.
Air-conditioning condensate (excluding contact and
noncontact cooling water).
D.
Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn watering
runoff).
E.
Flows from springs, riparian habitats and wetlands,
water reservoir discharges and diverted stream flows.
F.
Residential car washing water and residential swimming
pool discharges.
G.
Sidewalk, driveway and street wash water.
H.
Flows from fire-fighting activities.
I.
Flows from rinsing of the following equipment with
clean water:
(1)
Beach maintenance equipment immediately following
its use for its intended purposes;
(2)
Equipment used in the application of salt and de-icing
materials immediately following salt and de-icing material applications.
Prior to rinsing with clean water, all residual salt and de-icing
materials must be removed from equipment and vehicles to the maximum
extent practicable using dry cleaning methods (e.g., shoveling and
sweeping). Recovered materials are to be returned to storage for reuse
or properly discarded. Rinsing of equipment, as noted in the above
situation, is limited to exterior, undercarriage and exposed parts
and does not apply to engines or other enclosed machinery.
J.
Permitted
temporary demolition containers.
K.
Litter
receptacles, other than dumpsters or other bulk containers.
L.
Individual
homeowner trash and recycling containers.
M.
Refuse
containers at facilities authorized to discharge stormwater under
a valid NJDES permit.
N.
Large bulky
items, such as furniture, bound carpet and padding, and white goods
placed curbside for pickup.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
through an illicit connection to the municipal separate storm sewer
system operated by the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills any domestic
sewage, noncontact cooling water, process wastewater or any other
industrial waste (other than stormwater).
[Added 12-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:38[1]]
A.
Prohibited conduct. No person in control of private property (except
a residential lot with one single-family house) shall authorize the
repaving, repairing (excluding the repair of individual potholes),
resurfacing (including top coating or chip sealing with asphalt emulsion
or a thin base of hot bitumen), reconstructing or altering any surface
that is in direct contact with an existing storm drain inlet on that
property unless the storm drain inlet either:
B.
Design standard. Storm drain inlets shall comply with the following standard to control passage of solid and floatable materials through storm drain inlets. For purposes of this subsection, "solid and floatable materials" means sediment, debris, trash, and other floating, suspended, or settleable solids. For exemptions to this standard see Subsection B(3) below.
(1)
Grates.
(a)
Design engineers shall use either of the following grates whenever
a grate is used in pavement or another ground surface to collect stormwater
from that surface into a storm drain or surface water body under that
grate:
[1]
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) bicycle
safe grate, which is described in Chapter 2.4 of the NJDOT Bicycle
Compatible Roadways and Bikeways Planning and Design Guidelines (April
1996); or
[2]
A different grate, if each individual clear space in that grate
has an area of no more than 7.0 square inches, or is no greater than
0.5 inch across the smallest dimension.
(b)
Examples of grates subject to this standard include grates in
grate inlets, the grate portion (non-curb-opening portion) of combination
inlets, grates on storm sewer manholes, ditch grates, trench grates,
and grates of spacer bars in slotted drains. Examples of ground surfaces
include surfaces of roads (including bridges), driveways, parking
areas, bikeways, plazas, sidewalks, lawns, fields, open channels,
and stormwater basin floors.
(2)
Whenever design engineers use a curb-opening inlet, the clear space
in that curb opening (or each individual clear space, if the curb
opening has two or more clear spaces) shall have an area of no more
than 7.0 square inches, or be no greater than 2.0 inches across the
smallest dimension.
(3)
This standard does not apply:
(a)
Where the Municipal Engineer agrees that this standard would
cause inadequate hydraulic performance that could not practicably
be overcome by using additional or larger storm drain inlets that
meet these standards;
(b)
Where flows are conveyed through any device (e.g., end-of-pipe
netting facility, manufactured treatment device, or a catch basin
hood) that is designed, at a minimum, to prevent delivery of all solid
and floatable materials that could not pass through one of the following:
(c)
Where flows are conveyed through a trash rack that has parallel
bars with one-inch spacing between the bars; or
(d)
Where the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
determines, pursuant to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Rules at N.J.A.C. 7:4-7.2(c), that action to meet this standard is
an undertaking that constitutes an encroachment or will damage or
destroy the New Jersey Register listed historic property.
This chapter shall be enforced by the Health
Officer, or any of his authorized representatives, or the Police Department.
[Added 12-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010:38 ]
Any person violating this chapter shall be subject to any penalties imposed pursuant to § 1-17 of the Code.
