Town of Phillipsburg, NJ General Provisions

Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

All analysis shall be performed in accordance with the analytical test procedures approved under 40 CFR Part 136. Analysis for those pollutants not covered therein shall be performed in accordance with procedures approved by NJDEP.

AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF INDUSTRIAL USER

An authorized representative of an industrial user may be:

(1)

A principal executive officer of at least the level of vice president, if the industrial user is a corporation.

(2)

A general partner or proprietor, if the industrial user is a partnership or proprietorship, respectively.

(3)

A duly authorized representative of the individual designated under Subsection (1) or (2) of this definition, 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).

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMP)

Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce pollutants in discharges, to implement the prohibitions listed in National Pretreatment Standards pursuant to 40 CFR 403.5(a)(1) and (b), and prevent the discharge of substances that may contribute to sanitary sewer overflows. BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage.

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD)

The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter for five days at 20° C. expressed in terms of concentration, i.e., milligrams per liter (mg/l), in accordance with standard test methods.

CATEGORICAL INDUSTRIAL USER

An industrial user subject to categorical standards in accordance with the EPA General Pretreatment Standards (40 CFR Part 403).

CATEGORICAL STANDARDS

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 users in specific industrial subcategories.

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (COD)

A measure of the oxygen-consuming capacity of inorganic and organic matter present in water or wastewater, expressed as the amount of oxygen consumed from a chemical oxidant in accordance with an approved test procedure.

COMMISSIONER

The Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) or his/her authorized representative.

COMPATIBLE POLLUTANT

Biochemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, pH, fecal coliform bacteria and such additional pollutants as are or may in the future be specified and controlled in the Town (control authority)'s NJPDES permit, where the POTW is designed to treat such pollutants and, in fact, does treat such pollutants to the degree required by the NJPDES permit.

COMPOSITE SAMPLE

A sample consisting of several aliquots collected during a specified time period and combined to make a representative sample.

CONDITIONALLY EXEMPT USER

Any participant that conducts a dry operational process, thereby discharging only domestic wastewater into the sewer system; however, by means of in-house procedures, has the potential to discharge wastewater material of a quantity which would impact on the treatment works.

CONSISTENT REMOVAL

A reduction in the amount of a pollutant or alteration of the nature of the pollutant by the wastewater treatment system to a less toxic or to a harmless state, as measured according to the procedures set forth in 40 CFR 403.7 of the General Pretreatment Regulations for Existing and New Sources of Pollution.

CONTROL AUTHORITY

Refers to the Town of Phillipsburg.

COOLING WATER

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 the system against corrosion, scaling or other additives.

DISCHARGE

The releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of a waste material into the waters of the state or onto the land or into wells which might flow or drain into said waters, and shall include the release of any pollutant or waste stream into a municipal treatment works.

DOMESTIC WASTEWATER

The liquid-borne waste discharged from residential units, normally resulting from the noncommercial preparation, cooking and handling of food and wastes from sanitary conveniences.

EMERGENCY

A situation which, in the opinion of the approval authority or his/her authorized representative, may cause interference and/or pass-through damage to the POTW or present a health hazard to personnel, the general public or the environment.

ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE PLAN (ERP)

A plan developed by the Town (control authority) which details the response which will be taken by the Town (control authority) for various violations of the industrial pretreatment program portion of this Sewer Use chapter, a pretreatment standard, or any other applicable law. The ERP is a supplement to these rules and regulations and is available through the Town (control authority).

EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency.

EXEMPT FACILITY

Any participant that conducts a dry-operational process and has no potential to discharge nondomestic wastewater.

EXISTING FACILITIES

Food processing or food service facilities which existed prior to the effective of this chapter.

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EXISTING USER or EXISTING INDUSTRIAL USER

Includes all persons discharging wastewater to treatment works of the Town (control authority) or the participants at the time this chapter is adopted by the Town (control authority).

FATS, OILS, AND GREASES (FOG)

Organic polar compounds derived from. animal and/or plant sources that contain multiple carbon chain triglyceride molecules. These substances are detectable and measurable using analytical test procedures established in 40 CFR 136, as may be amended from time to time. All are sometimes referred to herein as "grease" or " greases."

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FOG DISPOSAL SYSTEM

A grease interceptor that reduces nonpetroleum FOG in effluent by separation, and mass and volume reduction.

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FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS (FSE)

Any permanently fixed location that produces, prepares, processes handles or serves food or that disposes of food -related wastes as part of its retail, business or business activity. The term shall also be given its normal industry definition. This term shall not include those establishments that sell only prepackaged food/drink and do not serve the food/drink within the establishment.

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GARBAGE

Solid waste from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking, dispensing, handling, storage and/or sale of food.

GENERATOR

Any person who owns or operates a grease trap/grease interceptor, or whose act or process produces a grease trap waste.

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GRAB SAMPLE

A sample taken from a waste stream on a one-time basis without regard to flow or time.

GREASE INTERCEPTOR

An appurtenance or appliance that is installed in a sanitary drainage system to intercept nonpetroleum FOG from a wastewater. There are two types of grease interceptors: gravity grease interceptors and hydromechanical grease interceptors.

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GREASE INTERCEPTOR, GRAVITY OR CGI

A plumbing appurtenance or appliance that is installed in a sanitary drainage system to intercept nonpetroleum FOG from a wastewater discharge and is identified by volume, thirty-minute retention time, baffle(s), a minimum of two compartments, a minimum total volume of 300 gallons, and gravity separation. These interceptors are designed by a registered professional engineer. Gravity grease interceptors are generally installed outside.

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GREASE INTERCEPTOR, HYDROMECHANICAL OR HGI

A plumbing appurtenance or appliance that is installed in a sanitary drainage system to intercept nonpetroleum FOG from a wastewater discharge and is identified by flow rate and separation and retention efficiency. The design incorporates air entrainment, hvdromechanical separation interior baffling, and/or barriers in combination or separately, and an external flow control, with an air intake (vent).

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GREASE REMOVAL DEVICE (GRD)

Any hvdromechanical grease interceptor that automatically mechanically removes nonpetroleum FOG from the interceptor, the control of which are either automatic or manually initiated.

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GREASE WASTE

Material collected in and from a grease interceptor in the sanitary sewer service line of a commercial, institutional, or industrial food service or processing establishment, including the solids resulting from the dewatering processes.

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HAZARDOUS WASTE

A waste which meets the criteria as a hazardous waste as defined in the New Jersey hazardous waste regulations at N.J.A.C. 7:26G-1, 3-12 et seq.

HOLDING TANK WASTE

Any waste from holding tanks, such as vessels, chemical toilets, campers, trailers, septic tanks and vacuum-pump tank trucks.

INCOMPATIBLE POLLUTANT

Any pollutant which is not a compatible pollutant.

INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGE PERMIT

A permit duly issued by the approval authority, or participant if the program is delegated pursuant to § 492-12, to any industrial user in accordance with this chapter. Such permit may establish discharge limitations, monitoring and reporting obligations, and other requirements that are more or less stringent than this chapter.

INDUSTRIAL PROCESS WASTEWATER

The liquid waste or liquid-borne waste resulting from the processes employed by any person identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented under one of the following divisions:

(1)

Division A: Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing.

(2)

Division B: Mining.

(3)

Division D: Manufacturing.

(4)

Division E: Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services.

(5)

Division I: Services.

INDUSTRIAL USER

Any user which discharges nondomestic wastewater in a quantity or quality which is determined to have a potential for adversely impacting the Town's (control authority's) sewer system. Industrial users are further classified according to the degree of potential as:

(1)

CLASS I USER (SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL/INDIRECT USER)Any industrial user discharging industrial process wastewater where either:

(a)

An industrial user subject to categorical pretreatment standards under 40 CFR 403.6 and 40 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter N; or

(b)

An industrial user that:

[1]

Discharges an average of 25,000 gpd or more of process wastewater to the POTW (excluding sanitary, noncontact cooling and boiler blowdown wastewater);

[2]

The amount of BOC, COD or suspended solids in the industrial process wastewater discharge exceeds the mass equivalent of 25,000 gpd of the domestic waste at the treatment plant;

[3]

Contributes a process wastestream which makes up 5% or more of the average dry weather hydraulic or organic capacity of the POTW treatment plant; or

[4]

Is designated as such by the Town (control authority) on the basis that it has a reasonable potential for adversely affecting the POTW's operation or for violating any pretreatment standard or requirement.

(2)

CLASS 2 USER (NONSIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER)Any user that discharges nondomestic wastewater into the sewer system in amounts that, on a routine basis, have an insignificant impact on the treatment system, but which may have the potential to impact the collection or treatment system, or violate the prohibited discharge limitations in this chapter. This class also includes any user which presents the potential to cause sewer obstructions, slug loads or chemical spills.

(3)

CLASS 3 USER (NON SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER)Any user which has a very small potential to impact the treatment system through the discharge of oil and grease, storage of chemicals, etc., or are otherwise considered to have a minor impact on the treatment system. These users will be checked periodically to determine if there has been any significant change in the quantity or quality of their discharge.

INTEREFERENCE

(1)

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;

(2)

Discharging industrial process wastewater which, in combination with existing domestic flows, are of such volume or strength as to exceed either the industrial user's permit conditions, the concentrations set forth in Table 1, the requirements approved by the approval authority or the Sewer Use Ordinance of the participant where the discharge is located or any combination of the foregoing; or

(3)

Preventing the approved use or disposal of sludge produced by the POTW in accordance with Section 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.), Sections 2, 4 and 6 of the State Act and, to the extent practicable, the New Jersey Guidelines for the Utilization and Disposal of Municipal and Industrial Sludges and Septage.

IPP

Industrial pretreatment program as administered by the control authority and/or the NJDEP.

LOCAL DISCHARGE PERMIT

Discharge permit issued by the Town of Phillipsburg and/or its designated representative.

LOCAL LIMIT

Specific discharge limits developed and enforced by the Town (control authority) upon industrial or commercial facilities to implement the general and specific discharge prohibitions listed in 40 CFR 403.5 (a) (1) and (b).

MEDICAL WASTE

Isolation wastes, infectious agents, human blood and blood products, pathological wastes, sharps, body parts, contaminated bedding, surgical wastes, potentially contaminated laboratory wastes, dialysis wastes, and such additional medical items as the control authority prescribes by regulation.

NEW FACILITIES

Food processing or food service facilities which are newly proposed or constructed, or existing facilities which will be expanded or renovated to include a food service facility, where such a facility did not previously exist.

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NJDEP

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NJPDES)

The New Jersey system for the issuing, modifying, suspending, revoking, reissuing, terminating, monitoring and enforcing discharge permits pursuant to the State Act. The term also includes discharge permits (NPDES) issued pursuant to Section 402 of the Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.).

NONDELEGATED LOCAL AGENCY (NLA)

A local agency where NJDEP assumes the responsibility for implementing the IPP requirements set forth in 40 CFR Part 403.

NONDOMESTIC

Wastewater of a quantity or quality which would have an impact on the treatment works.

NONCONTACT COOLING WATER

Water used for cooling that does not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product, waste product, or finished product.

NONSIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER

A Class 2 or Class 3 User as defined under "industrial user."

O&M

Operation and maintenance.

PASS-THROUGH

A discharge which exits the POTW into the waters of the United States in quantities or concentrations which, along or in conjunction with a discharge or discharges from other sources, is a cause of a violation of any requirement of the Town's NJPDES permit, including an increase in the magnitude or duration of a violation.

PARTICIPANT

All the municipalities, local sewerage authorities, companies or customers that sign a service agreement that provides for the treatment of sewerage by the Town's treatment works.

PERMITTED INDUSTRIAL USER

Any participant who discharges nondomestic wastewater into the sewer system which is regulated by means of an industrial pretreatment permit.

PERMITTING AGENCY

The Town (control authority) or NJDEP.

PERSON

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 therefor.

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. Analysis shall be performed in accordance with an approved test procedure.

POLLUTANT

Any dredged spoil, solid waste, holding tank waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, 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 substance discharged directly or indirectly 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.

PRETREATMENT

The application of physical, chemical and/or biological processes, except by dilution, to reduce the amount of pollutants in or alter the nature of the polluting properties of wastewater prior to discharging such wastewater into the treatment works.

PRETREATMENT STANDARDS

All applicable federal or state rules and regulations implementing Section 307 of the Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.) or N.J.S.A. 58:11-49, as well as nonconflicting state or local standards. In cases of conflicting standards or regulations, the more stringent shall apply.

PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS (POTW)

Treatment works owned and operated by the Town (control authority) or any participant.

REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR

The Regional Administrator for Region II of the United States Environmental Protection Agency or his/her authorized representative.

SIGNIFICANT INDIRECT USER

A significant industrial user as defined herein.

SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER

A Class I user as defined herein.

SIGNIFICANT VIOLATION

(1)

Chronic violations of wastewater discharge limits, defined as those in which 66% or more of all of the measurements taken during a six-month period exceed (by any magnitude) the daily maximum limit or the average limit for the same pollutant parameter;

(2)

Technical review criteria (TRC) violations, defined as those in which 33% or more of all the measurements for each pollutant parameter taken during a six-month period equal or exceed the product of the daily average maximum limit or the average limit times the applicable TRC (TRC-1.4 for BOD, TSS, fats, oil and grease, and TRC-1.2 for all other pollutants except pH);

(3)

Any other violation of a pretreatment effluent limit (daily maximum or longer-term average) that the approval authority determines has caused, along or in combination with other discharges, interference or pass through (including endangering the health of POTW personnel or the general public);

(4)

Any discharge of a pollutant that has caused imminent endangerment to human health, welfare or to the environment or has resulted in the POTW's exercise of its emergency authority to halt or prevent such a discharge;

(5)

Failure to meet, within 90 days after the scheduled date, a compliance schedule milestone contained in the permit or enforcement order for starting construction, completing construction or attaining final compliance;

(6)

Failure to provide, within 30 days after the due date, required reports such as baseline monitoring reports, ninety-day compliance reports and reports on compliance with compliance schedules;

(7)

Failure to accurately report noncompliance; or

(8)

Any other violation or group of violations which the approval authority determines will adversely affect the operation or implementation of the local pretreatment program.

SLUG DISCHARGE

Any discharge to the sanitary sewerage system of a nonroutine, episodic nature, including but not limited to an accidental spill or a noncustomary batch discharge, which has a reasonable potential to cause interference or pass-through, or in any other way violate the Town's (control authority's) regulations, local limitations, or permit conditions.

STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (SIC)

A classification pursuant to the Standard Industrial Classification Manual 1987 (as revised) issued by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget.

STATE

State of New Jersey.

STATE ACT

The New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq.

STORMWATER

Any flow occurring during or immediately following any form of natural precipitation and resulting therefrom.

SUSPENDED SOLIDS

The total nonfilterable residue, as defined in Manual of Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes and analyzed in accordance with an approved test procedure.

TOTAL TOXIC ORGANICS

The following compounds, which encompass EPA Method No. 613, 624 (Parts 601-602) and 625 (Parts 604-12) and any applicable amendments not listed herein:

PARAMETER		EPA METHOD NO.
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzeno-p-dioxin		613
Purgeables		624
Purgeable halocarbons, including:		Part 601
	Bromoform
	Bromodichloramethane
	Bromomethane
	Carbon tetrachloride
	Chlorobenzene
	Chloroethane
	2-Chloroethyl vinyl ether
	Chloroform
	Chloromethane
Dibrornohloromethane
1,2-Dichlorobenzene
1,3-Dichlorobenzene
1,4-Dichlorobenzene
Dichlorodifluoromethane
1,1-Dichloroehane
1,2-Dichloroethane
1,1-Dichloroethane
trans-1,2-Dichloroethene
1,2-Dichloropropane
cis-1,3-Dichloropropene
trans-l,2-Dichloropropene
Methylene chloride
1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane
Tetrachloroethene
1,1,1-Trichioroethane
1,1,2-Trichloroethane
Trichloroethene
Trichlorofluoromethane
Vinyl chloride
Purgeable aromatics, including:		Part 602
	Benzene
	Chiorobenzene
	1,2-Dichlorobenzene
	1,3-Dichlorobenzene
	1,4-Dichlorobenzene
	Ethylbenzene
	Toluene
Base/neutral, acids and pesticides		Part 602
Phenols, including:		Part 604
	4-Chlro3-methylphenol
	2-Chlorophenol
	2,4-Dichlorophenol
	2-Methyl-4,6dinitrophenol
	2-Nitrophenol
	4-Nitrphenol
	Pentachlorophenol
	Phenol
	2,4,6-Trichlorophenol
Benzidines, including:
	Benzidene	Part 605
	3,3Dichlorobenzidene
Phthalate esters, including:		Part 606
	Benzy butyl phthalate
	Bis- (2-ethylexyl) phthalate
	Di-n-butyl phthalate
	Di-n-octylphthalate
	Diethyl phthalate
Nitrosatmines, including.		Part 607
	N-nitrosodimethylamine
	N-nitrosociphenylamine
	N-nitrosodi-n-propylamine
Organochlorine pesticides and PCBs, including:		Part 608
Aldrin
	a-BHC
	b-BHC
	d-BHC
	g-BHC
	Chlordane 4,4-DDD 4,4-DDE
	4,4-DDT
	Dieldrin
	Endosultan I
	Endosultan II
	Endosultan sulfate
	Endrin
	Endrin aldehyde
	Heptachlor Heptachlor epoxide
	Toxaphene
	PCB-016
	PCB-1221
	PCB-1232
	PCB-1242
	PCB-1248
	PB-1254
	PCB-1260
Nitroaromatic and isophorone, including:		Part 609
	Isophorone
	Nitrobenzene
	2,4-initrotoluene
	2,6-Dinitrotoluene
Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons including:		Part 610
	Acenaphthene
	Acenaphythlene
	Anthracene
	Benzo(a)anthracene
	Benzo(b)pyrene
	Benz(b)thoranthene
	Benzo(g)perylene
	Bezo(k)fuoranthene
	Chrysene
	Dibenzo(a,h) anthracene
	Fluoranthene
	Fluorene
	Indeno(1, 2, 3,-cd)pyrene
	Naphthalene
	Phenanthrene
	Pyrene
Haloethers, including:		Part 611
	Bis- (2-chloroethyp) ether
	Bis- (2-chloroethoxy) methane
	Bis- (2-chloroisopropyl) ether
	4-Bromophenyl phenyl ether
	4-Chlorophenyl phenyl ether
Chlorinated hydrocarbons, including:		Part 612
	Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
	Hexachlorobenzene
	Hexachlorobutadiene
	Hexachloroethane
	1,2-Dichlorobenzene
	1,2,4-Dichlorobenzene
	1,3-Dichlorobenzene
	1,4-Dichlorobenzene
	2-Chloronaphthalene

TOWN

The Town of Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey.

TOXIC POLLUTANT

Those pollutants or combinations of pollutants, including disease-causing agents, which, after discharge and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation into any organism, either directly or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, may, on the basis of information available to the Commissioner, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutants, physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions in reproduction, or physical deformation, in such organisms or their offspring. Toxic pollutants shall include but not be limited to those pollutants designated under Section 307 of the Federal Act or Section 4 of the State Act.

TRANSPORTER

A person who is registered with and authorized on the federal, state, and local level to transport sewage sludge, water treatment sludge, domestic septage, chemical toilet waste, grit trap waste, or grease trap waste in accordance with current regulations.

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TREATMENT WORKS

Any device or system, whether public or private, used in collection, transportation, storage, treatment, recycling or reclamation of municipal or industrial waste of a liquid nature, including intercepting sewers, 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 clear well facilities; and any other works including sites for the treatment process or ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment.

TREATMENT WORKS PLANT

That portion of the treatment works designed to provide treatment to wastewater.

USER

Any person, excluding participants, who contributes, causes or permits the contribution or discharge of wastewater into the POTW, including persons who contribute such wastewater from mobile sources.

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WASTEWATER

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 treatment works of the Town or any participant.

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, EPA-430/9-76-017a, Volume 1, 1977, or the latest revision thereof; the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.; and the New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq., 1972.

BOD	—	Biochemical oxygen demand, five-day.
CFR	—	Code of Federal Regulations.
COD	—	Chemical oxygen demand.
EPA	—	United States Environmental Protection Agency.
L	—	Liter.
mg	—	Milligrams.
mg/l	—	Milligrams per liter.
N.J.A.C.	—	New Jersey Administrative Code.
NJDEP	—	New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
POTW	—	Publicly owned treatment works.
SIC	—	Standard industrial classification.
TSS	—	Total suspended solids.
USC	—	United States Code.