Unless the context otherwise requires, the meaning
of the terms used herein shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. expressed in milligrams per liter.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system
which receives the discharge from soil, waste or other drainage pipes
inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer
beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
The extension of the building drain to the public sewer or
other place of disposal. A building sewer shall begin two feet inside
the curbline or edge of pavement.
An acquired legal right for the specified use of land owned
by others.
Oil, fat or grease in a physical state such that it will
separate by gravity by treatment in an approved pretreatment facility.
Wastewater shall be considered free of floatable fat if it is properly
pretreated and the wastewater does not interfere with the wastewater
system.
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and serving of food.
The wastewater from industrial processes, trade or businesses
distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes.
The entry of foreign substances into the sewer system through
damaged or dilapidated lateral connection lines.
A privately owned line connecting a home or property structure
to the municipal sewer main beneath the street.
Is permissive.
Each nonresidential user having an estimated or actual water
consumption for the year prior to the billing period of 72,000 gallons
or less. If the estimated or actual usage is in excess of 72,000 gallons
per year, the number of units shall be determined by dividing the
actual or estimated usage by 72,000 gallons, and the number of units
shall be the quotient thereof rounded to the next higher whole number.
An individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration.
The concentration is the weight of the hydrogen ions in grams per
liter of solution. Neutral water, for example, has a pH value of seven
and the hydrogen ion concentration of 10-7.
The wastes from preparation, cooking and dispensing of food
that have been shredded to such a degree that all particles will be
carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing in public
sewers; with no particles greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
The common sewer controlled by the Borough of Lavallette.
The public sewer shall include the line extending from the sewer main
to a point two feet inside the curbline or edge of pavement.
Each single-family residential dwelling or each individual
residential dwelling unit in a multiple-family structure and each
residential dwelling unit serviced by a common meter.
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried
waste from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and
institutions.
The spent water of a community. The preferred term is “wastewater.”
A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater.
Is mandatory.
Any discharge of water or wastewater which in concentrations
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 of flows during normal operation and
shall adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of
the wastewater treatment works.
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 described in “Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater” and referred
to as a “nonfilterable residue.”
Water of 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.
Spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source,
it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried waste from
residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants and institutions.
The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect,
carry away and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of
the effluent; including but not limited to the lateral connection
line running from a residence to the curb stop valve into the sewer
main running along the street.
An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater,
industrial wastes and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with “waste
treatment plant” or “water pollution control plant.”
The system for wastewater disposal owned and
operated by the Borough of Lavallette shall be operated as a municipal
sewer utility for all of the purposes of the Local Bond Law, Local
Budget Law, Local Fiscal Affairs Law and all other applicable statutes
of the State of New Jersey.
The Borough Council of Lavallette is empowered
to establish rates, charges, rentals, fees, rules and regulations
for the operation of the municipal sewer utility as may be deemed
necessary and shall have complete control and jurisdiction over the
municipal sewer utility recognized by this chapter.
