All residential, commercial and industrial properties
situated within the Borough of Lavallette and abutting on any street,
alley or right-of-way in which there is now located, or may in the
future be located, a public sanitary sewer are hereby required, at
the owner's expense, to connect such facilities directly to the public
sanitary sewer in accordance with the provisions of these rules and
regulations, provided that said public sewer is within 100 feet of
the property line. Connections shall be made within 90 days after
the official notice from the Borough of Lavallette. The requirement
of sewer connection includes the West Point Island and Westmont Shores
sections of Lavallette, although those areas are not currently served
by the Borough of Lavallette Sewer Utility and the required connection
is to those public sanitary sewer lines currently owned and maintained
by the Dover Municipal Utilities Authority.
No person(s) shall discharge, cause or allow to be discharged, either intentionally or through infiltration into the lateral connection line (see § 52-15), any of the following described waters and wastes into any public sewer:
A.
Individual sewage disposal systems. Discharges from
any cesspool, septic tank or other individual sanitary disposal system.
B.
Rainwater or groundwater. Discharges from roof downspouts,
foundation rains, sump pumps, areaway drains or other sources of surface
runoff or groundwater.
C.
Unpolluted water. Unpolluted waters, such as stormwater,
groundwater, roof runoff, subsurface drainage, or cooling water. Stormwater
runoff, subsurface drainage or cooling water which may be polluted
at specific times may be discharged to the sanitary sewer by individual
written permission of the Borough for each occasion, and then only
with provision for metering said flow, and specific time limits of
less than 30 days.
D.
Acidic or alkaline materials. Any waters or wastes
having a pH lower than 5.5, or higher than 9.0, or having any other
corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard to structures,
equipment or personnel of the wastewater works.
E.
Flammable or explosive materials. Any gasoline, benzene,
naphtha, fuel oil or other flammable or explosive liquid, solid or
gas.
F.
Solid or viscous materials. Solid or viscous substances
in such quantities or of such size as to be capable of causing obstruction
to the flow in sewers of other interference with the proper operations
of the wastewater facilities, such as, but not limited to: ashes,
bones, cinders, entrails, feathers, glass, grease, unground garbage,
hair or fleshings, metal, milk containers, etc., either whole or disintegrated,
mud, paper dishes, paunch manure, plastics, rags, sand, shavings,
shells, straw, tar, whole blood, wool.
G.
Toxic or poisonous materials. Any waters containing
toxic or poisonous solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity,
either singly or by interactions with other wastes, to injure or interfere
with any waste treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or
animals, create a public nuisance, or create any hazard in the receiving
waters of the wastewater treatment plant.
H.
Steam exhausts. Steam exhausts or blowoff from boilers
or from steam heating plants. Any such exhaust or blowoff shall in
every case discharge into a tank of suitable size from which a trapped
and vented overflow may lead to the sewer.
I.
Refrigerating systems. Refrigeration, cooling system
or air conditioning water.
J.
Vehicle wash water. No washings from vehicles of any
type without first passing through an appropriately designed and approved
trap or sedimentation chamber to remove excess solids, oil, grease,
etc.
K.
Radioactive wastes or isotopes. Any radioactive wastes
or isotopes of such half-life or concentration as may exceed limits
imposed upon the Borough by state or federal regulations.
A.
The following described substances, material, waters
or wastes shall be limited to concentrations or quantities which will
not harm either the sewers, wastewater treatment process or equipment,
will not have an adverse effect on the receiving stream and will not
otherwise endanger life, limb or public property or constitute a nuisance.
B.
The Borough may set limitations lower than the limitations
established in the regulations if, in its opinion, more severe limitations
are necessary to meet the above objectives. In forming its opinion
as to acceptability, the Borough will give consideration to such factors
as the quantity of subject waste relative to normal flows and velocities
in the sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, the wastewater
treatment process employed, capacity of the wastewater treatment plant,
degree of treatability of the waste in the wastewater treatment plant,
and other pertinent factors.
C.
The limitations or restrictions on materials or characteristics
of waste or wastewaters discharged to the sanitary sewer, which shall
not be violated without approval of the Borough, are as follows:
(1)
Wastewater having a temperature higher than 150°
F. (65° C.).
(2)
Wastewater containing more than 25 parts per million
of petroleum oil, nonbiodegradable cutting oil, or other product of
mineral oil origin.
(3)
Wastewater from industrial plants containing floatable
oils, fat or grease at a concentration of more than 100 parts per
million.
(4)
Any wastewater containing substances in sufficient
quantity to cause injury, damage or hazard to personnel, structures
or equipment, or interfere with the sewerage system or any portion
of the liquid or solids treatment or handling facilities or that will
pass through the treatment facilities in such condition that it will
not achieve state, federal or other existing requirements for the
effluent or for the receiving waters.
(5)
Any water or wastes which either by themselves or
by interaction with other water or wastes in the public sewer system
release obnoxious gases, form suspended solids which interfere with
the collection system, or create a condition deleterious to structures
and treatment processes.
(7)
Waters or wastes containing substances which are not
amenable to treatment, only to such degree that the wastewater treatment
plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having
jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
(8)
The admission into the public sewers of any wastes
or waters having the following characteristics shall be subject to
the review and approval of the Borough:
If any water or wastes are discharged or are
proposed to be discharged to the public sewer, which waters or wastes
contain the substances or possess the characteristics enumerated above,
and which, in the judgment of the Borough, may have a deleterious
effect upon the wastewater facilities, processes, equipment or receiving
waters, or which otherwise create a hazard to life or constitute a
public nuisance, the Borough may:
A.
Refuse to accept the waters.
B.
Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition before
discharge to the public sewer; that is, reduce the biochemical oxygen
demand to parts per million and the suspended solids to parts per
million by weight.
C.
Require control over the quantities and rates of discharge.
A.
Where pretreatment or flow equalizing facilities are
provided by the discharger or required by the Borough, they shall
be of a type and size as approved by the Borough and be maintained
continuously in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner(s)
at his/her expense.
B.
The Borough shall have access for inspections at reasonable
times by duly authorized personnel. Test reports of quantity and quality
of effluent from industrial disposal plants shall be made available
for inspection upon request or upon such schedule as may be established
by the Borough.
A.
All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics of waters and wastes to which reference is made in § 52-5, Prohibited discharges, or § 52-6, Limited discharges, shall be made in accordance with “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,” latest edition, and shall be determined at a control manhole, or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole. If a special manhole has not been installed, the control manhole shall be considered to be the downstream manhole in the street sewer nearest to the point at which the sewer lateral is connected. If, in the discretion of the Borough, a control or metering manhole is necessary for the separate measurement and examination of a given discharge, construction of such a manhole on the owner's property at the owner's expense may be required. Such manhole shall be of a design and construction approved by the Borough.
B.
Sampling methods, equipment, times, durations, and
frequencies are subject to the approval of the Borough or its representative
and shall be at the expense of the customer.
A.
Disconnection permitted. The Borough shall have the
right to disconnect any line for the following reasons:
(2)
The owner, lessee or other user of that property opposes or obstructs an authorized official or other agent from entering private property to perform tests, or make surveys or investigations under § 52-19; or
(3)
Failure of the owner, lessee or other user of that property to make any and all repairs or alterations found to be necessary by Borough pursuant to an inspection under § 52-19.
(4)
Failure to make payment.
B.
Procedure and notice. Except in the case of an emergency,
the Borough will give 60 days' advance written notice of the proposed
disconnection of service and reason therefor, so as to provide an
opportunity to the party to take corrective action and avoid the disconnection
of service.
C.
Method of disconnection. Disconnection shall be accomplished
by excavating to the lateral or service connection at a point between
the sewer and property line or easement line and capping both ends.
It may also be accomplished by inserting a suitable plug at an appropriate
location.
D.
Abandoned sewer connections. Any abandoned connection
must be capped at both ends at the expense of the property owner.
The Superintendent of Public Works or his/her designee must inspect
the work performed in connection with the capping of a sewer connection.
E.
Restoration of service. Service shall be restored
upon correction of the discharge or infiltration and payment to the
Borough for costs incurred, including, but not limited to, the cost
of repairing damage caused by the discharge, the cost of disconnection
and restoration of the service, and such penalty fees as may be levied
by the Borough.
