An ordinance establishing a code to regulate
and control the location, construction, use, maintenance and method
of emptying or cleaning individual sewage disposal systems, or other
places used for the reception or storage of human excrement, the issuance
of permits and providing penalties for the violation thereof is hereby
adopted. A copy of the code is annexed hereto and made a part hereof
without the inclusion of the text herein.
The code established and adopted by this chapter
is described and commonly known as the "Individual Sewage System Code
of New Jersey (1963)."
Three copies of said Individual Sewage Disposal
System Code of New Jersey (1963) have been placed on file in the office
of the Health Officer of the Board of Health of the Town of Boonton
upon the introduction of this chapter and will remain on file in said
office for the use and examination by the public.
Realty improvements within the Town generally
require the installation of sewage disposal systems or water supply
systems under the provisions of the Realty Improvement Sewerage and
Facilities Act (1954), P.L. 1954, Chapter 199, N.J.S.A. 58:11-23 et
seq.
A.
No building permit for any proposed new residence
or other building requiring the installation of a sewage disposal
system may be issued in the Town until the Board of Health shall have
certified that the proposed sewerage facilities will comply with the
requirements of the Act and any regulations promulgated thereunder.
B.
Every application for certification by the Board of
Health shall be in writing and shall include appropriate engineering
information and date and must be supported by a signed statement by
a duly qualified person that the proposed sewerage facilities are
in compliance with the Act and regulations thereunder.
C.
Any sewerage facilities installed in violation of
the provisions of the Act is declared to be a nuisance subject to
abatement by court order, and any person or corporation installing
a sewage disposal system without complying with the Act, regulations
thereunder or the terms and conditions of any application as approved
by the Board of Health shall be subject to the penalty for each offense,
and such person may be required to cease all work upon such system
forthwith.
D.
Repairs to existing structures. No existing individual
sewage disposal system or other system or facility intended to receive
human excrement or other putrescible wastes shall be repaired until
a permit has been issued therefor upon application to the Board of
Health.
E.
All individual disposal permits shall expire one year
after date of issue.
F.
If any part of an individual disposal is located under
a driveway or other area required to support unusual weight, a professional
engineer of the State of New Jersey shall list the type of usage and
certify to the system's safety.
G.
Percolation tests; soil logs; metal tanks; abandoned
tanks and pits; stoppage of work.
(1)
Percolation tests shall be witnessed by a member of
the professional staff of the Boonton Board of Health.
(2)
Percolation tests must be conducted at the depth that
a system will function.
(3)
A soil log must be 10 feet deep or to the depth of
the system, whichever is greater.
(4)
All systems shall be designed in accordance with state
standards.
(5)
Renovations to all existing systems shall be designed
to provide for no less than 125 square feet per dwelling unit, or
as stated in the code adopted by this chapter.
(6)
All systems, new or repaired, shall be inspected on
site after evacuation of system and prior to installation; after insertion
of filter material, but prior to backfilling; and after backfilling
to check elevations prior to covering.
(7)
Metal tanks shall not be installed unless approval
has been given by the Board or its agents.
(8)
All abandoned septic tanks and seepage pits shall
be filled with earth or rock within 30 days after abandonment.
(9)
Stoppage of work. The Board of Health may order all
further work in and about any individual sewage disposal system or
water supply system, which is being erected or installed in violation
of the Realty Improvement Sewerage and Facilities Act (1954) or any
provision of this chapter, to be stopped forthwith, except such work
as shall be necessary to remedy such violation of any of the provisions
of the regulations, and after issuance of any such order and the service
of a copy thereof upon any person connected with or working in and
about the erection or installation of any such disposal system or
water supply system, or any part thereof, no further work shall be
done thereon except as aforesaid.
H.
Scavengers. Any person, firm, corporation or company
engaged in the operation of the business of collecting and disposing
of liquid sewage, hereinafter referred to as "scavengers" must present
to the Board of Health by March 1 of each and every year a list of
all equipment and vehicles used in connection with the operation of
the business. Following the submission of such a list, the Board,
through its authorized representative, shall make an inspection of
said equipment and vehicles, such inspection to be completed within
30 days after submission of the list.
