The Long Branch Sewerage Authority.

A public or private facility used for recreational purposes which may include a club house, restrooms, cabanas, swimming pools, restaurants, beaches, or health club type facilities.

The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20 degrees C expressed in milligrams per liter.

The persons appointed by the governing body of the City of Long Branch to govern the Authority.

That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other wastewater drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five (5) feet (1.5 meters) outside the inner face of the building wall.

The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or the place of disposal.

The amount charged for an initial connection (or reconnection after termination of service) to the sewer system. The connection fee shall be calculated and updated pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:14A-8.

A dwelling or structure normally occupied by a single family.

The normal waterborne fluid wastes from residences, commercial establishments, institutions and industrial establishments, limited to the waste from kitchens, bathrooms, water closets, lavatories and laundries.

An acquired legal right for the specific use of land owned by others.

Discharge standards for compliance with National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) limits in effect for the Long Branch Sewerage Authority (LBSA) treatment plant discharge, or specific discharge standards for quality and possibly quantity of industrial effluent from individual industrial premises, as established by LBSA.

Each plumbing unit including but not limited to sink, toilet, urinal, tub or shower.

Oil, fat, or grease in a physical state such that it will separate by gravity from wastewater by treatment in an approved pre-treatment facility. The wastewater shall be considered free of floatable oil if it is properly pre-treated and the wastewater does not interfere with the collection system.

Any fixture, pipe, or other drainage device located inside of a structure, which may be interconnected to the sanitary sewer system.

The reduction in peak rates of flow, through the use of detention storage facilities or equalization tanks.

The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, and serving of foods.

See Service Lateral.

The wastewater from industrial processes, trade, or business as distinct from domestic or sanitary wastes or sewage.

Has the same definition as the term "domestic sewage".

Land and the buildings upon it.

Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, or group.

The logarithm of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration. The concentration is the weight of hydrogen ions, in grams, per liter of solution. Natural water, for example, has a pH value of 7.

The reduction of the amount of pollutants, the elimination of pollutants, or the alteration of the nature of pollutant properties in wastewater prior to or in lieu of discharging or otherwise introducing such pollutants into the system. The reduction or alteration may be obtained by physical, chemical or biological processes, process changes or by other means except by dilution. Appropriate pretreatment technology includes control equipment, such as equalization tanks or facilities, for protection against surges or slug loadings that might interfere with or otherwise be incompatible with the system or treatment processes.

The wastes from the 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 particle greater than 1/2 inch (1.27 centimeters) in any dimension.

A common sewer controlled by a governmental agency or public utility.

A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of ground, storm and surface water that are not admitted intentionally.

That portion of the public sewer which extends from the main in the street or easement to the property line. (Also called house connection).

A unit of charge established by the Authority, which is approximately equivalent to the average discharge from a single family detached home in the Long Branch Sewerage Authority service area; the unit is not precise, but is based upon approximations of quantity and variability of discharge for various classes of system users.

The spent water of a community. The preferred term is "wastewater".

A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water.

The plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by a sewerage authority for the purposes of the sewerage authority, including sewers, conduits, pipe lines, mains, pumping stations and ventilating stations, sewage treatment or disposal systems, plants and works, connections, and outfalls, compensating reservoirs, and other plants, structures, boats, conveyances, and other real and personal property, and rights therein, and appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection, treatment, purification or disposal in a sanitary manner of any sewage, liquid or solid wastes, soil or industrial wastes.

Any discharge of water or wastewater which, in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow, exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes more than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or flow during normal operation and may adversely affect the collection system and/or performance of the wastewater treatment works.

A drain or sewer for conveying water, groundwater, subsurface water, or unpolluted water from any source. (Sometimes termed "storm sewer".)

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 prescribed in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater", of the American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C., and referred to as non-filterable residue.

A private, institutional or public swimming pool used for recreational purposes, which may have a sanitary waste discharge.

Water of quality equal to or better than the effluent quality standards criteria in effect for the receiving water, or water that would not cause violation of receiving water quality standards.

Any person who discharges wastewater into the wastewater treatment works of the City.

The spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and stormwater that may be present.

The structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent. (Also called "sewerage facilities".)

An arrangement of devices and structures for treating wastewater, industrial wastes, and sludge. Sometimes used as synonymous with "waste treatment plant" or "wastewater treatment plant" or "water pollution control plant".