N.J. Admin. Code § 7:9A-7.3

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 7:9A-7.3 - Type of wastes

(a) The system(s) shall be designed to receive all sanitary sewage from the building served except in the following cases:

1. Separate systems may be designed to receive only greywater, or only blackwater, as allowed in 7:9A-7.5.

2. Laundry wastes may be discharged into a seepage pit when approved by the administrative authority as a means of reducing hydraulic loading on an existing disposal field which has been malfunctioning.

(b) Drainage from basement floors, footings or roofs shall not enter the individual subsurface sewage disposal system and shall be diverted away from the area of the disposal field.

(c) Discharge of industrial wastes onto the land, into the soil, or into the ground water is prohibited. The administrative authority shall not approve any system serving any establishment engaged in activities such as photo-processing, dry-cleaning, printing, furniture stripping and refinishing, manufacturing, automobile painting, or any other process or activity which may result in discharge of industrial wastes into the system, without prior approval from the Department. Where doubt exists as to whether or not a waste generated by a particular facility may be considered as an industrial waste, the administrative authority shall instruct the applicant to contact the Department for a determination of whether or not a NJPDES permit will be required.

(d) The administrative authority shall report to the Department any discharge of industrial wastes into an individual subsurface sewage disposal system. Use of sewage system cleaners which contain restricted chemical materials shall be considered to be a discharge of industrial wastes and is prohibited.

(e) Discharges from commercial activities where wastewater is anticipated to contain significant quantities of blood, hide, flesh, bones, paunch materials, viscera, offal and/or non-biodegradable solids of animal origin shall not be discharged to an onsite system unless specifically authorized under a NJPDES permit. Examples of such activities include, but are not limited to, slaughtering, rendering, food processing, processing deceased human bodies for burial or other disposition and surgical procedures.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:9A-7.3

Amended by R.1999 d.314, effective 9/20/1999.
See: 31 N.J.R. 1416(a), 31 N.J.R. 2741(a).
In (b), deleted a former second sentence.
Amended by R.2012 d.066, effective 4/2/2012.
See: 43 N.J.R. 478(a), 44 N.J.R. 1047(a).
Added (e).