New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 11 - NEW JERSEY WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITY
Subchapter 3 - RULES FOR THE USE OF WATER FROM THE DELAWARE AND RARITAN BASIN SYSTEM
Section 7:11-3.5 - Payments

(a) The user shall pay the New Jersey Water Supply Authority for all raw water withdrawn from the Raritan Basin System in accordance with the rates and provisions set forth in the Rate Schedule in effect on the date of execution of the water use agreement and as modified from time to time in accordance with the provisions of 7:11-2.10.

(b) The user shall pay to the New Jersey Water Supply Authority a total annual demand charge computed by multiplying the quantity specified in the water use agreement for 24-hour withdrawal, known as the daily allotment, by 365.

(c) A user shall pay the New Jersey Water Supply Authority only for the cost of operation and maintenance on an annual demand charge basis provided that the water withdrawn from the Raritan Basin System is returned thereto substantially undiminished in quantity and quality at a point considered by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority to be in the near vicinity of the point of withdrawal.

(d) Until the total water supply capacity of the Raritan Basin System is allocated by contract, the New Jersey Water Supply Authority may allow interim, short-term use of the uncommitted capacity of the System on a non guaranteed, annual interruptible basis to support the growing of agricultural and horticultural products provided that short-term users shall pay the cost of operation and maintenance, the capital fund component, debt service assessments, and source water protection fund component established in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:11-2 for the actual amount of water diverted by the short-term user during any month.

(e) Payments shall be made monthly or quarterly as billed, at such place as the New Jersey Water Supply Authority may designate.