New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 11 - NEW JERSEY WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITY
Subchapter 5 - RULES FOR THE USE OF WATER FROM THE MANASQUAN RESERVOIR WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM
Section 7:11-5.2 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Authority" means the New Jersey Water Supply Authority established pursuant to 58:1B-1 et seq.
"Force Majeure" means acts of God, strikes, lockouts or other industrial disturbances, orders of the Government of the United States or the State or any agency or instrumentality thereof or of any civil or military authority, acts of terrorism, insurrections, riots, epidemics, landslides, lightning, earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, storms, floods, washouts, droughts, explosions, breakage or accidents to machinery, pipelines, dams or canals, partial or entire failure of water supply, arrests, civil disturbances, acts of any public enemy, and any other causes not reasonably within the control of the party claiming inability to timely comply with its obligations.
"Manasquan Reservoir System" means the water supply system constructed by the Authority in Monmouth County, the major components of which are a 770-acre, four-billion gallon reservoir facility in Howell Township, a raw water intake facility and reservoir pump station located adjacent to the Manasquan River in Wall Township, and an approximate 5.25-mile transmission pipeline connecting the reservoir and the intake facility, together with all component plants, structures and other real or personal property, and additions and improvements thereto.
"Point of delivery" means the location where the Manasquan Reservoir System's delivery equipment interconnects with the purchaser's interconnection system.
"Purchaser" means the party who contracts with the Authority to purchase water from the Manasquan Reservoir System.
"Purchaser interconnection system" means the building, structures, piping, valves, meters and other control apparatus and equipment, to the extent located on properties or facilities owned by the Authority, to be installed by or on behalf of, and owned by, the purchaser to connect purchaser's water supply system with the Manasquan Reservoir System.
"Short-term service" means the supply of Manasquan Reservoir System water for certain interim interruptible, non-guaranteed or short-term uses, such as growing agricultural or horticultural products, meeting extraordinary requirements in consumer demand for potable or industrial water as a result of transfers arising from a declaration of drought by the Department or Monmouth County, meeting non-seasonal extraordinary requirements in consumer demand for potable or industrial water or emergent maintenance or temporary failure of a critical component of a system water user's infrastructure, provided on a non-guaranteed or interruptible basis.
"Standby service" means the supply of Manasquan Reservoir System water for certain occasional uses, such as fire protection or other emergencies, natural or otherwise.
"Uninterruptible service" means the supply of Manasquan Reservoir System water which the purchaser is authorized to continuously withdraw without interruption, for public water supply purposes.
