New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 14A - NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
Subchapter 13 - EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FOR DSW PERMITS
Section 7:14A-13.16 - Point of compliance for effluent limitations
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 7:14A-13.16
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The point of compliance for each outfall shall be established as follows:
1. Permit effluent limitations, standards,
prohibitions, and monitoring requirements shall be established for each outfall or
discharge point of the permitted facility, except as provided under
7:14A-6.2(b) (BMPs
where limitations are infeasible), (a)2 below (limitations on internal waste
streams), (a)6 below (alternate monitoring point for whole effluent toxicity), and
(a)7 below (discharges into storm sewers);
2. Effluent limitations or standards for
discharges of pollutants may be imposed on internal waste streams before mixing with
other waste streams or cooling water streams when:
i. Permit effluent limitations for the final
effluent are impracticable or infeasible to calculate; or
ii. Monitoring of the final mixed effluent or
point of discharge is impracticable or infeasible;
3. Internal monitoring points shall be established
in cases where two or more different types of wastewater (for example, process
waste, domestic waste, stormwater, non-contact cooling water) mix prior to entering
the receiving water, unless such monitoring points are deemed to be unnecessary by
the Department;
4. When the point of
compliance is an internal waste stream, the monitoring required by
7:14A-14.2 shall be applied to the
internal waste stream;
5. When the point
of compliance is an internal waste stream, the fact sheet under
7:14A-15.8 shall set forth the
circumstances which make such limitations necessary, such as that the final
discharge point is inaccessible, the wastes at the point of discharge are so diluted
as to make monitoring impractical, the interferences among pollutants at the point
of discharge would make detection or analysis impracticable, or two or more waste
streams are mixed prior to discharge;
6.
For whole effluent toxicity, an alternate point of compliance may be established
prior to chlorination if the permit includes water quality based limitations for
chlorine produced oxidants and the following conditions are met:
i. The discharge is in compliance with the water
quality based effluent limitations for chlorine produced oxidants at the point of
discharge or such limitations have been determined to be unnecessary;
ii. A dechlorination treatment step is not
required to attain the water quality based limitations for chlorine produced
oxidants;
iii. Establishment of a
monitoring point after chlorination at the point of discharge is impracticable or
infeasible;
iv. Samples collected after
chlorination are not able to attain the water quality based effluent limitation for
whole effluent toxicity; and
v. The
permittee demonstrates to the Department's satisfaction that the failure to attain
the water quality based limitation in samples collected post-chlorination is due to
the presence of chlorine produced oxidants in the effluent sample;
7. For discharges into stormwater
conveyances, the point of compliance shall be established prior to the discharge
into the stormwater conveyance, unless the Department determines on a site specific
basis that an alternate point of compliance is appropriate.
8. For CPOs, an applicant or permittee may request
a CPO decay factor for use within an approved regulatory mixing zone to adjust the
measured effluent CPO concentration value in situations where the effluent has a
significant period of travel time (more then 15 minutes during critical design
conditions) between the location where the effluent CPO sample is taken and the
point of discharge into the receiving waterbody.
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