(d) The
following information shall be submitted in the application for the Discharge
to Ground Water permit pursuant to (a) above:
1. Project related information as follows:
i. A description of the facility;
ii. The nature of the establishment;
and
iii. The total floor area of
all structures on site and their maximum occupancy where necessary to determine
the daily volume of discharge;
2. Pollutant characteristics as follows:
i. The origin and daily volume of
discharge;
ii. The degree of
pretreatment of the discharge;
iii.
Characteristics of the quality of the discharge.
(1) Unless otherwise approved by the
Department, all analyses or estimates shall include the following parameters at
a minimum:
(A) Ammonia nitrogen
(NH[3]-N);
(B) Nitrate nitrogen
(NO[3]-N);
(C) Total Kjeldahl
nitrogen (TKN);
(D) Biochemical
oxygen demand (BOD);
(E) Chemical
oxygen demand (COD);
(F) Total
dissolved solids (TDS);
(G)
Suspended solids (SS);
(M) Fecal coliform bacteria;
(P) Base/neutral compounds;
(Q) Acid extractable compounds;
(T) Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS).
(i) Perfluorononanoic acid
(PFNA);
(ii) Perfluorooctanoic acid
(PFOA); and
(iii)
Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS).
(2) Dependent on the nature of the facility
as described in accordance with (d)1 above, base/neutral compounds, acid
extractable compounds, volatile organics, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS), and pesticides shall be analyzed for as required pursuant to N.J.A.C.
7:14A-4Appendix A; and
iv. The compatibility of the wastewater with
onsite soil conditions and vegetation (if any) shall be substantiated by the
applicant;
3. Site
related information as follows:
i. The present
tax lot and block, municipality and county in which the facility is located or
is proposed to be located;
ii. A
general plan to scale showing at a minimum the location of the discharge to
ground water with respect to the following within one half mile of the
boundaries of discharge to ground water site:
(3) Existing and proposed land use of
discharge to ground water site and surrounding areas;
(4) Adjacent property ownership and all
dwellings and buildings of human use or occupancy;
(5) Surface waters, including, but not
limited to, perennial and intermittent streams, lakes, ponds and reservoirs;
and
(6) Mines (surface and
subsurface) and quarries;
iii. Topographic (two foot contour
intervals), geologic and soils (USDA) maps of the discharge to ground water
site and surrounding area sufficient to define conditions and evaluate probable
impacts of the discharge to ground water.
iv. A plot plan to scale showing:
(1) The discharge to ground water
area;
(4) Pre-treatment facilities;
(6) All conveyance and distribution
piping;
(7) Any sinkholes, gullies
or soil erosional features (natural or man-made) within the discharge to ground
water site which divert drainage from or through the facility
property;
(8) Existing monitor and
piezometer wells;
(9) Water supply
wells including the depth of the screened interval and yield;
(10) A wellhead protection area certified by
the Department;
(11) Soil borings,
test pits and hydraulic conductivity tests;
(12) All wetlands and buffer zones;
and
(13) All areas subject to
flooding within the five-, 10- and 25-year storm events; and
v. A well inventory of the area
within one half mile of the boundaries of the discharge to ground water
indicating the depth of all existing domestic, municipal and industrial
supplies. Yields of all wells exceeding 100,000 gallons per day or 70 gallons
per minute shall be indicated on a location map or key map;
4. Soils and geologic evaluation
as follows:
i. A sufficient number of borings
shall be made of the disposal site to characterize and verify the subsurface
conditions beneath the site with respect to the types of material, uniformity,
depth to bedrock, and ground water elevations. When, in the judgment of the
Department, the number of borings is not sufficient to adequately describe the
geologic formations and ground water flow patterns below the disposal site, in
regard to potential contaminant migration paths, supplemental borings or
geophysical methods will be required;
ii. Data obtained from borings shall be
collected by standard undisturbed soil sampling techniques for engineering
properties, and split spoon sampling or standard penetration tests for
classification. Samples shall be collected and classified continuously for the
first 20 feet of boring and at five foot intervals thereafter;
iii. All borings shall extend to a minimum
depth of 20 feet unless specified by the Department. The Department shall
require deeper borings in areas in which 20 feet is not sufficient to describe
the geologic formations and ground water flow patterns in regard to the
potential contaminant migration paths;
iv. Logs shall be submitted for each boring,
regarding rock and soil conditions encountered. Each log shall include a soil
or rock description in accordance with recognized standard methods (USDA,
Unified or Burmeister Soil Classification System; Rock Quality Description
System), depth of individual soil or rock strata, water levels encountered,
blow counts, depth of soil tests and dates. All depths described within the
boring logs shall be correlated to New Jersey Geodetic Control Survey
Datum;
v. A sufficient number of
test pits necessary to characterize all soil series within the discharge to
ground water site shall be excavated. Each test pit log shall describe each
recognizable soil horizon or substratum for depth and thickness, soil color
using the Munsell System of Classification (including abundance, size and
contrast of mottling where present), soil texture using the USDA Soil Textural
Classification System, an estimation of the volume of coarse fragment (where
present), soil structural class and soil consistency;
vi. A determination of depths to seasonal
high water table specifying the methodology used to make the determination;
and
vii. A description of the
physiographic region and geologic formation(s) into which pollutants are
discharged. Site specific geology including, but not limited to, bedrock
outcrop, strike and dip of sedimentary formations and foliation trend and dip
angles of igneous and metamorphic rocks, faults, joint and fracture trends in
bedrock including dip angles, trend direction of solution channels in karst
topography, saprolite development, clay lenses or fragipans, perched water
tables or any other geologic features which may impede the treatment and/or
disposal of pollutants shall be described;
5. Hydrogeologic evaluation as follows:
i. A determination of ambient or background
ground water quality shall be required for the parameters listed in (d)2iii(1)
above. The well used to characterize background water quality shall be located
where unaffected, or if not possible where least impacted, by the discharge.
Data shall be provided to show that background water quality wells are located
in the same hydrologic units as the wells subsequently used to monitor the
impact of the discharge;
ii. A
representative determination of background ground water quality shall be made
for all parameters specified in (d)2iii(1) above. A minimum of five samples
shall be collected over a time period which is representative of spatial or
seasonal variations in quality. The arithmetic mean and variance shall be
determined for each respective parameter concentration by pooling the
measurements in samples;
iii.
Ground water samples shall be collected within 18 months before the date of
receipt by the Department of the application for a permit under this section
from well(s) located hydraulically upgradient from the discharge to ground
water;
iv. A sufficient number of
tests shall be performed in order to characterize onsite hydrogeologic
characteristics, including, but not limited to, horizontal hydraulic
conductivity, ground water flow velocity and hydraulic gradient. Where, in the
judgment of the Department, the information submitted is insufficient to
adequately evaluate the hydrogeologic characteristics of the site, supplemental
tests or methods may be required; and
v. Ground water contour maps shall be
submitted depicting both initial piezometric conditions and ground water flow
conditions resulting from the growth and/or decay of ground water mound(s)
induced by the discharge to ground water. For facilities which have surface
impoundments, the ground water contour map for the facility would not need to
depict ground water recharge characteristics associated with surface
impoundments. Ground water elevations shall be based upon synoptic well data
collected within 18 months of the date of receipt by the Department of an
application for a permit under this section; and
6. Engineering information as follows:
i. Engineering plans and specifications for
the entire project, describing the proposed treatment process(es) and
facilities, storage facilities (if necessary), conveyance systems, disposal
facilities, equipment specifications, capacities and all related engineering
and operational data;
ii.
Description of the method by which compliance with Ground Water Quality
Standards are to be achieved; and
iii. A calculation of the surface run-off
across the discharge to ground water site prepared using a 25-year storm, with
estimates of the effect of such run-off on wastewater treatment, storage,
disposal, and on erosion, flooding and related details.