Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Wastewater
management plans should be concise, using the minimum feasible narrative and
mapping. All pages, tables, and figures in wastewater management plans shall be
legible and numbered. The text of wastewater management plans, wastewater management
plan updates, WQM plan amendments and revisions shall be submitted in hard copy and
in an electronic format that is compatible with the Department's software
capabilities. Information regarding the Department's software capabilities may be
obtained by contacting the Department at New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection, Division of Watershed Management, P.O. Box 418, Trenton, New Jersey
08625, (609) 984-6888. The applicant shall submit a minimum of five hard copies to
the Department and, if the Department determines that more are needed based on the
particulars of the proposal, the Department will notify the applicant.
(b) All maps in wastewater management plans,
wastewater management plan updates, and WQM plan amendments and revisions shall be
prepared and submitted in hard copy in a format which is consistent with the
Department's mapping standards at N.J.A.C. 7:1D Appendix A and shall be in New
Jersey State Plane Feet using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), use 1:24,000
scale United States Geological Survey quadrangle maps as a base and shall meet
"United States National Map Accuracy Standards," incorporated herein by reference as
amended or updated, for that scale. The United States National Map Accuracy
Standards were issued by the U.S. Bureau of the Budget, Revised June 1, 1947, and
can be obtained at http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/nmas.html.
Other maps at other scales may be provided as supplements. Mapping information for
wastewater management plans shall also be submitted in digital form compatible with
mapping standards at N.J.A.C. 7:1D Appendix A. The digital maps shall be accurate,
at a minimum, to a scale of 1:12,000. The Department recommends that the creation of
new digital mapping information for wastewater management plans be prepared in a
format that conforms to the "New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Geographic Information System Mapping and Digital Data Standards" guidance document,
as amended or updated. Guidance related to the mapping and digital data standards is
available at the Department's website at http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis. Each
wastewater management plan shall include the following main maps in hard copy and in
digital form, except digital maps in (b)3 below already generated by the Department
in GIS do not have to submitted to the Department:
1. A map depicting the existing boundaries of the
wastewater management plan area and the existing treatment works and wastewater
service areas identified under
7:15-5.16(a)3 through
8;
2. A map depicting future DTW and
wastewater service areas identified at the end of the 20-year period for urbanized
municipalities, or at build-out for all other municipalities, under
7:15-5.18(c)1 through
5. Wherever feasible, the boundaries of future wastewater service areas shall
coincide with recognizable geographic, political or environmental
features depicted in Department GIS coverages used for the wastewater management
plan. The existing boundaries of the wastewater management plan area shall also be
depicted on any map under this paragraph; and
3. One or more maps depicting the existing
boundaries of the wastewater management plan area, and the features identified under
7:15-5.17. This map shall also state
that development in areas mapped as wetlands, flood prone areas, suitable habitat
for endangered and threatened species as identified on the Department's Landscape
Maps of Habitat for Endangered, Threatened and Other Priority Wildlife as Rank 3, 4
and 5, Natural Heritage Priority Sites, riparian zones, steep slopes, or designated
river areas may be subject to special regulation under Federal or State statutes or
rules, and that interested persons should check with the Department for the latest
information. Depiction of environmental features shall be for general information
purposes only, and shall not be construed to define the legal geographic
jurisdiction of such statutes or rules.
(c) Any other mapping required by
7:15-5.16 through 5.18, 5.24 and 5.25
may be included on one or more of the main maps listed in (b) above if the
information is legible, or on other 1:24,000 scale maps.
