New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 19 - WATER SUPPLY ALLOCATION PERMITS
Subchapter 4 - PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING, ASSESSING AND COLLECTING PAYMENTS FOR EXCESS WATER DIVERSION
Section 7:19-4.8 - Free allowance determination

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 7:19-4.8

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) The Department shall determine the free allowance each purveyor is entitled to in accordance with the following:

1. Each purveyor shall be granted an allowance of 100 gallons daily for each inhabitant of the municipality or municipalities supplied, as shown by the census of 1905; or

2. The amount, in excess of the amount specified in 1. above, that the purveyor was legally diverting on June 17, 1907.

(b) Where any purveyor diverts from more than one source at the same time, for the purpose of computing the excess diversion fee, the free allowance shall be allocated proportionately to each source.

(c) The free allowance for each purveyor listed in (d) below shall be changed in the event the sources of the supply for a community are changed.

(d) The Department has determined the following free allowances, in accordance with (a) above, for the following purveyors:

Purveyor/DivisionPoints of DiversionFree Allowances
(million
gallons) n3
Atlantic City Water Dept.Absecon Creek1,649.070
Bloomsbury Water Dept.Musconetcong River29.200
Branchville WaterDept. Dry Brook21.571
Brick Township M.U.A.Metedeconk River77.453
Burlington City Water Co.Delaware River293.387
Butler Water Co.Apshawa Brook139.175
Elizabethtown Water Co.Millstone River and Raritan
River1,479.137
City of Elizabeth2,208.579 n1
Franklin Water Dept.Franklin Pond58.400 n1
Hackensack Water Co.Hackensack River9,153.47 n2
Saddle River
Hirschfield Brook
Sparkill Brook
Hackettstown M.U.A.Mine Brook94.681
Haledon Water Dept.Oldam Brook108.551
Jersey City Water Dept.Rockaway River16,542.946
Lambertville Water Co.Tributary of Delaware River183.084
Matchaponix Water Supply Co.Matchaponix Brook0
Middlesex Water Co.Robinson's Branch639.006
Rahway River
Raritan River
New Jersey-American Water
CompanyBuckhorn Creek Tributary68.219
Canoe Brook/Passaic River782.889
Delaware River0
Madisonville64.423
India Brook62.926
Swimming River1,090.946
Jumping River16.813
Shark River140.615
Southeast MorrisHarmony Creek627.253
County M.U.A.
Newark Water DepartmentPequannock River
Newark and Belleville13,228.208n1
Bloomfield425.882
North Jersey District
Water Supply Comm.
Including
Montclair, Kearny,Wanaque River
Glen Ridge, BayonneRamapo River
and East NewarkTwo Bridges2,825.940
City of Newark10,340.048
City of New BrunswickLawrence Brook957.445
New Brunswick and Milltown
Newton Water Co.
Tributary of
Paulinskull River161.403
Passaic Valley WaterPassaic River at Little Falls,6,542.7351
Commissionor Passaic River at Two Bridges
Rahway Water Dept.Rahway River555.397
Salem Water Dept.Alloway Creek235.170
Sayreville BoroughSouth River174.434
Sussex Water Dept.Lake Rutherford48.107
City of TrentonDelaware River4,923.850
United States Army, Fort DixRancocas Creek0
Naval Air Propulsion CenterDelaware River0
n1 Subject to allocation.
n2 May include credits for releases from DeForest Reservoir.
n3 For leap year, multiply these quantities by the fraction 366/365.

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