Table of Contents - New Jersey

1 NOTE: THIS IS A COURTESY COPY OF THIS RULE. ALL OF THE DEPARTMENT'S RULES. ARE COMPILED IN TITLE 7 OF THE NEW Jersey ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 7:10. Safe Drinking Water Act Rules Statutory authority: 13:1D-1 et seq., 58 et seq., 58:11-23 et seq., and 58:12A-1 et seq. Date last amended: September 4, 2018. For regulatory history and effective dates, see the New Jersey Administrative Code Table of Contents SUBCHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS .. 1. 7 Authority .. 1. 7 Scope, applicability and purpose .. 1. 7 Definitions .. 1. 7 Procedures for inspections and sanitary surveys of water systems .. 7. 7 7. SUBCHAPTER 2. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS .. 7. 7 Department inventory of public water systems .. 7. 7 Department recordkeeping and reporting.

2 8. 7 Plan for the provision of potable water in emergencies .. 8. 7 Reporting of changes to plants and emergencies .. 8. 7 Ban on further connections to over-extended or otherwise inadequate systems .. 8. 7 Program information .. 8. 7 Managerial and technical competence of water 9. SUBCHAPTER 3. CIVIL ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES AND REQUESTS FOR. ADJUDICATORY HEARINGS .. 9. 7 Scope .. 9. 7 Authority .. 10. 7 Procedures for issuing an administrative order pursuant to the State 10. 7 Procedures for assessment, settlement and payment of civil administrative penalties for 10. 7 Procedures to request an adjudicatory hearing to contest an administrative order and/or a notice of civil administrative penalty assessment; procedures for conducting adjudicatory hearings.

3 11. 7 Civil administrative penalties for violation of the State 12. 7 Civil administrative penalty for failure to pay a fee .. 15. 7 Civil penalties for violations of the State Act .. 15. 7 Civil actions for violations of the State Act .. 16. 7 Economic benefit .. 16. SUBCHAPTER 4. DISINFECTION .. 16. 7 Disinfection .. 16. SUBCHAPTER 5. STATE PRIMARY DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS .. 17. 7 Applicability of National Regulations .. 17. 7 Discretionary changes to National Regulations .. 17. 7 Analytical requirements .. 22. i NOTE: THIS IS A COURTESY COPY OF THIS RULE. ALL OF THE DEPARTMENT'S RULES. ARE COMPILED IN TITLE 7 OF THE NEW Jersey ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 7 Reporting requirements .. 23. 7 Public notification.

4 23. 7 Recordkeeping .. 24. 7 Remediation requirements and procedures .. 24. 7 State-specific requirements for total coliform .. 24. Subchapter 6. (RESERVED).. 29. SUBCHAPTER 7. STATE SECONDARY DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS .. 29. 7 Authority, purpose and scope .. 29. 7 Recommended upper limits and optimum ranges for physical, chemical and biological characteristics in drinking water .. 29. 7 Monitoring .. 30. 7 Public notification .. 31. SUBCHAPTER 8. DRINKING WATER ADDITIVES .. 31. 7 Purpose and scope .. 31. 7 Drinking water additives .. 32. SUBCHAPTER 9. SURFACE WATER TREATMENT REQUIREMENTS .. 33. 7 Purpose and scope .. 33. 7 Discretionary changes to national surface water treatment requirements.

5 33. 7 Determination of ground water sources to be evaluated for direct influence of surface water .. 33. 7 Monitoring requirements and criteria for determination for ground water sources under the direct influence of surface water .. 34. 7 Surface water treatment plant reporting requirements .. 36. 7 Additional requirements .. 37. SUBCHAPTER 10. PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS AND CROSS CONNECTION CONTROL BY. CONTAINMENT .. 38. 7 Purpose and scope .. 38. 7 General provisions and 38. 7 Approved physical connection installation requirements .. 39. 7 Installation .. 41. 7 Physical connection permit application and renewal procedures .. 42. 7 Inspection and testing requirements and procedures for physical connection installations.

6 45. 7 Physical connection permit modifications; termination of physical connection permits on removal of physical connection installations .. 50. 7 Requirements for approval as a certifying agency .. 51. 7 Cross-connection control by containment .. 53. 7 Requests for adjudicatory hearings .. 53. APPENDIX A .. 54. APPENDIX B .. 56. SUBCHAPTER 11. STANDARDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC COMMUNITY. WATER SYSTEMS .. 57. 7 Purpose and scope .. 57. 7 57. 7 Deviations from construction standards .. 57. 7 Additional definitions and general 57. 7 Permit requirement; application Contents .. 59. ii NOTE: THIS IS A COURTESY COPY OF THIS RULE. ALL OF THE DEPARTMENT'S RULES. ARE COMPILED IN TITLE 7 OF THE NEW Jersey ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.

7 7 General requirements for source, treatment, storage and distribution components .. 68. 7 Standards for the construction and development of ground water sources .. 71. 7 Standards for the construction and development of surface water sources and ground water sources under the direct influence of surface water .. 76. 7 Standards for the construction of pumping stations .. 78. 7 Permit requirements and standards for the construction of distribution systems; master permits .. 79. 7 Distribution storage requirements .. 82. 7 Chemical handling and chemical feed systems .. 85. 7 Pretreatment requirements .. 86. 7 Filtration .. 89. 7 Miscellaneous treatment processes .. 91. 7 Disinfection of public community water system water supplies.

8 97. 7 Requests for adjudicatory hearings .. 100. SUBCHAPTER 12. STANDARDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC. NONCOMMUNITY WATER SYSTEMS AND NONPUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS .. 101. 7 Authority and 101. 7 101. 7 Additional definitions .. 101. 7 General provisions and 106. 7 Deviations from construction standards .. 108. 7 Water volume requirements .. 108. 7 Sources of water .. 110. 7 Frost 110. 7 Physical connection .. 110. 7 Priming systems .. 110. 7 Disinfection of water system 110. 7 Minimum distance requirements .. 111. 7 (Reserved) .. 112. 7 (Reserved) .. 112. 7 (Reserved) .. 112. 7 (Reserved) .. 112. 7 (Reserved) .. 112. 7 (Reserved) .. 112. 7 (Reserved) .. 112. 7 (Reserved) .. 112. 7 (Reserved) .. 112.

9 7 Test for yield and submission of well report .. 112. 7 Springs .. 112. 7 Cisterns and dug wells .. 113. 7 Surface water sources .. 113. 7 (Reserved) .. 113. 7 (Reserved) .. 113. 7 (Reserved) .. 113. 7 (Reserved) .. 113. 7 Water quality analysis and treatment .. 113. iii NOTE: THIS IS A COURTESY COPY OF THIS RULE. ALL OF THE DEPARTMENT'S RULES. ARE COMPILED IN TITLE 7 OF THE NEW Jersey ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. 7 Chemical handling and chemical feed systems .. 115. 7 Disinfection of public noncommunity and nonpublic water systems .. 116. 7 Chemical and physical treatment .. 118. 7 General requirements for storage of finished water .. 120. 7 Required storage capacity .. 120. 7 General requirements for distribution systems.

10 121. 7 Capacity and size of service 121. 7 Water crossings .. 122. 7 General requirements for the certification of new, altered or replacement nonpublic or public noncommunity water systems .. 122. 7 Additional requirements for the certification of single dwelling nonpublic water systems and other nonpublic water systems .. 123. 7 Additional requirements for the certification of public noncommunity water systems .. 124. 7 Requirements for certification by the Department of water supply systems for 50 or more realty improvements .. 125. 7 Requests for adjudicatory hearings .. 126. SUBCHAPTER 13. STANDARDS FOR TECHNICAL, MANAGERIAL, AND FINANCIAL. CAPCITY OF PUBLIC COMMUNITY AND NONCOMMUNITY WATER 127.