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 .. 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.

2 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 .. 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.

3 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 .. 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.

4 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 .. 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.

5 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 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.

6 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 .. 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).

7 112. 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 .. 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.

8 123. 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. 7 Purpose and scope .. 127. 7 Additional definition .. 127. 7 Demonstration of technical capacity for community water systems .. 127. 7 Demonstration of managerial and financial capacity for community water 128. 7 Demonstration of technical capacity for public nontransient noncommunity water systems .. 130. 7 Demonstration of managerial and financial capacity for nontransient noncommunity water systems .. 132. 7 Public water systems under the jurisdiction of the Department of Community Affairs or under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Utilities .. 133. Subchapter 14.

9 (RESERVED) .. 134. SUBCHAPTER 15. FEES .. 134. 7 Purpose and scope .. 134. 7 Payment of fees .. 134. 7 Calculation of permit application review fees .. 135. 7 Calculation of annual operation fees .. 136. 7 Fees for physical connection permits .. 137. iv 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. SUBCHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 7 Authority These rules are promulgated pursuant to the New Jersey safe drinking water Act, 58:12A-1 et seq., as amended; the Subsurface and Percolating Waters Act, 58 et seq.; the Realty Im- provement Sewerage and Facilities Act, 58:11-23 et seq.; the water Supply Management Act, 58:1A-1 et seq.; and 58 et seq. 7 Scope, applicability and purpose These rules implement New Jersey 's safe drinking water Program for the purpose of ensuring the provi- sion of safe drinking water to consumers, and enabling the Department to assume primary enforcement responsibility under the Federal safe drinking water Act, 93-523, 42 300f et seq.

10 The safe drinking water Program also ensures the provision of safe water of adequate pressure and volume by implementing portions of the water Supply Management Act addressing storage, emergency plans and reducing unaccounted for water ( water lost in the distribution system); and by issuing physical connection permits under the 58 et seq.; and by establishing standards for construction and procedures for certifications, under the Reality Improvement, Sewerage and Facilities Act, 58:11-23 et seq. 7 Definitions The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional definitions specifically applicable to 7:10-11, 12. and 13 are set forth at 7 , and , respectively. "Action level" means the concentration of lead or copper in water specified in the National Regulations at 40 CFR (c) which determines, in some cases, the treatment requirements set forth at 40. CFR , and that a water system is required to complete.