N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-13.16 - Point of compliance for effluent limitations
(a) The point of
compliance for each outfall shall be established as follows:
1. Permit effluent limitations, standards,
prohibitions, and monitoring requirements shall be established for each outfall
or discharge point of the permitted facility, except as provided under
7:14A-6.2(b)
(BMPs where limitations are infeasible), (a)2 below (limitations on internal
waste streams), (a)6 below (alternate monitoring point for whole effluent
toxicity), and (a)7 below (discharges into storm sewers);
2. Effluent limitations or standards for
discharges of pollutants may be imposed on internal waste streams before mixing
with other waste streams or cooling water streams when:
i. Permit effluent limitations for the final
effluent are impracticable or infeasible to calculate; or
ii. Monitoring of the final mixed effluent or
point of discharge is impracticable or infeasible;
3. Internal monitoring points shall be
established in cases where two or more different types of wastewater (for
example, process waste, domestic waste, stormwater, non-contact cooling water)
mix prior to entering the receiving water, unless such monitoring points are
deemed to be unnecessary by the Department;
4. When the point of compliance is an
internal waste stream, the monitoring required by
7:14A-14.2 shall be applied to the
internal waste stream;
5. When the
point of compliance is an internal waste stream, the fact sheet under
7:14A-15.8 shall set forth the
circumstances which make such limitations necessary, such as that the final
discharge point is inaccessible, the wastes at the point of discharge are so
diluted as to make monitoring impractical, the interferences among pollutants
at the point of discharge would make detection or analysis impracticable, or
two or more waste streams are mixed prior to discharge;
6. For whole effluent toxicity, an alternate
point of compliance may be established prior to chlorination if the permit
includes water quality based limitations for chlorine produced oxidants and the
following conditions are met:
i. The
discharge is in compliance with the water quality based effluent limitations
for chlorine produced oxidants at the point of discharge or such limitations
have been determined to be unnecessary;
ii. A dechlorination treatment step is not
required to attain the water quality based limitations for chlorine produced
oxidants;
iii. Establishment of a
monitoring point after chlorination at the point of discharge is impracticable
or infeasible;
iv. Samples
collected after chlorination are not able to attain the water quality based
effluent limitation for whole effluent toxicity; and
v. The permittee demonstrates to the
Department's satisfaction that the failure to attain the water quality based
limitation in samples collected post-chlorination is due to the presence of
chlorine produced oxidants in the effluent sample;
7. For discharges into stormwater
conveyances, the point of compliance shall be established prior to the
discharge into the stormwater conveyance, unless the Department determines on a
site specific basis that an alternate point of compliance is
appropriate.
8. For CPOs, an
applicant or permittee may request a CPO decay factor for use within an
approved regulatory mixing zone to adjust the measured effluent CPO
concentration value in situations where the effluent has a significant period
of travel time (more then 15 minutes during critical design conditions) between
the location where the effluent CPO sample is taken and the point of discharge
into the receiving waterbody.
Notes
See: 38 N.J.R. 1445(a).
Amended by R.2009 d.7, effective
See: 40 N.J.R. 1478(a), 41 N.J.R. 142(a).
Rewrote (a)6; recodified former (a)6ii(1) through (a)6ii(5) as (a)6i through (a)6v; and added (a)8.
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