New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 15 - WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLANNING › Subchapter 5 - 303(D) WATER QUALITY LIMITED WATERS LISTS AND TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOADS › Section 7:15-5.25 - Evaluation criteria for wastewater management plans and amendments

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The Department
				will only adopt a wastewater management plan, wastewater management plan update
				or wastewater management plan amendment if the applicant demonstrates
				compliance with the requirements in this section for existing and future
				wastewater treatment needs, water supply demands, and nonpoint sources of
				pollution. The Department will only process a revision under
				7:15-3.5(b)4  if
				the Department determines, based on its assessment of the revision proposal,
				that it complies with the requirements in this section. The standards set forth
				in this section represent the minimum standards for approval of a wastewater
				management plan, wastewater management plan update or wastewater management
				plan amendment. WMP planning agencies or municipalities may incorporate more
				protective standards.
(b) Except as
				provided for a site specific amendment in (h) below, an application for
				approval of a wastewater management plan or wastewater management plan update
				shall include environmental analyses or assessments and meet the standards set
				forth in (c) through (g) below.
(c)
				An environmental build-out analysis shall be developed for each existing and
				proposed wastewater service area, except for those portions of sewer service
				areas that are located in urbanized municipalities. The build-out analysis
				shall be developed on a HUC 11 basis. Each HUC 11 shall be further
				disaggregated by municipality. Development shall also be broken down between
				areas within and outside of public water supply service areas. These
				delineations and associated analyses shall be based on the mapping and
				narrative requirements in
				7:15-5.16 through 5.18 and 5.20 and
				shall be prepared in accordance with the following:
1. In areas not currently connected to sewers
				that are in an existing or proposed sewer service area, identify the
				development that is currently existing and intended to be connected to sewers,
				as well as the future development that can occur under existing zoning in
				undeveloped areas and is expected to connect to sewers, after removing wetlands
				and riparian zones. At the option of each municipality, other areas may be
				removed if they are not expected to connect to sewers, including, but not
				limited to, permanently preserved agricultural lands or public open space.
				Identify the development to be connected to sewers by acres and type, including
				number of residential units and measures of nonresidential development in terms
				used to calculate wastewater flow at
				7:14A-23.3;
2. For undeveloped and underdeveloped areas
				outside of sewer service areas, identify the number of dwelling units that can
				occur consistent with the analysis at (e) below, without removing wetlands and
				riparian zones; and
3. The
				information required in (c)1 and 2 above must be presented in tables and maps
				sufficient to demonstrate compliance with analyses of wastewater and water
				supply in (d) through (f) below.