New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 11 - NEW JERSEY WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITY › Subchapter 4 - SCHEDULE OF RATES, CHARGES AND DEBT SERVICE ASSESSMENTS FOR THE SALE OF WATER FROM THE MANASQUAN RESERVOIR WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM › Section 7:11-4.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
				  shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Annual overdraft rate" means the rate for annual overdraft
				  service.
"Annual overdraft service" means the average daily supply of
				  water from the Manasquan Reservoir System diverted during any calendar year, to
				  the extent and from time to time available, in excess of aggregate
				  uninterruptible service, for certain seasonal, non-emergent, interim,
				  interruptible, non-guaranteed uses.
"Authority" means the New Jersey Water Supply Authority
				  established pursuant to
				  58:1B-1 et seq.
"Daily overdraft rate" means the rate for daily overdraft
				  service.
"Daily overdraft service" means the daily supply of water
				  from the Manasquan Reservoir System to the extent available, in excess of
				  aggregate uninterruptible service or diversions established in an optional
				  water use schedule for certain seasonal, non-emergent, interim, interruptible,
				  non-guaranteed uses.
"Delayed water purchase contract" means a water purchase
				  contract entered into for uninterruptible service, commencing subsequent to the
				  initial operation date of the Manasquan Reservoir System.
"Delayed water purchase surcharge" means any amount by which
				  the debt service cost component of payments to be made under any delayed water
				  purchase contract for uninterruptible service exceeds the debt service cost
				  component payable by initial water purchasers.
"Force Majeure" means acts of God, strikes, lockouts or other
				  industrial disturbances, orders of the Government of the United States or the
				  State or any agency or instrumentality thereof or of any civil or military
				  authority, acts of terrorism, insurrections, riots, epidemics, landslides,
				  lightning, earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, storms, floods, washouts, droughts,
				  explosions, breakage or accidents to machinery, pipelines, dams or canals,
				  partial or entire failure of water supply, arrests, civil disturbances, acts of
				  any public enemy, and any other causes not reasonably within the control of the
				  party claiming inability to timely comply with its obligations.
"Initial water purchase contract" means a water purchase
				  contract providing for uninterruptible service commencing on the initial
				  operation date of the Manasquan Reservoir System.
"Manasquan Reservoir Intake Facility" means the location on
				  the Manasquan River at Hospital Road in the Township of Wall, County of
				  Monmouth, where water is diverted by the Authority from the Manasquan River to
				  supply purchasers or for pumping to the Manasquan Reservoir System for
				  storage.
"Manasquan Reservoir System" means the water supply system
				  constructed by the Authority in Monmouth County, the major components of which
				  are a 770-acre, four-billion gallon reservoir facility in Howell Township, a
				  raw water intake facility and reservoir pump station located adjacent to the
				  Manasquan River in Wall Township, and an approximate 5.25-mile transmission
				  pipeline connecting the reservoir and the intake facility, together with all
				  component plants, structures and other real or personal property, and additions
				  and improvements thereto.
"Optional water use schedule" means a schedule submitted by a
				  purchaser and approved by the Authority, when the total diversions of all
				  Authority uninterruptible service contracts are equal to or less than 25
				  million gallons per day (mgd), setting forth a purchaser's anticipated
				  Manasquan Reservoir System diversions during a calendar year wherein purchaser
				  may schedule 120 percent of its total contractual monthly uninterruptible
				  service determined by the product of purchaser's contractual daily
				  uninterruptible service in mgd times the number of days in the calendar month,
				  provided no less than 80 percent of the total amount is to be diverted in any
				  month during the calendar year, the total diversions in any 24-hour period when
				  this option is exercised do not exceed 120 percent of purchaser's daily
				  uninterruptible supply, and the total amount of water diverted in any calendar
				  year does not exceed the product of the uninterruptible contract amount in mgd
				  times the number of days in the calendar year. The schedule shall contain other
				  provisions as required by the Authority to ensure the responsible and equitable
				  management of the Manasquan Reservoir System supplies.
"Point of delivery" means the location where the Manasquan
				  Reservoir System's delivery equipment interconnects with the purchaser's
				  interconnection system.
"Purchaser" means the party who contracts with the Authority
				  to purchase water from the Manasquan Reservoir System.
"Purchaser interconnection system" means the buildings,
				  structures, piping, valves, meters and other control apparatus and equipment,
				  located on properties or facilities owned by the Authority, installed by or on
				  behalf of, and owned by, the purchaser to connect purchasers' water supply
				  system with the Manasquan Reservoir System.
"Short-term service" means the supply of Manasquan Reservoir
				  System water for certain interim interruptible, non-guaranteed or short-term
				  uses, such as growing agricultural or horticultural products, meeting
				  extraordinary requirements in consumer demand for potable or industrial water
				  as a result of transfers arising from a declaration of drought by the
				  Department or Monmouth County, meeting non-seasonal extraordinary requirements
				  in consumer demand for potable or industrial water or emergent maintenance or
				  temporary failure of a critical component of a system water user's
				  infrastructure provided on a non-guaranteed or interruptible basis.
"Standby service" means the supply of Manasquan Reservoir
				  System water for certain occasional uses, such as fire protection or other
				  emergencies, natural or otherwise.
"Uninterruptible service" means the supply of Manasquan
				  Reservoir System water which the purchaser is authorized to continuously
				  withdraw without interruption, for public water supply purposes.