New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 11 - NEW JERSEY WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITY › Subchapter 5 - RULES FOR THE USE OF WATER FROM THE MANASQUAN RESERVOIR WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM › Section 7:11-5.2 - 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:
"Authority" means the New Jersey Water Supply Authority
				  established pursuant to
				  58:1B-1 et seq.
"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.
"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.
"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 building,
				  structures, piping, valves, meters and other control apparatus and equipment,
				  to the extent located on properties or facilities owned by the Authority, to be
				  installed by or on behalf of, and owned by, the purchaser to connect
				  purchaser's 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.