• Sewer Operations and Maintenance Programs
• Sewer System Repairs
• Sources of Inflow and Infiltration
• Report on Operations and Maintenance Activities on Municipal Collection Systems - This report must be remitted by the 10th day following the reporting period.
  

Infiltration And Inflow Reduction Program

This report has been compiled and submitted in accordance with Milestone 3 c) of the Modification dated February 1, 1999, of the Administrative Consent Order (ACO) between the BCUA and the NJDEP that was executed on December 17, 1991.

The purpose of the report is to indicate the progress the BCUA member municipalities have made in the last year in improving the operation and maintenance of local collection systems by BCUA's 46 member municipalities.


The BCUA had established under a previous milestone in the ACO a program to assess the results made by the municipalities in improving the system. The BCUA has established a baseline for each municipality's program in 2000.

The BCUA's municipal reporting program is voluntary at this point in time. The BCUA does not have a contractual or stationary ability to require participation. However, participation of the municipalities in reporting on their systems has been generally good

The BCUA's NJPDES permit previously included as permitted discharge points a number of sewer overflows. These overflows are necessary to relieve high sewage flows that occur during wet weather. In the 1990 renewal of the permit, the NJDEP removed the overflows as permitted discharge points. As these discharge points could not be terminated without creating serious problems in the local collection systems, the BCUA entered into an ACO to terminate their overflow.

On December 17, 1991, the Bergen County Utilities Authority (BCUA) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) entered into an Administrative Consent Order (ACO). The NJDEP modified and amended the December 1991 ACO several times as memorialized in an ACO modification document (ACO Mod) issued by the NJDEP on December 16, 1992; June 22, 1995; December 17, 1996; May 20, 1997; and February 1, 1999, mandating that BCUA terminate all sanitary sewage overflows previously permitted by the NJDEP in the BCUA's NJPDES permit. The ACO requires the termination of sewage overflows from the following locations:

1. Discharge 003 - Located downstream of Bar Racks at BCUA’s Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW), in Little Ferry, New Jersey
2. Discharge 004 - Located on New Bridge Road, Township of Teaneck, New Jersey
3. Discharge 005 - Located on Cedar Lane, within the limits of the existing golf course, City of Englewood, New Jersey
4. Discharge 006 - Located on Forest Avenue, City of Englewood, New Jersey
5. Discharge 007 - Located on Pink Street, adjacent to the BCUA’s Pink Street Pumping Station, City of Hackensack, New Jersey
   

The BCUA completed several engineering studies and to date has permanently terminated three (3) overflows, Overflow 003, 005, and 006. The remaining overflows require the reduction of inflow and infiltration (I/I) to be cost-effectively terminated.

Infiltration and inflow has been a concern of the regulatory agencies since the BCUA's major plant expansion in the 1970s. Several infiltration and inflow (I/I) studies have been performed throughout the service area. The information has been disseminated to the municipalities. The results of the studies show that as much as 50% of the total flow generated by municipalities is generated by I/I flow.

The modified ACO continues the goal of terminating the existing overflows through I/I reduction, requiring the BCUA to conduct an I/I educational program throughout Bergen County municipalities, propose an improved municipal operation and maintenance (O&M) program, track and oversee the progress of its implementation to ultimately eliminate sanitary sewer overflows (SSO) within its collection systems and waste water treatment plant, and establish base line conditions for each BCUA member municipality.

In accordance with paragraph 3.c of the modified ACO, the BCUA is submitting this first annual Municipal Sewer Operation and Maintenance Progress Report concerning the I/I educational program from reports submitted by the municipalities from July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001.