N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-6.5

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 17, September 3, 2024

Section 7:14A-6.5 - Monitoring

(a) Monitoring requirements are as follows:

1. Samples and measurements taken for the purpose of monitoring shall be representative of the monitored activity.

2. The permittee shall perform all analyses in accordance with the analytical test procedures specified in 40 C.F.R. 136 or, in the case of residual use or disposal, in 40 C.F.R. 136 unless otherwise specified in 40 C.F.R. 503, or unless other test procedures have been specified in the permit. Where no approved test procedure is available, the permittee shall indicate a suitable analytical procedure and shall provide the Department with literature references or a detailed description of the procedure. The Department shall determine the appropriate procedure and require that procedure in the NJPDES permit. The laboratory performing the analyses shall be certified by the Department for the analysis of those specific parameters in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:18. Information concerning laboratory approval and/or certification may be obtained from:

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Office of Quality Assurance

PO Box 424

Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0424

(609) 292-3950

(b) All permittees shall:

1. Properly install, use, and maintain monitoring equipment and use proper monitoring methods (including biological monitoring methods when appropriate);

2. Properly monitor the discharge in accordance with the monitoring type, interval, and frequency as specified in the permit;

i. Certain discharges of non-contact cooling water shall be exempt from monitoring, unless specifically required by the Department, where the applicant's activities do not affect the following constituents: COD, BOD, TSS, pH, and/or settleable solids.

ii. Bacterial monitoring shall not be required for facilities which do not receive wastewater containing pathogenic organisms, including fecal coliform, E. coli or enterococci organisms, unless otherwise required by the Department;

3. Comply with the reporting requirements specified in the permit; and

4. Monitor in accordance with the edition of the Department's "Field Sampling Procedures Manual" applicable at the time of sampling or an alternate method approved by the Department.

(c) If the Department has reason to believe that the accuracy and/or precision of one or more analyses is inadequate to provide a reasonable estimate of effluent quality, the Department shall, upon written notification, require any facility that analyzes its effluent samples at a laboratory it directly or indirectly owns, operates or manages to annually have one of its permit-required periodic sampling analyses performed by a certified laboratory which is not owned, operated or managed by the permittee. This shall be broadly construed to include all the sample analyses that are to be performed during the course of routine hourly, daily, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual sampling.

(d) Requirements for automatically adjusting effluent monitoring frequency are as follows:

1. Any permittee shall automatically adjust its effluent monitoring and reporting frequency to monthly when the permittee:

i. Reports effluent values that would make the permittee a serious violator for one or more parameters for which the permittee is required to report less frequently than monthly. Monthly reporting is only required for parameters with serious violations. (However, NJPDES-SIU permittees shall resample within 30 days of becoming aware of any violation if required by 40 C.F.R. Part 403); or

ii. Fails to submit a completed Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR).

2. The monthly reporting required by (d)1 above shall begin the first month after the submission of the DMR or the month in which the permittee was required to submit the completed DMR or the Baseline Report (BR) to the Department which results in the permittee becoming a serious violator. If the Department grants an affirmative defense pursuant to 7:14-8.3(i) for an effluent violation, the violation shall not be considered a serious violation and shall not be subject to monthly reporting under (d)1 above.

3. Any permittee required to adjust its monitoring and reporting pursuant to (d)1 above shall continue this monthly schedule until the permittee has submitted six consecutive monthly DMRs that show compliance with the particular serious violation parameter at the particular discharge point, at which time the permittee may resume the original schedule in its permit.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-6.5

Administrative change.
See: 38 N.J.R. 1445(a).
Amended by R.2009 d.7, effective 1/5/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1478(a), 41 N.J.R. 142(a).
In (b)2ii, inserted ", E. coli" and deleted the former last sentence; and in (d)3, substituted "DMRs that" for "Discharge Monitoring Reports which".