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Aberdeen Township City Zoning Code

§ 25-5.16

Sanitary Sewers and Septic Systems.

a. 
If a public treatment and collection system is accessible or planned, the developer shall construct facilities in accordance with N.J.D.E.P. permit requirements and A.T.M.U.A. rules and regulations and in such a manner as to make adequate sewage treatment available to each lot and structure within the development from said treatment and collection system.
b. 
Individual on-lot treatment plants and collection systems, including, septic systems, shall be designed in accordance with the requirements of the State Health Department or Township ordinances enforced by the Township Department of Health, whichever is more restrictive, and shall be subject to approval by the Township Department of Health.
c. 
No subdivision shall be approved without satisfactory evidence of the availability of public sewage collection and treatment or, where no such public system can be made available, certification by a licensed professional engineer that each lot proposed to be served by an individual septic system can accommodate such septic system without threat to the public health and safety or to health and safety of the lot owner(s). For the purposes of such certification, a minimum of two (2) passing percolation tests and a soil log of one (1) of the passing holes shall be required for each lot, such tests and log to be located within the proposed disposal area. The test results and other applicable requirements regulating location(s) of test holes, etc., shall be in compliance with the "Individual Sewage Disposal Code of New Jersey" and shall be so shown on the plat and certified by a licensed professional engineer. All such tests must be witnessed by the Township Engineer who shall be notified by the developer at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the initiation of the tests.