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Regulatory Support
Standards for Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems preventing hydraulic restrictiveness
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due to characteristics of rock substratum
Planning Strategies
Inventory geologically sensitive areas and associated constraints (e.g., location of limestone formation
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and buried valley aquifers, and sources of potential contaminants)
Identify potential threats to life and property (e.g., historic mining activities and associated potential for
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cave-ins)
Provide a stormwater management plan that would match land uses to underlying geology, respective of
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particular environmental sensitivities such as limestone formations
Include notable geologic formations in Open Space Plan, providing protective measures including
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acquisition
Design Strategies
Implement stormwater management plan (e.g., providing water quality protection in geological areas
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vulnerable to infiltrating contaminants; strategic location of stormwater detention basin within limestone
formations; maximizing ground water recharge)
Septic management plan appropriate to existing geologic conditions such as limestone formations
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Arrange cooperative agreements with public and private agencies to cap mine shafts
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Minimize impervious surface to maintain hydrologic regime in geologically sensitive areas such as sand
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and gravel, and limestone areas
Zoning and Site Plan Ordinance
Modifying development regulations to require identification and location of geologic hazards on all
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subdivision and site plan submissions
Limestone Formation Protection Ordinance (North Jersey Resource Conservation and Development
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Council) addressing geologically appropriate site investigation and design, construction and soil
disturbance requirements, response to sinkhole formations, and stormwater runoff management
Well Head Protection Area Ordinance
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Practices
! Township of Washington’s Ordinance regulating activities in the carbonate
area district overlay zone. Underground storage tanks for petroleum products
are not permitted in residential developments. Commercial businesses, too,
excepting service stations, are not permitted underground storage tanks,
unless required for public safety.
! Radon testing and mitigation education provided by the New Jersey Radon
Section and NJ DEP (1-800-648-0394).
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