OFFICIAL SITE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEYBureau Of Water System Engineering
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The Bureau of Water System Engineering (BWSE) is responsible for the protection of public health through the implementation of provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) within New Jersey by ensuring the design, construction, and operation of water supply facilities meets or exceeds the requirements of the Act and the regulations promulgated there under.
The Bureau is divided into three sections:
This section is responsible for:
- Ensuring the protection of public health through the provision of timely and comprehensive Technical and Engineering information, assistance, reviews, and approvals as they relate to the Federal and State Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), associated regulations and current water treatment and distribution technologies.
- Ensuring that the drinking water infrastructure of New Jersey meets the safe drinking water construction standards and applicable regulations.
- Ensuring the proper design, construction, operation, and management of drinking water supply systems.
- Ensuring that public water supply systems have adequate source/treatment and distribution capacity to meet system demands and produce water quality in compliance with the SDWA requirements.
This section is responsible for:
- Administrative review of construction permit applications
- Log in of submittal action documents
- OPRA requests
- Cross Connection Control including physical connection permits
- Special projects
- Bureau administrative support
This sections is responsible for:
- State Revolving Fund/Licensed Operator/Capacity development
- SOC waivers
- Consumer Confidence Reports
- UCMR
- Unregulated Contaminants
- GUDI
- DWQI
- Lab Technical Support
In addition, our Engineering Section is divided into the following units:
This sections works on community and non-community surface water & Ground water Under the Influence (GUDI) systems, related treatment and water quality issues.
Some of the work includes, but is not limited to:
- Surface Water (SW) treatment permits
- Ground Water (GW) treatment permits at SW Systems
- Associated permit inspections
- Engineering support, resiliency, and asset management of SW systems
- SW Corrosion Control Treatment Recommendation (CCTR) & simultaneous compliance support
- Appraisals of Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) corrective action plans that require treatment infrastructure changes at SW systems
- SW source issues
- Disinfection Byproduct (DBP) sampling plans and other issues
- SW disinfection
- SW system inspection
- SW Monthly Operation Report (MOR)
- SW treatment related aspects of Operational Evaluation Level (OEL) reviews
This section works on non surface related treatment and source engineering issues.
Some of the work includes, but is not limited to:
- Ground Water (GW) treatment permits
- New GW source permits
- New community GW water system permits
- New treatment permit inspections
- Engineering support, resiliency, asset management of GW systems
- GW Community Corrosion Control Treatment Recommendations (CCTR) and simultaneous compliance
- Appraisals of Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) corrective action plans that require treatment infrastructure changes at GW systems
- GW system inspection
- GW Monthly Operation Report (MOR)
- GW treatment related aspects of Operational Evaluation Level (OEL) reviews
- 4 Log GWR certifications
- Ground Water Under Direct Influence (GUDI) of surface water evaluations
- Non-Transient, Non-Community water system activities including CCTR reviews, CCTR Permits, and Treatment Permits
This sections works on all public water systems; community and non-community, surface water, ground water, and Ground Water Under the Influence (GUDI) systems, concerning the distribution water quality issues, distribution infrastructure changes and new water demands.
Some of the work includes, but is not limited to:
- Distribution permits
- Lead & Copper rule (LCR) Water Quality Parameters and associated sampling plans
- Revised Total Coliform Rule (TCR) plans
- Engineering support, resiliency, and asset management of bulk purchase only systems
- Operational Evaluation Level (OEL) reviews and referral of treatment aspects to the applicable treatment unit
- Ground Water (GW) Disinfection By Product (DBP) sampling plans
- GIS mapping
- All water main extension, simplified mains, and master permits
- All deficit/surplus evaluations
- Bulk purchase contract including water utilization reports
- Emergency contracts
- Interconnection testing
- Water loss audits
- Storage waivers
- Fifty (50) realty improvements certifications
- Assistance with non-transient, non-community water system activities including excess volume of CCTR reviews, CCTR permits, and Treatment Permits
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