New Jersey Discharger - Vol. 10 No. 3 D

	Vol. 10 No. 3 Winter 2002
A Newsletter About New Jersey's Water Quality Programs

More NJPDES Program Information Available on the Internet
by William F. Boehle, Chief, Bureau of Permit Management

Have you visited the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) web site lately? This site is your portal to information on all of the Division's programs, including forms, checklists, regulations, and bureau contacts. Find it at: www.state.nj.us/dep/dwq.

The DWQ receives many public requests for information from the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) database. Rather than treating each of these inquiries as a custom retrieval, which takes time and money to produce, the Division has made some of this information available on-line, at no cost, in a limited format. Some of the more popular and most requested information has been posted on the web site for download and updates and expanded information is made available on a periodic basis. The direct link for accessing this information is http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dwq/database.htm.

The types of information that can be downloaded from this site include the following:

The NJPDES Archive Database which contains the names, addresses and other information of all permitted New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) dischargers that were in the old NJPDES database when it was shutdown on 12/31/00.
The NJPDES Active Permit Report which contains the names, addresses and other information of all active permitted New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) dischargers that are in the Department's new NJEMS database.
Municipal Surface Water Discharger Flow Data. This data is in Microsoft Excel format and lists average annual flow data since 1994, and the highest rolling three month average flow and available capacity (1996 - 2001) for municipal surface water dischargers.
An address list for facilities reporting bioassay test data. This data is in Microsoft Excel format and lists the NJPDES Number, Name and Mailing Address for those facilities reporting bioassay test data (acute and/or chronic) on their Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs) after 1/1/99 and which are still active.

Recently added to the web site is a crosslink to a series of reports that are available through the Department's Open Public Records Act web site. These semi-custom reports are generated through a link to the NJEMS database system. In addition to lists of permits selectable by a variety of categories, this interactive link allows for the retrieval and download of NJPDES Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) and Wastewater Characterization Report (WCR) data. The DMR and WCR data became available for user selected periods beginning in July 2000. The report displays the raw data as reported by the permittees to the Department.

If you have questions concerning NJPDES data that is available via the Internet or custom retrievals, you may contact the Bureau of Permit Management at (609) 984-4428.

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