United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Water
Regulations and Standards
Washington, DC 20460
EPA 440/5-88-066
September 1988
State Water  Quality
Standards Summary:
New Jersey

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                        Standards Branch
            Criteria and Standards Division (WH-585)
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                                         NEW   JERSEY


 Responsible   Agency:                       State   Contact:
  New Jersey Departient  of  Environiental  Protection                Shing-Fu   Hsueh,  Ph.D
  P.O.  Box  CN-402                                              Chief,  Bur. of Hater
                                                              Quality Standards and Analysis, Div. of
                                                              Hater Resources, N.J. Dept. of Environ.
  Trenton                08625                     ,             Protection;  P.O. Box CN-029
  609-292-2885                                                 Trenton  .  '          08625       609-633-7020

 Standards   Available   From:           State  Contact:
  Mr.  Douglas M. Clark,  Assistant  Director
  Monitoring and Planning Eleient
  Div.  of Hater Resources,  N.J.  Dept.  of
  Environ.  Protection;   P.O. Box CN-029
  Trenton                08625
  609-633-7010   Fees  no       Mailing List:  no

 State   Narrative  Language  For:  Antidegradation
  1.   These antidegradation policies   apply to all surface waters  of  the State.
  2.   Existing uses shall be iaintained and protected.  Designated uses shall be maintained or, as soon as tech-
  nically and econoiically  feasible, be attained wherever  these uses  are not precluded by natural conditions.
  3.  No irreversible changes may  be made to existing water quality that would impair or preclude attainment to
  the designated uses of  a waterway.
  4,  No changes shall be allowed  in waters which constitute an outstanding  National or State resource or in
  waters that lay affect  these   outstanding resource waters.
  5.  Where water quality exceeds  levels necessary to support  the  designated  uses, including but not limited
  to, propagation of fish, shellfish,  and wildlife and recreation  in  and on  the water, that quality shall be
  iaintained and protected unless  the  Departient finds, after  full stisfaction of the intergovernmental coordin-
  ation and public participation provisions of the Department's continuing planning process as set forth in this
  subchapter, that allowing lower water quality is necessary to accommodate  important economic or social devel-
  opment in  the area in which the waters are located.
  6.  Hhere a lower classification of  water (including the different  antidegradation waters) lay impinge upon a
  higher classification of water the Department shall ensure that  the quality and uses of the higher classifica-
  tion water are protected.                             .
  7.  A waterway or waterbody from which raw water is transferred to  another waterway or waterbody shall be
  treated as a tributary  to the waterway or waterbody receiving the transferred water.
  8.  Modifications of water quality   based effluent limitations established to implement this antidegradation
  policy may be granted pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:9-4.8 and 4.9.

State   Narrative  Language  For:   Toxics
  Toxic substances in waters of the State shall not be at levels that are toxic  to humans or the aquatic biota,
  or that bioaccumulate in the aquatic biota so as to render them unfit for human consumption.

State   Narrative  Language  For:   Free   From
  Toxic substances in waters of the State shall not be at levels that are toxic  to humans or the aquatic biota,
 or that bioaccueulate in the aquatic biota so as to render them unfit for human consumption.

State   Narrative  Language  For:   Low  Flow
 Kater quality criteria are expected to be maintained during periods when stream flows are at  or greater than
  the HA7CD10 flow.
 Hater quality criteria are expected to be maintained in intermittent streams  during  all natural  flow
 conditions.  Hhen  the intermittent stream does not contain natural  flow  of  sufficient magnitude to  determine
 water quality,  the criteria to be maintained in the intermittent stream  will  be those pertaining to the
 measurable natural flow immediately downstream of the intermittent  stream.

State   Narrative   Language   For:   Mixing   Zones


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Hater quality within a mixing zone nay be allowed to fall below applicable  water quality criteria provided
the existing and designated uses  outside the mixing zone are not adversely impacted.
Mixing zone requireients will be deteriined by the Departssnt (New Jersy Department of Environmental
Protection) on a case-by-case basis taking into special consideration the  extent and nature of the receiving
waters so as to leet the intent and purpose of the criteria and standards.
The total area and volute of a waterway or waterbody assigned to lixing zones shall be limited to that which
will not interfere with biological coiiunities or populations of important species to a degree which is
damaging to the ecosystem or which diminishes other beneficial uses disproportionately.  Furthermore, signifi-
cant acute mortality of aquatic biota shall not occur within the mixing zone.
Zones of passage shall be provided for the passage of free-swimming and  drifting organisms wherever mixing
zones are allowed.
Temperature changes in designated heat dissipation areas shall not cause mortality of the aquatic biota nor
create conditions which allow the introduction or maintenance of populations of undesirable organisms at
nuisance levels.
Hhere waste discharges would result in heat dissipation areas in such close proximity to each other as to
impair protected uses, additional limitations shall be prescribed to avoid such impairment.
No heat dissipation areas shall be permitted in waters classified as FH2-TP or within 1500 feet of the
shoreline in SC waters.                                                                   "
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                                        NEW  JERSEY
Classifications:                                                              ,               ,
 Fresh Haters                  Definition:   those fresh waters that orinate in and are wholly within  Federal or
 Class Fl(1                     State parks,  forests,  fish,  and  wildlife lands, and other special  holdings,
                               that are to  be maintained in their natural  state of quality and  not subjected to
                               any man-made  wastewater discharges.
                               Designated Uses:   1)   Set aside for posterity to represent the natural aquatic
                               environment and its associated  biota;   2) Primary and  secondary  contact
                               recreation;   3} Haintenance,  migration  and  propagation  of  the  natural and
                               established aquatic biota;   4)  Any  other reasonable uses.
 Fresh Haters
 FH2
 Fresh Haters
 Class PL
Saline Haters
Class SEi
Saline Haters
Class 5E2
Saline Haters
Class SE3
Saline Haters
Class SC
 Definition:   Beneral  surface water classification applied to those fresh waters
 that  are  not  designated  as FH1 or Pinelands Haters.
 Designated Uses:   1)  Haintenance, migration and propagation of the natural and
 established biota;  2) Primary and secondary contact recreation;  3) Industrial
 and agricultural water supply;  4) Public potable water supply after such
 treatment as  required by law or regulation;  5) Any other reasonable uses.

 Definition:   Beneral  surface water classification applied to Pinelands Haters.
 Designated Uses:   1)  Cranberry bog  water supply and other agricultural uses;
 2} Haintenance, migration and propagation of the natural and established biota
 indigenous to this unique ecological system;  3) Public potable water supply
 after such treatment  as  required by law or regulations;  4) Primary and
 secondary contact  recreation;  5) Any other reasonable uses.

 Designated Uses:  1)  Shellfish Harvesting in accordance with N.J.A.C, 7:i2;
 2)  Haintenance, migration, and propagation of the natural and established
 biota;  3)  Primary and secondary contact recreation;  4) Any other reasonable
 uses,

 Designated uses:  i)  Haintenance, migration and propagation of the natural and
 established biota;   2)  Higration of diadromous fish;  3) Haintenance of
 wildlife;   4)   Secondary contact recreation;  5) Any other reasonable uses.

Designated uses:  1)  Secondary contact recreation;   2) Haintenance and
migration  of fish population;   3)  Higration  of  diadroaous fish;  4)  Haintenance
of wildlife;   5) Any other reasonable uses.
             Beneral surface water classification applied to coastal  saline
Definition:
waters.
Designated uses:  1) Shellfish harvesting in accordance with N.J.A.C.  7:12;
2) Primary and secondary contact recreation;  3}  Haintenance, migration  and
propagation of the natural and established biota;  4)   Any other reasonable  use.
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                                                  NEW   JERSEY
 Physical
      pH
          Upper Value
          Lower Value
      Dissolved Oxygen
          Loner Value
      Teaperature
          Upper Value
      Tesperature Change
          Upper Value
     Turbidity
          Upper Value
          Secondary Upper Liiit
     Total Dissolved Solids
          Upper Value

 Nutrients
     Nitrate
          Upper Value
     Phosphorus
          Upper Value

 Toxic Metals
     Arsenic
          Upper Value
     Cad«iui
          Upper Value
     Chroaiui - Total
          Upper Value
     Lead
          Upper Value
     Hercury
         Upper Value
     Bariui
         Upper Value
     Seleniui
         Upper Value
    Silver
         Upper Value

Pesticides
    Aldrin & Dieldrin
         Upper Value
    Chlordane
         Upper Value
    DDT & Hetabolites
         Upper Value
    Endosulfan
         Upper  Value
                                          All
                                          Classes
                     Fresh  Haters
                     Class  FH1
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0.0019 ug/L
0.0010 ug/L
Fresh Haters
FH2
8.5
6.5

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                                       50
                                       15
       NTU
       NTU
                                       500    ig/L
                                       0.05   total  P



                                       50     ug/L

                                       10     ug/L

                                       50     ug/L

                                       50     ug/L

                                       2       ug/L

                                       1000    ug/L

                                       10      ug/L

                                       50      ug/L
                                      0.0043 ug/L
                                                                               0.056   ug/L
Fresh Haters
Class PL
                                                          5.5
                                                          3.5
                                                                 •g/L
                                                           NJ-4

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    Eldrin
         Upper Value
    Heptachlor
         Upper Value
    Lindane
         Upper Value
    Toxaphene
         Upper Value

Organics
    Phenols
         Upper Value
    PCBs
         Upper Value

Bacteria
    Fecal Colifori
         Upper Value
All
Classes

0.0023 ug/L
                                                            Fresh Haters
                                                            Class FH1
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Fresh Waters
FH2
                                      0.0038 ug/L

                                      0.080  ug/L

                                      0.013  ug/L
Fresh Haters
Class PL
                                      0.014   ug/L
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Physical
PH
Upper Value
Loner Value
Dissolved Oxygen
Lower Value
Turbidity
Upper Value
Secondary Upper Liiit
Total Dissolved Solids
Upper Value
Nutrients " " - .
Toxic Metals
Pesticides
Chlordane
Upper Value
Endosulfan
Upper Value
Heptachlor
Upper Value
Lindane
Upper Value
Toxaphene
Upper Value
Organics
PCBs
Saline Haters
Class SE1


8.5
6.5



30 NTU
10 NTU

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0.0040 ug/L

O.OOB7 ug/L

0.0036 ug/L

0.004 ug/L

0.005 ug/L


Saline Maters
Class SŁ2


8.5
6.5

4.0 tg/L

30 NTU
NTU

Narr.




0,0040 ug/L

0.0087 ug/L

0.0036 ug/L

, 0.004" ug/L

0.005 ug/L


Saline Haters
Class SE3


8.5
6.5

3.0 §g/L

50 NTU
15 NTU

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0.0040 ug/L

0.0087 ug/L

0.0036 ug/L

0.004 ug/L

0.005 ug/L


Saline Maters
Class SC


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5.0 ig/L

10.0 NTU
NTU






0.0040 ug/L

0.0087 ug/L

0.0036 ug/L

0.004 ug/L

0.005 ug/L


         Upper  Value

Bacteria
    Fecal Colifon
         Upper  Value
0.030  ug/L
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0.030  ug/L
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0.030  ug/L
Narr.
0.030  ug/L
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                                                         NJ-6

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