In addition to any other fees, charges, sewer
rents, or sanitary district taxes provided by law, the owner or tenant
of any parcel of real property connected with the sewer system by
any means may be required to pay an industrial wastewater surcharge
for use of the wastewater treatment works for discharging industrial
wastes or other wastes accepted for admission into the system other
than normal sewage. The industrial wastewater surcharge shall consist
of, but not be limited to, the following charges:
B. Operation and maintenance charges.
The industrial wastewater surcharge shall be
based upon the measured or estimated constituents and characteristics
of the wastewater discharge of the user which may include, but are
not limited to: flow rate, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), total suspended solids (TSS), total phosphorous (TP),
total nitrogen (TKN), and total organic carbon (TOC). The wastewater
constituents and characteristics used to calculate the industrial
waste surcharge will be those determined by the City. Any data provided
by the user may be used in addition to the data obtained by the City.
In applying the surcharge formula, the City
may represent flow discharged into the sewer system by:
A. The volume of wastewater discharged into the sewer
system as determined by the measurements and samples taken at a monitoring
facility installed by the owner of the property served by the sewer
system; or
B. The amount of water supplied to the premises as shown
on the water meter, or water records if the premises are metered.
Allowances for water not discharged to the sewer system will be made
at the discretion of the City; or
C. A figure determined by the City by any combination
of the foregoing or by any other equitable method.
In the event that the pollutant concentration of the waste discharged from a premises to a public sewer, as determined under §
456-124 of this article, is disputed by a user, a program of resampling and flow measurement with subsequent analytical determination may be instituted as follows:
A. The person must submit a request for resampling of
the wastes and flow measurement to the Superintendent.
B. An independent consultant or agency of recognized
professional standing in the employ of the user must confer with representatives
of the City in order that an agreement may be reached as to the various
factors which must be considered on a new sampling and flow measurement
program.
C. The consultant or agency of recognized professional
standing employed by the user shall conduct a resampling and reanalysis
program, under the direction of the Superintendent for at least two,
twenty-four-hour periods.
D. The results of the resampling and the reanalysis shall
be considered to be the current analysis of the wastes discharged
to the sewer system and shall be used for determining the acceptability
of the sampling and analysis results in question. The new results
may be used in place of the results in question or in addition to
other data collected by the City for determining the industrial waste
surcharge, and/or compliance with this chapter.
E. All costs of sampling, analysis and flow measurements
are to be paid by the user.
Payment of the industrial waste surcharge within
the time period allotted by the City of Norwich shall be made to the
City by the industrial user after receiving the industrial wastewater
surcharge bill, unless other arrangements for payment have been made
and approved by the City. Failure to submit timely payment of any
industrial wastewater surcharge as determined under this article will
subject the user to a penalty of 1 1/2% of the unpaid amount
for each month or part thereof that the surcharge remains unpaid.