[Ord. No. 793 §1]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience
of the City to collect charges from all users who contribute wastewater
to the City's treatment works. The proceeds of such charges so derived
will be used for the purpose of operating and maintaining the public
wastewater treatment works.
[Ord. No. 793 §2]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting the Biochemical Oxygen Demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at 20 degrees C, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
204 mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than 240
mg/l.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor utilities, and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
REPLACEMENT
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such works were designed and constructed. The term "operating and
maintenance" includes replacement.
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot,
parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
SS (Donating Suspended Solids)
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling,
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial
wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage
collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other
equipment and their appurtenances; extensions improvement, remodeling,
additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a
reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear
well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the
land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is
used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment
(including land for compositing sludge, temporary storage of such
compost, and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land
treatment systems before land application); or any other method or
system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating,
or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste
in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
USER CHARGE
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which
is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation,
maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Palmyra or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Palmyra.
[Ord. No. 793 §4]
Fiscal year-end balances in the Operation and Maintenance Account
and the Replacement Account shall be carried over to the same accounts
in the subsequent fiscal year, and shall be used for no other purposes
than those designated for these accounts. Monies which have been transferred
from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the Operation, Maintenance
and Replacement Funds shall be returned to their respective accounts
upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates for operation,
maintenance, and replacement. The user charge rate(s) shall be adjusted
such that the transferred monies will be returned to their respective
accounts within the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which
the monies were borrowed.
[Ord. No. 793 §6]
All users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular
month shall be made within thirty (30) days after the end of the month.
Payments are due when the billings are made. Any payment not received
within thirty (30) days after billing is made shall be delinquent.
[Ord. No. 793 §7]
A late payment penalty of ten percent (10%) of the user charge
bill will be added to each delinquent bill for each thirty (30) days
of delinquency. When any bill is thirty (30) days in default, rendition
of water and/or sewer service to such premises shall be discontinued
until such bill is paid following due notice and opportunity for hearing.
[Ord. No. 793 §8]
The City will review the user charge system at least every two
(2) years, and revise user charge rates as necessary to insure that
the system generates adequate revenues to pay the costs of operation
and maintenance including replacement and that the system continues
to provide for the proportional distribution of operation and maintenance
including replacement costs among users and user classes.
[Ord. No. 793 §9]
The City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction
with a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation maintenance
including replacement of the treatment works.