[CC 1979 §68.700; Ord. No. 2538 §1(68.700), 12-15-1998]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience
of the City of Sullivan, Missouri, to collect charges from all users
who contribute wastewater to the City's treatment works. The proceeds
of such charges so derived shall be used for the purpose of operating
and maintaining, payment of expenses and retiring the debt for the
public wastewater treatment works.
[CC 1979 §68.710; Ord. No. 2538 §1(68.710), 12-15-1998]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
three hundred (300) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not
more than three hundred fifty (350) milligrams per liter (mg/l).
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.
Expenditure 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 "operation
and maintenance" includes replacement.
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot,
parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
The 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.
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial
wastes. These include intercepting sewer, outfall sewers, sewage collection
systems, individual systems, pumping, power and other equipment and
their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling additions
and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable
recycled supply such as a standby treatment unit 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 composting 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 stormwater
and sanitary sewer systems.
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
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.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by the City of Sullivan or furnished and/or installed by
a user and approved by the City of Sullivan, Missouri.
[CC 1979 §68.720; Ord. No. 2538 §1(68.720), 12-15-1998]
A.
The user
charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay costs
of annual operation and maintenance, including replacement, and a
portion of the costs associated with debt retirement of bonded capital
associated with financing the treatment works which the City may by
ordinance designate to be paid by the user charge system. That portion
of the total user charge which is designated for operation and maintenance,
including replacement of the treatment works, shall be established
by this Chapter.
B.
That
portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for
operation and maintenance, including replacement of the treatment
works, shall be established by this Chapter.
C.
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes as established in Section 715.040, shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund and will be kept in two (2) primary accounts as follows:
1.
An account
designated for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance
costs (excluding replacement) of the treatment works (Operation and
Maintenance Account).
2.
An account
designated for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement needs
over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account).
Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made annually from the
operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount of twenty-four
thousand five hundred thirty dollars ($24,530.00).
D.
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 Fund shall be transferred 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.
[CC 1979 §68.730; Ord. No. 2538 §1(68.730), 12-15-1998; Ord. No. 2907 §1(68.730), 1-6-2004; Ord. No. 3038 §§1 —
2, 11-1-2005; Ord. No.
3098 §1, 9-19-2006; Ord. No. 3139 §1, 4-17-2007; Ord. No. 3235 §1, 4-15-2008]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City of Sullivan based
on his/her use of the treatment works as determined by water meters
acceptable to the City.
1.
Rate
classifications shall be as follows:
a.
Residential contributors. Monthly user charges will be based
on the water usage during the current month. This usage shall be determined
by the individual water meter. However, when a single meter serves
more than one (1) customer, the minimum charge shall apply to each
residential housing unit.
b.
Industrial and commercial contributors. User charges shall
be based on water used during the current month with a minimum charge
per independent unit.
2.
Determination of quantity of water used from other than City sources. The quantities of water used from sources other than the water system
of the City shall be determined by the office of the Water and Sewer
Commissioner.
3.
Accounts using more water than discharged into sewers.
a.
Accounts
which use water over and above that discharged into sanitary sewers
may apply for adjustments under provisions of this Section.
b.
Among
those water usages which result in the quantity of water reaching
the sewers being less than that passing the water meters are the following:
(1)
Evaporation, from cooling towers and similar installations.
(2)
Water in product, such as in concrete or bottling plants.
(3)
Cooling or process water discharged to open channel. This would be
permitted only when the water is unpolluted.
(4)
Lawn sprinkling, nurseries, truck farms, vineyards, and the like.
(5)
Swimming pools in excess of twenty thousand (20,000) gallons (one
thousand eight hundred ten (1,810) cubic feet); only when water is
drained to open channels and is unpolluted.
4.
Adjustments generally. When any commercial or industrial
or governmental establishment using in excess of seventeen thousand
(17,000) gallons of water per month, furnished the City with evidence
satisfactory to the City that such establishment actually discharged
into the public sewers preceding calendar year less than ninety percent
(90%) of the water used by such establishment, the City may adjust
the sewer service charges of such establishment for the next subsequent
calendar year by computing the same either on the basis of water discharged
into the public sewers or by flat rate rather than on the amount of
water consumption of such establishment.
5.
Requests for adjustment of charges.
a.
Any
request for an adjustment in sewer charges shall be made by application
in the office of the Billing Clerk. The person requesting the adjustment
shall furnish satisfactory evidence in writing that the adjustment
is justified. The Billing Clerk will forward the application to the
Water and Sewer Commissioner. If the Water and Sewer Commissioner
concurs that the adjustment is justified, it shall also notify the
applicant. Should the Water and Sewer Commissioner not find the adjustment
justified, it shall notify the applicant with an explanation of the
reasons.
b.
If
an unusually high water meter reading results from a leak or from
the necessity of having to estimate prior meter readings, an adjustment
in sewer service charges may be granted based upon the prior three
(3) months usage.
6.
The minimum charge per unit per month shall be as set out in Section 160.330 of this Code. In addition, each residential, commercial or industrial contributor shall pay a user charge for operation and maintenance, including replacement, as set out in Section 160.330 of this Code. Reference is hereby made to Appendix A, which is on file in the office of the City Clerk, in fixing the above charges.
7.
Any
user which discharges any pollutants which cause an increase in the
cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the City of Sullivan's
treatment works, or any other user which discharges any substance
which singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable
increases in the cost of operation, maintenance or replacement of
the treatment works shall pay for such increased costs. The charge
to each user shall be determined by the responsible plant operating
personnel as outlined in Appendix A, which is on file in the office
of the City Clerk, or by some other method chosen by the responsible
plant operating personnel and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
8.
The
user charge rates established in this Section apply to all users,
regardless of their location, of the City of Sullivan's treatment
works.
9.
Sewer charge adjustment for residential uses. The sewer
customer may request a deduction on their sewer bill for water which
is used but does not enter the sanitary sewer system. In every case,
a request for deduction shall be made by written application on forms
provided by the City of Sullivan and shall be subject to the following
regulations:
a.
No
deductions shall be granted for users of the sewer system who do not
have a metered water supply.
b.
No deductions shall be granted for users of the sewer system who are delinquent in their payment to the City for such service. Delinquent is defined as provided in Section 700.040 "Utility Bills Due — Delinquent — Penalty" of City Code.
c.
One
hundred percent (100%) of any used water for which a deduction is
requested, must have been prevented from entering the sanitary sewer
system.
d.
The
Water and Sewer Commissioner shall determine which waters are eligible
for discharge to some point other than the sanitary sewer system,
and shall have the authority to prohibit discharges which he determines
to be potentially harmful to the public health, safety or welfare;
provided, however, that no water which contains suspended matter in
any form (organic or inorganic) or which contains any dissolved substances,
shall be eligible for discharge to any point other than the sanitary
sewer system, including storm sewers or any other watercourse, without
approval of the City.
e.
Metered deductions. Users who, at their own expense, request
the City to allow the installation of a deduct meter which measures
water not entering the sanitary sewer system shall be eligible for
deduction of that used water from April 1 to October 1 annually.
[Ord. No. 3557 §1, 2-5-2013]
(1)
Any such meter shall be of an approved design, shall be registered
with the Utility Billing Clerk of the City of Sullivan prior to use,
and shall be used only by the user to whom it is registered and at
the service location to which it is assigned.
(2)
Thereafter, the City shall read said meters at the beginning
and end of the deduct period and those readings utilized to determine
any metered usage since the previous readings.
(3)
The Utility Billing Clerk shall then credit the user's
sewer account by subtracting the initial reading from the final reading,
as taken from the meter, multiplying the difference by the current
user charge, and then deducting one hundred percent (100%) of that
product from the next billing.
(4)
The Water and Sewer Commissioner shall have authority over the
installation of meters used for deduction and, from time to time,
test the accuracy of said meters. If a meter indicates more than a
two-percent error, the meter shall be repaired or replaced at the
owner's expense prior to being placed back into service.
(5)
(Reserved)
(6)
The user shall purchase the meter from a City-approved source
and shall be responsible for the maintenance and installation of the
meter.
f.
Metering of in-ground irrigation systems. Users who, at
their own expense, obtain their own meter dedicated for in-ground
irrigation systems shall be eligible for the elimination of their
sewer charge for that water used as follows.
(1)
Any such meter shall be of an approved design, shall be registered
with the Utility Billing Clerk of the City of Sullivan prior to use,
and shall be used only by the user to whom it is registered and at
the service location to which it is assigned.
(2)
The City will periodically read said meters from April first (1st)
until October first (1st) annually.
(3)
The Water and Sewer Commissioner shall have authority over the installation
of meters used for deduction and, from time to time, test the accuracy
of said meters. Any repairs to such meters, due to normal operational
malfunction will be the responsibility of the City.
[CC 1979 §68.750; Ord. No. 2538 §1(68.750), 12-15-1998]
The City of Sullivan will review the user charge system annually
and revise user charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system
generates adequate revenues to pay the cost 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.
