[Ord. No. 3637 Art. I, 4-5-1993]
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 sewer system. The proceeds of such charges so derived
will be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining and retiring
the debt for such public sewer system.
[Ord. No. 3637 Art. II §§1
— 11, 4-5-1993; Ord. No. 4484 §2, 9-17-2007]
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 Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/1).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than two hundred fifty (250) mg/1, a suspended solids concentration of not more than three hundred (300) mg/1 and any other pollutant in concentrations defined in Chapter 705, Public and Private Sewers (Sewer Use Ordinance), or established by the City.
All expenditures during the useful life of the sewer system
for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the sewer system to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such system was designed and constructed.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
sewer system 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 sewer system whose lot, parcel
of real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial
wastes. These include interceptor 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 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.
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
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.
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 sewer system or any portion thereof.
The estimated period (twenty (20) year) during which a sewer
system or equipment will be operated.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by the City of Dexter or furnished and/or installed by a
user and approved by the City of Dexter.
[Ord. No. 3637 Art. III §§1
— 3, 4-5-1993; Ord.
No. 4484 §2, 9-17-2007]
A.Â
Purpose. The purpose of this Chapter is to assure that
the user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to
pay costs of annual operation, maintenance and replacement and the
costs associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the sewer system which the City may, by ordinance,
designate to be paid by the user charge rate. Funds (accounts) to
accomplish this have been set by Bond Issue Ordinance No. 4387, adopted
February 6, 2006. This Sewer User Charge System Ordinance further
details the sewer user charge rates and gives illustrations of how
those rates were determined.
B.Â
Accounts. That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation, maintenance and replacement purposes as established in Section 710.040 shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the Operating, Maintenance and Replacement Fund and will be kept in two (2) primary accounts as follows:
1.Â
An account designated for the specific purpose of defraying operation
and maintenance costs, excluding replacement, of the sewer system
(Operation and Maintenance Account).
2.Â
An account designated for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement
needs over the useful life of the sewer system equipment (Depreciation
and Replacement Account). Deposits in the Replacement Account shall
be made at least annually from the operation, maintenance and replacement
revenue in the amount of thirty-four thousand dollars ($34,000.00)
annually. (Reference is made to Appendix "B" and Appendix "C" which
are on file in the City offices.)
C.Â
Year-End Balances. 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. 3637 Art. IV §§1
— 3, 4-5-1993; Ord.
No. 4484 §2, 9-17-2007]
A.Â
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on his/her
use of the sewer system as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
B.Â
For
residential contributors, monthly user charges will be based on water
used during the current month.
For industrial and commercial contributors, user charges shall
be based on water used during the current month. If a commercial or
industrial contributor has a consumptive use of water or in some other
manner uses water which is not returned to the wastewater collection
system, the user charge for that contributor may be based on a wastewater
meter(s) or separate water meter(s) installed and maintained at the
contributor's expense and in a manner acceptable to the City.
C.Â
(Reference is made to Appendix "A" of this ordinance, which is on file in the City offices.) The sewer and water rates shall be set out in Section 700.020 of this Code. The minimum sewer charge per month shall be five dollars ($5.00). In addition, each contributor shall pay a sewer user charge rate of one dollar ninety-five cents ($1.95) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water used. The user rate is for operation, maintenance, replacement, debt retirement and other miscellaneous expenses of the wastewater system as determined in the preceding Section. Refer to Section 710.050 for surcharges added for certain (industrial) users.
[Ord. No. 5013, 11-1-2021[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance provided an effective date of
1-1-2022.
[Ord. No. 3637 Art. IV §4, 4-5-1993; Ord. No. 4484 §2, 9-17-2007]
(Reference is made to Appendix "A", which is on file in the
City offices.) For those contributors who contribute wastewater, the
strength of which is greater than normal domestic sewage, a surcharge
in addition to the normal user charge will be collected. The surcharges
for operation, maintenance and replacement are:
$0.161186 per pound Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)
$0.134281 per pound Total Suspended Solids (TSS)
[Ord. No. 3637 Art. IV §5, 4-5-1993]
Any user discharging or proposing to discharge any toxic pollutant(s)
that will or could increase the cost of managing the effluent or the
sludge from the City's sewer system or any user discharging any substance
which singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable
increase in the cost of operation, maintenance or replacement of the
sewer system shall pay for such increased costs. The charge to each
such user shall be as determined by the Wastewater Department Superintendent
and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
[Ord. No. 3637 Art. IV §6, 4-5-1993]
The user charge rates established in this Chapter apply to all
users, regardless of their location, of the City's sewer system.
[Ord. No. 3637 Art. VI §1, 4-5-1993]
The City will review this Sewer User Charge System Ordinance
at least every two (2) years and revise the user charge rates as necessary
to ensure that the system generates adequate revenues to pay the costs
of operation, maintenance and replacement of any component of the
sewer system. During that review, the City will also ensure that the
user charge rates continue to provide for the proportional distribution
of operation, maintenance and replacement costs among users and user
classes.
[Ord. No. 3637 Art. VI §2, 4-5-1993]
The City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction
with a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation, maintenance
and replacement of the sewer system.
[Ord. No. 4476 §1, 8-20-2007]
A.Â
A system
of electronic in-ground water meters (which includes the attached
ERT units) shall be installed to replace the current in-ground water
meter system for all customers and shall be installed for all new
customers.
1.Â
The electronic in-ground water meters shall be owned and operated
solely by the City of Dexter and shall remain the property of the
City of Dexter even though installed on a customer's real estate.
2.Â
Only authorized City of Dexter employees may install, repair, maintain
or remove such in-ground water meters, in whole or in part.
