[Ord. No. 775 §1, 12-21-1988]
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. 775 §2, 12-21-1988]
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. (Test shall not utilize nitrification inhibitor.)
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose source
of wastewater is located within the corporate limits of the City of
Carl Junction.
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred fifty (250) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than three hundred (300) mg/l.
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor, utilities, billing, equipment replacement,
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.
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose source
of wastewater is located outside the corporate limits of the City
of Carl Junction.
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 "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.
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 or 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 or 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
storm water 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 and approved by the City of Carl Junction.
[Ord. No. 775 §3, 12-21-1988; Ord. No. 00-35 §3, 12-5-2000]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay
costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement which
the City may by ordinance designate to be paid by the user charge
system. The user charge system shall also result in equitable recovery
of capital costs from out-of-town users. 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 purposes as established in Section 720.040, shall be deposited in 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 at least annually
from the operation, maintenance, and replacement revenue in the amount
of eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000.00) annually.
C.
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 returned to their respective accounts
upon appropriate adjustments of the user charge rates for operation,
maintenance and replacement. The user charge rate 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. 775 §4, 12-21-1988; Ord. No. 00-35 §4, 12-5-2000; Ord. No. 02-12 §§1 — 2, 4-16-2002; Ord. No. 04-45 §§1
— 2, 7-6-2004; Ord.
No. 05-26 §2, 6-21-2005; Ord. No. 06-28 §2, 6-6-2006; Ord. No. 07-21 §§1
— 2, 6-18-2007; Ord. No. 07-28 §1, 8-7-2007; Ord. No. 08-31 §§1 — 2, 8-5-2008; Ord. No. 09-25 §§1 — 2, 6-16-2009; Ord. No. 10-22 §§1 — 2, 6-15-2010; Ord. No. 11-22 §2, 8-2-2011; Ord.
No. 12-20 §2, 6-5-2012; Ord. No. 13-21 §§1 —
2, 5-7-2013; Ord. No. 14-17 §§1 — 2, 5-6-2014; Ord. No. 14-34 §1, 10-7-2014; Ord. No. 15-19 §§1 – 2, 6-2-2015; Ord. No. 16-18 §§1
— 2, 5-3-2016; Ord.
No. 18-10, 4-3-2018; Ord. No. 19-16, 5-7-2019; Ord. No. 20-15, 5-19-2020; Ord. No. 21-12, 5-4-2021[1]]
A.
Unless specifically noted otherwise in this Chapter, each user shall
pay for the services provided by the City based on his/her use of
the treatment works as determined by water meters acceptable to the
City.
B.
For residential contributors, monthly user charges will be based
on water used during the current month, as recorded by the residential
water meter. 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 or a separate water meter installed and maintained at the contributor's
expense, and in a manner acceptable to the City.
C.
(Reference is made to Appendix A which is on file in the City Offices). The
minimum charge per month for users living within the corporate limits
of the City of Carl Junction shall be fifteen dollars seven cents ($15.07).
In addition, each in-town user shall pay a user charge rate for operation
and maintenance, including replacement, of two dollars ninety-eight
cents ($2.98) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water used in excess
of the first one thousand (1,000) gallons of water used. In addition,
each in-town user shall pay an additional monthly user fee for infiltration
and inflow abatement in the amount of one dollar ($1.00) per thousand
(1,000) gallons of water used.
D.
(Reference is made to Appendix A which is on file in the City Offices). The
minimum charge per month for users living outside the corporate limits
of the City of Carl Junction shall be sixteen dollars fifty-seven
cents ($16.57). In addition, each out-of-town user shall pay a user
charge rate for operation and maintenance including replacement, of
three dollars twenty-three cents ($3.23) per one thousand (1,000)
gallons of water used in excess of the first one thousand (1,000)
gallons of water used. For administrative purposes and as authorized
by the Board of Aldermen, out-of-town residential users may be charged
a flat rate based on water usage.
E.
(Reference is made to Appendix A which is on file in the City Offices).
For those users 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 surcharge for operation
and maintenance including replacement is:
1.
For in-town users, sixty-five cents ($0.65) per pound BOD in
excess of two hundred fifty (250) mg/l.
2.
For out-of-town users, fifty-six cents ($0.56) per pound BOD
in excess of two hundred fifty (250) mg/l.
3.
For in-town users, forty-two cents ($0.42) per pound SS in excess
of three hundred (300) mg/l.
4.
For out-of-town users, thirty-seven cents ($0.37) per pound
SS in excess of three hundred (300) mg/l.
F.
Any user who discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase
in the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the City's
treatment works, or any user who 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 as determined by the responsible plant operating personnel
and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
G.
The
cost of postage and stationary, if necessary to deliver a printed
statement of charges to the customer, shall be added to the schedule
of monthly charges for sewer service.
[1]
Editor’s Note: Subsection 1 of Ord. No. 21-12 adopted
a new Appendix A to the sewer use charge ordinance (actual use rate
structure) dated May 2021, which is held on file in the City offices.
[Ord. No. 775 §5, 12-21-1988]
A.
All
users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular month shall
be made within thirty (30) days after the end of that month. Payments
are due when the billings are made. Any payment not received within
thirty (30) days after the billing is made shall be delinquent.
B.
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. 775 §6, 12-21-1988]
A.
The
City will review the user charge system at least every two (2) years
and revise user charge rates as necessary to ensure 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.
B.
The
City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with
a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation and maintenance,
including replacement of the treatment works.
