[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
All users of the City of Centralia sewerage system, which said
system includes all treatment plants, works, pumps, valves, mains
and lateral sewers, lift stations, gravity and pressure sewers, the
sewage disposal plant, instrumentalities, properties, and other incidentals,
together with all appurtenances and extensions thereto used by the
City, now or hereafter existing, used or useful in connection with
the collecting, pumping, disposal and treatment of wastewater, as
now or hereafter added to, expanded or improved, shall pay a charge
for the use of said system, with the components of that charge being
as set forth in this Division.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
Each user shall pay for the services provided by the City based
on said user's use of the treatment works as determined by water or
wastewater meter(s) acceptable to the City.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated
for operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes, shall
be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the Enterprise
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). Operational costs shall include
the costs of treatment. Costs associated with debt retirement of borrowed
capital for the treatment works may also be included in this account.
The operation and maintenance account shall cover but not be
limited to the following items:
2.
An account designated for the specific purpose of insuring replacement
needs over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account).
Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be budgeted and made annually
from the operation, maintenance, and replacement revenue in an amount
of eleven thousand six hundred two dollars ($11,602.00).
3.
Fiscal year-end balances in the various accounts 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 and maintenance account and the replacement
account shall be returned to their respective accounts upon appropriate
adjustment of the user charge rates. 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. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
Except as provided below, and in Section 26-124, the monthly user charge shall be based on water used during the month billing period. If a user consumes water or in some other manner uses water that is not returned to the wastewater collection system, the user shall have the option to have the monthly user charge based on wastewater used instead of water used, as measured by a wastewater meter(s) or a separate water meter(s). This may be accomplished by either the direct measurement of actual sewage volume entering the sewerage system or by the use of a secondary water meter or a grouped set of secondary water meters, where the water passing through said secondary meter(s) shall be totally segregated from the wastewater system. The wastewater use would then be defined as the volume of water passing through the primary meter line less that passing through the secondary meter(s). If all the water passing through a primary meter is consumed, then the user shall not be considered connected to the water and sewerage system and thus there shall be no monthly user charge and no monthly charge for each billing account as defined in Section 26-125. Consumption of water shall be subject to verification by the City at any time. If this alternate form of metering is chosen by the user, the user shall pay for the entire cost of the alternate meter(s) and for the entire cost of installing and maintaining said alternate meter(s). Said alternate meter(s) shall be installed and maintained in a manner acceptable to the City. The alternate meter(s) shall be the property of the user. The City shall retain the right to check and calibrate the alternate meter(s).
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
If the Board of Aldermen, in its sole discretion, determines that the alternate methods of measurement of wastewater described in Section 26-123 are for technical or financial reasons, too burdensome on a user who desires to be charged by the amount of wastewater used, the Board of Aldermen, may, by written resolution, authorize and direct the Mayor to enter into an individual written agreement with a user which provides some other accurate method for measuring the amount of the user's wastewater entering the sewerage system. If such an agreement is made and such other method is used then the user's bill shall be calculated by use of the method provided for in the agreement to measure wastewater. If the method agreed to involves use of additional meters or other equipment that must be installed or maintained to comply with the agreement, then the user shall pay for all costs of purchase, installation and maintenance of said meters or other equipment. Said equipment shall be installed, and maintained in a manner acceptable to the City. Such meters or other equipment shall be the property of the user, but the City shall retain the right to check and calibrate, if applicable, said meters or other equipment.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987; Ord. No. 2598 § 1, 2-16-2010; Ord.
No. 2628 § 1, 1-17-2011; Ord. No. 2669 § 1, 2-21-2012; Ord. No. 2852 § 1, 4-18-2016; Ord. No. 2890 § 1, 3-20-2017; Ord. No. 2971, 6-18-2018; Ord. No. 3017, 3-28-2019; Ord. No. 3097, 6-21-2021]
Each user connected to the water and sewerage system shall pay a monthly user charge of $0.192 per one hundred (100) gallons of water used (or wastewater used, if applicable, as explained in Sections 26-123 and 26-124), to cover the costs for operation, maintenance, and replacement of the sewerage system. In addition, each user connected to the water and sewerage system shall pay a monthly charge of twenty-two dollars and eighty cents ($22.80) for each billing account each user has, regardless of the amount of water or wastewater used or whether any water or wastewater is used. For purposes of this Section, “billing account”, shall be defined as the authorized use of City water or wastewater measured by one (1) primary meter or by one (1) primary meter and a grouped set of secondary meters.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
Any user that discharges any toxic pollutants that cause an
increase in the cost of managing the City of Centralia treatment works,
or any user that discharges any substances that singly or by interaction
with other substance cause 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 City Administrator, with said determination then to be approved
by the Board of Aldermen before the amount is charged to the user.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
The charges herein established for the use of the sewerage system
shall apply to all users of the sewerage system, whether they are
located within or outside the City limits of the City of Centralia,
and regardless of their location.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
Service to potential users outside of the corporate limits of
the City shall be at the discretion of the Board of Aldermen.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
To provide for the recovery of costs from industrial users of
the City's wastewater disposal system for the implementation of the
wastewater pretreatment program, the following charges and fees may
be assessed by resolution of the Board of Aldermen:
1.
The fee for monitoring, inspection, and surveillance procedures shall
be ten dollars ($10.00) per year for each location to be monitored.
2.
The fees for any required test or series of tests necessary to measure
compliance with City or State or Federal standards shall be the actual
cost of that test or series of test plus a two dollar ($2.00) handling
fee.
3.
The fee for permit application for pretreatment shall be five dollars
($5.00).
4.
The fee for filing appeals shall be fifty dollars ($50.00).
5.
Fees for removal by the City, under agreement with the user, of pollutants
subject to Federal pretreatment standards and when in accordance with
Federal guidelines shall be set equal to actual costs to the City
for said removal plus three hundred dollars ($300.00) per year.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
Charges prescribed by this Article shall constitute a lien on
the property served by the sewer connection, and if not paid within
ninety (90) days may be enforced and collected in the same manner
as general City taxes.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
The following surcharges shall apply where applicable:
BOD - Ten cents ($.10) per lb. per day.
Suspended Solids - Ten cents ($.10) per lb. per day.
[Ord. No. 1356 § 1, 3-30-1987]
The User Charge System takes precedence over any terms or conditions
of agreements or contracts between the City and users which are inconsistent
with Federal requirements.
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Editor's Note — Ord. No. 2598 § 2, adopted
February 16, 2010, repealed Section 26-133 "methodology for calculation
and implementation of future user charges" in its entirety. Former
Section 26-133 derived from Ord. No. 1356 § 5, 3-30-87.
[Ord. No. 2119 § 1, 8-21-2000]
A.
Effective March 1, 2022, every customer and user of sewer services
supplied by the City, whether inside or outside the City limits, shall
pay to the City an annual fee for each sewer service connection the
customer and user has with the City. The annual fee for each residential
customer sewer service connection shall be eighty cents ($0.80). The
annual fee for each commercial or industrial sewer customer sewer
service connection not served by the City's water system shall be
three dollars ($3.00). The annual fee for each commercial or industrial
sewer customer sewer service connection with a connection to the City's
water system of less than or equal to one (1) inch excluding taps
for fire suppression and irrigation systems shall be three dollars
and forty-two cents ($3.42). The annual fee for each commercial or
industrial sewer customer sewer service connection with a connection
to the City's water system of more than one (1) inch but less than
or equal to four (4) inches excluding taps for fire suppression and
irrigation systems shall be eleven dollars ($11.00). The annual fee
for each commercial or industrial sewer customer sewer service connection
with a connection to the City's water system of more than four (4)
inches excluding taps for fire suppression and irrigation systems
shall be twenty-nine dollars ($29.00). Provided, however, no single
facility served by multiple sewer service connections shall have a
total sewer service connection fee more than seven hundred dollars
($700.00) per year. The annual fee shall be enumerated separately
from all other charges on each customer's bill and shall be collected
by the City in monthly increments.
[Ord. No. 3115, 2-22-2022]
B.
The fee established by this Section is a State fee imposed by Section
644.052 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri for the purpose of funding
a portion of the Missouri Water Pollution Control Program. All fees
collected by the City shall be transferred to the Missouri Department
of Natural Resources as set forth by State regulations, provided that
five percent (5%) of the fees collected shall be retained by the City
for the purpose of reimbursing the City for its expenses for billing
and collection of such State fees.
C.
Collection of the State fees imposed under this Section shall be
suspended or shall end at the times specified by State law.
[1]
State Law Reference — See § 644.052, RSMo.
