Unless the context specifically and clearly
indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this
article shall be as follows:
AUTHORITY
The Bonneauville Borough Municipal Authority, a municipality
authority of the commonwealth.
BILLING UNIT
Includes, as applicable, a commercial establishment, a dwelling
unit, an industrial establishment or an institutional establishment.
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
The quantity of oxygen, expressed in ppm, utilized in the
biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory
procedures for five days at 20° C. The standard laboratory procedure
shall be that found in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for
the Examination of Water and Wastewater" published by the American
Public Health Association, Inc.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Bonneauville, Adams County, Pennsylvania,
a municipal corporation of the commonwealth, acting by and through
its Council or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized
representatives.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use in the operation of a business enterprise for the sale and distribution
of any product, commodity, article or service.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room, group of rooms, house trailer, building or other
enclosure connected, directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and
occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by
a family or any other group of persons living together or by a person
or persons living alone, excluding institutional dormitories.
EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Each room, group of rooms, building, house trailer, mobile
home, connected directly or indirectly to the sewer system and used
or intended for use, in whole or in part, for educational purposes,
including both public and private schools.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any property upon which there is erected a structure intended
for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings
or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial
wastes shall be or may be discharge.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system and used or intended for
use, in whole or in part, in the operation of a business enterprise
for manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling
any product, commodity or article or from which any process waste,
as distinct from sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
Any liquid wastes from processes, as distinct from sanitary
sewage.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any room, group of rooms, building or other enclosure connected,
directly or indirectly, to the sewer system, including institutional
dormitories, including an educational establishment, which do not
or does not constitute a commercial establishment, a dwelling unit
or an industrial establishment.
MULTIPLE UNIT
Any improved property in which shall be located more than
one billing unit.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole
or partial, of any improved property which shall be connected, directly
or indirectly, to the sewer system.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
corporation or other group or entity.
pH
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the concentration of hydrogen
ions, expressed in grams per liter of solution, indicating the degree
of acidity or alkalinity of a substance.
PPM
Parts per million, by weight.
SANITARY SEWAGE
Normal water-carried household and toilet wastes discharged
from any improved property.
SEWER
Any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system
and used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM
All facilities, as of any particular time, for collecting,
pumping, transporting, treating and disposing of sanitary sewage and/or
industrial wastes, to be acquired and to be constructed and to be
owned by the Authority and to be leased to the Borough for maintenance,
operation and use.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
As determined pursuant to the procedure set forth in the
latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and
Wastewater," published by the American Public Health Association,
Inc.
WATER SYSTEM
The facilities owned by the Authority and leased to the Borough
for operation and use in the supply of water to the public in the
Borough.
Sewer rentals or charges are imposed upon and
shall be collected from the owner of each improved property which
shall be connected with the sewer system, for use of the sewer system
and for services rendered in connection therewith, whether such use
shall be direct or indirect, which sewer rentals or charges shall
commence and shall be effective as of enactment hereof and shall be
payable in the amounts, at the times and in the manner as provided
in this article.
[Amended 12-15-1981A; 3-23-1993 by Res. No. 93-1]
A. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, sewer
rentals or charges for sanitary sewage and industrial wastes discharged
into the sewer system from any improved property or from any billing
unit located therein, excluding educational establishments, when the
volume of water usage shall be metered in connection with the water
system, shall be based upon volume of water usage, adjusted, if appropriate,
as provided in this article.
B. Except as otherwise provided in this article, sewer
rentals or charges for sanitary sewage and industrial wastes discharged
into the sewer system from any improved property or from any billing
unit located therein, excluding educational establishments, when the
volume of water usage shall not be metered in connection with the
water system, shall be based upon the following:
(1) Unless an election is made by the owner of an improved property governed by this Subsection
B, to have Subsection
B(2) of this subsection apply, the sewer rentals or charges for such improved property and all billing units located therein shall be based upon volume of flow of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes discharged into the sewer system measured in gallons in accordance with this article or rules, regulations or determinations made pursuant to provisions of this article, and shall be subject to the minimum and other monthly charges and additional charges, as provided in this article. In the event that this Subsection
B(1) shall apply, the owner of such improved property shall install, pay for and maintain a meter, approved by this Borough, for measuring volumes of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes discharged into the sewer system.
(2) The owner of an improved property governed by this Subsection
B may elect to have the provisions of this Subsection
B(2) apply, in lieu of the provisions of Subsection
B(1), in which case the sewer rentals or charges for such improved property and all billing units located therein shall be based upon the volume of flow of sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes discharged into the sewer system, measured by any other accurate means of measuring and determining such volume as shall be permitted, from time to time, by this Borough by regulation or individual determination, and as shall be approved by and be satisfactory to this Borough, subject to such conditions and requirements as shall be imposed by this Borough in connection therewith, from time to time, either by regulation or on an individual basis.
C. Sewer rentals or charges imposed by Subsections
A and
B shall be computed in accordance with the following metered rate schedule, subject, however, to:
[Amended 1-20-2015; 12-17-2019 by Res. No. 418-19; 12-20-2022 by Res. No. 33-22]
(1) The minimum sewer rentals or charges provided in this Subsection
C; and
(2) The provisions, if applicable of Subsection
H:
Monthly Water Volume Usage or Metered
Waste Discharged
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Monthly Rate
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First 5,000 gallons
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$67.59 per 5,000 gallons or fractional part
thereof
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All over 5,000 gallons
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$8.90 per 1,000 gallons or fractional part thereof
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(3) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the minimum sewer rentals
or charges shall be $67.59 per month.
D. The volume of water usage to be used in the computation of sewer rentals or charges under Subsection
A hereof shall include the aggregate monthly volume of water measured in connection with the water system, and, in addition, shall include the aggregate per monthly volume obtained from all other sources (wells, springs, streams, etc.), as determined:
(1) By meters installed and maintained by the Borough,
to the extent the Borough shall provide the same under provisions
of applicable ordinances and/or regulations;
(2) By meters installed and maintained by the owner of
the improved property as are required under provisions of applicable
ordinances and/or regulations, and as are approved by the Borough;
and/or
(3) By estimates or measurements which may be made by
the Borough, at the Borough's sole option, where necessary.
E. Exclusion of noncontaminated wastewaters.
(1) Exclusion from the sewer system of noncontaminated wastewaters by any commercial establishment, industrial establishment and/or institutional establishment may be required by the Borough or such exclusion may be optional with the owner of the applicable improved property if not required by the Borough. When such wastewaters are so excluded, and are not discharged into the sewer system, the sewer rentals or charges shall be based on total volume of water usage, less the volume of sewage included, in accordance with the metered rate schedule set forth in Subsection
C; subject, however:
(a)
To the same minimum sewer rentals or charges;
and
(b)
To the provisions, if applicable, of Subsection
H hereof.
(2) Noncontaminated wastewaters and waters used solely
for cooling purposes which shall be excluded from the sewer system
shall be determined:
(a)
From meters to be installed and to be maintained
by the owner of the applicable improved property, as required and
approved by the Borough; or
(b)
From estimates or measurements made by the Borough, at the Borough's sole option; provided, however, that the owner of the applicable improved property may elect to measure the volume of wastes actually discharged to the sewer system, as provided in Subsection
G.
F. Sewer rentals or charges for sanitary sewage discharged into the sewer system from any improved property constituting an educational establishment shall be on a metered rate basis, based on the metered rate schedule set forth in Subsection
C hereof, calculated as follows:
The Borough, at the beginning of each fiscal year, shall estimate the annual volume of water to be used by each educational establishment during such fiscal year, and such educational establishment shall make monthly payments for sanitary sewage service, based on such estimate, for the first 11 months of each fiscal year, with a final adjustment being made in the 12th month of each fiscal year, based on actual metered water usage for such fiscal year and subject however to the minimum monthly charge set forth in Subsection C.
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G. The Borough may require the owner of a commercial establishment, an industrial establishment or an institutional establishment, or such owner may elect, to install, to pay for and maintain a meter approved by the Borough for measuring monthly volumes of wastes discharged into the sewer system, in which case the sewer rentals or charges shall be based on the actual metered monthly volume of wastes discharged into the sewer system in accordance with the rate schedule set forth in Subsection
C; subject, however:
(1) To the same minimum sewer rentals or charges; and
(2) To the provisions, if applicable, of Subsection
H hereof.
H. Strength of waste surcharge.
(1) The owner of any industrial establishment which shall discharge sanitary sewage and industrial wastes to the sewer system having an average five-day BOD greater than 200 ppm and a suspended solids content greater than 250 ppm, shall pay a strength of waste surcharge, in addition to applicable volume charges, equal to 0.05% for each ppm by which the suspended solids exceed 250 ppm. Surcharges shall be applicable to all billings for sewer rentals or charges computed in accordance with provisions of Subsections
A through
G, as applicable. The strength of sanitary sewage and industrial wastes to be used for establishing the amount of surcharge shall be determined at least once annually either:
(a)
By suitable sampling and analysis of such wastes
for a consecutive three-day period during a time of normal plant operation;
or
(b)
From estimates made by the Borough; or
(c)
From known relationships of products produced
to strengths of such wastes for those industries where such factors
have been established. In establishing such waste strengths for surcharge
purposes by analysis, analyses shall be made in accordance with procedures
outlined in the latest edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination
of Water and Wastewater" published by the American Public Health Association,
Inc.
(2) The owner of any industrial establishment discharging
sanitary sewage and industrial wastes to the sewer system shall furnish
to the Borough, upon written request, all information deemed essential
by the Borough for the determination of applicable sewer rental surcharges
for excess strength wastes. The costs of obtaining such information
shall be borne by such owner of such industrial establishment.
I. In the event that the owner of any improved property shall discharge sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes to the sewer system that originate in more than one dwelling unit, commercial establishment, industrial establishment and/or institutional establishment located upon such improved property, the appropriate sewer rentals or charges shall be computed, for each billing unit, as set forth in this §
184-22. Separate sewer rentals or charges so computed for each billing unit shall be consolidated into a single total amount for the purpose of determining the aggregate monthly sewer rentals or charges to such owner of such improved property.
J. Where more than one billing unit is served water from the water system and from a common water meter, the applicable sewer rentals or charges under Subsection
A shall be determined for each billing unit as provided in this article, after dividing the total monthly water volume by the number of billing units being served from the common water meter and thereafter computing separate sewer rentals or charges for each such billing unit as provided in this section.
K. If the owner of any improved property shall fail to
provide the Borough with any and all information required to compute
the sewer rentals or charges applicable to such improved property,
the Borough reasonably may estimate appropriate sewer rentals or charges
for such improved property and such estimated sewer rentals or charges
shall be the actual sewer rentals or charges payable until required
information is filed with the Borough; provided, however, that no
rebates will be paid by the Borough if the information subsequently
filed would support lower indicated sewer rentals or charges than
those estimated by the Borough.
L. Additional sewer rentals or charges or modifications
of sewer rentals or charges may be established or may be made by the
Borough, from time to time, as shall be deemed necessary or desirable
by the Borough.
M. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed
as prohibiting special agreements between the Borough and the owner
of any improved property constituting a commercial establishment,
an industrial establishment or an institutional establishment when
conditions and circumstances making such special agreements advisable
and/or necessary, in the opinion of the Borough, are present.
Sewer rentals or charges imposed by this article
shall be a lien upon the improved property connected to and served
by the sewer system and any such sewer rentals or charges which are
not paid within 30 days after each monthly billing date, at the discretion
of this Borough, shall be filed as a lien against the improved property
so connected to and served by the sewer system, which lien shall be
filed in the appropriate office of the County of Adams, Pennsylvania,
as provided by law, and shall be collected in the manner provided
by law for the filing and collecting of municipal claims.