The purpose of this article shall be to generate revenue to
pay all costs for operation and maintenance for the entire facility
of Stockport Sewer District No. 1, to pay the Town of Greenport to
transmit and treat the wastewater of Stockport Sewer District No.
1 and to pay for debt service and capital expenditures (including
replacement modification and upgrades).
Sewer charges shall be used for deriving revenues for financing
and maintaining sewage collection and treatment facilities. The funds
derived from these charges shall be used for all municipal expenses
associated with constructing, improving or maintaining a sewerage
system, including engineering, planning, construction, reconstruction
of sewers, wastewater treatment works and all necessary appurtenances
thereto, including pumping stations, extensions, enlargement, replacement
or additions to the sanitary sewer systems or the preliminary or other
studies and surveys relative thereto and for the acquisition of land
or rights-of-way for any of the capital improvements.
A.
Capital charge. Each owner of real property located within the limits of Stockport Sewer District No. 1 shall pay a sewer capital charge. The sewer capital charge will be levied and collected annually. The amount levied and collected will be the amount the sewer district is obligated to pay for principal and interest on its outstanding sewer serial bonds and/or BANs, plus the amount the sewer district is obligated to pay the Town of Greenport for capital charges pursuant to the intermunicipal agreement. The amount levied shall be distributed to all owners of real property located within the limits of the sewer district in proportion to the relative benefits derived therefrom. This distribution shall be derived by apportioning the total sewer capital costs among all owners of real property in proportion to the number of units of all real property located within Sewer District No. 1. The classification of units set forth in § 95-5 shall be the basis of this distribution.
B.
Sewer user charge.
(1)
A sewer user charge shall be levied on owners of properties located
within the improvement boundaries who contribute sewage to the public
sewers.
(2)
The following items will be funded by the sewer user charge:
(3)
The Town Board of the Town of Stockport shall review the user charges
periodically and revise them to reflect the actual sewerage works,
operation and maintenance cost by resolution of the Town Board.
A.
The Stockport Town Board shall consider and include such factors
as strength (BOD and SS), volume and delivery flow rate characteristics
as the basis for each user class contribution to ensure a proportional
distribution of capital charges to each user class. Upon such consideration,
the Stockport Town Board shall establish a system of classification
of capital charge units and shall assign the number of units to each
class on the following basis:
(1)
Users or nonusers within the average residential user (i.e., single-family
residence) class shall be assigned one unit of capital charge.
(2)
One unit of capital charge shall be assigned to users and nonusers
within other classes for each quantity of use equivalent to that of
the average residential user.
B.
The capital charge to be paid shall be determined from the following
schedule:
|
Classification
|
Units of Use
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Single-family residence
|
1
| |
|
Multiple residence and boardinghouse
|
1 for each apartment
| |
|
Trailer park
|
1 for each
| |
|
School
|
1 for each 5 pupils and staff
| |
|
Restaurant or tavern
|
1 per 10 seats
| |
|
General commercial use
|
1 for each 5 employees or part thereof
| |
|
Industrial use
|
1, plus 1 for each 5 employees or part thereof
| |
|
Religious or fraternal use
|
1 for the rectory; 1/2 for each major building
| |
|
Laundromat
|
1 per washing machine
| |
|
Car wash
|
1 per stall
| |
|
Professional offices
|
1 with up to 5 employees, excess calculated at 1 per 5 employees
| |
|
Vacant building lot
|
1/2
| |
|
Vacant land
|
1/2 per 10 acres
|
The Town Board shall review the total annual cost of operation
and maintenance, as well as each user class's wastewater contribution
percentage, not less often than every two years and will revise the
system as necessary to assure equity of the service charge system
established herein and to assure that sufficient funds are obtained
to adequately operate and maintain the wastewater treatment works.
If it is determined that excess revenues have been collected from
a class of users, the excess revenues from that class of users shall
be applied to the costs of operation and maintenance attributable
to that class for the next year, and the number of units of use assigned
to that class of users shall be adjusted accordingly. All adjustments
shall be made by resolution of the Town Board.
A.
Basis for capital charges. Sewer use charges shall be billed quarterly
at the same time as the Stockport Water District bills for water usage
charges. Capital costs charges shall be included in the tax statement,
which shall be mailed yearly to each individual residing within Sewer
District No. 1 by the Town for county charges and general Town charges.
B.
Basis for sewer user charges; sewer rent schedule. Sewer user charges
shall be levied as follows:
(1)
Each sewer user shall be charged with a minimum sewer usage fee for
the use of the Stockport Sewer System for the amount of sewer as set
by resolution by the Town Board per billable quarter.
(2)
Each sewer user shall be charged an additional 80% of the amount
of water from the Stockport Water District or other water supply used
by the Stockport Sewer System based on the quarterly water meter reading
for the amount set by resolution by the Town Board per quarter.
(3)
The rates charged to each sewer user shall be such rates as the Town
Board may from time to time establish by resolution.
C.
Sewer rate schedule:
|
Town of Stockport — Sewer District No. 1
Quarterly Sewer Rate Schedule
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Sewer Usage Per Meter
(gallons/quarter)
|
In-District Sewer Rate1, 3
| |
|
To be determined by resolution of the Town Board
|
To be determined by resolution of the Town Board
| |
|
To be determined by resolution of the Town Board
|
To be determined by resolution of the Town Board
| |
|
Nonmetered services
|
$400 per quarter, per business or dwelling unit
Nonrefundable
| |
|
Rates Below for Nonpublic Water System User Only
$10 per quarter for 3/4" meter and $15 per quarter for 1" meter2
1 1/2" meter: $20
2" meter: $25
Above 3" - Rental will be set at time of install per cost
| ||
|
NOTES:
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
1
|
Rates subject to change by resolution of the Town Board based
on Town's annual budget.
| |
|
2
|
Minimum operation and maintenance charge to be determined by
resolution of the Town Board per quarter, regardless of the amount
of sewer used. This applies to all properties that have been issued
a Town water meter, whether installed or not installed.
| |
|
3
| ||
D.
Sewer fee schedule. The Town reserves the right to assess any additional
fees not outlined below on a case-by-case basis to ensure that the
Town regulations are met.
A.
In the event of a defective water meter, then the sewer user charge
shall be computed based on the average of its last two quarterly billings
for sewer user charges during which the meter was operating properly.
B.
In the event that other than a residential class user enters and
uses the improvement, the method computing the sewer user charges
for such a user would be based on factors such as strength, volume
and delivery flow rate characteristics, as well as the amount of water
from the Stockport Water District used by such user as set forth above.
C.
As of January 1, 2009, any property located within Sewer District
No. 1 that has its own water supply or is served by an unmetered independent
water company shall install a Town-issued conventional meter to be
installed at the property.
D.
As of January 1, 2009, all commercial or nonresident users shall
install a Town-issued conventional meter on their properties. Where
a meter in excess of two inches is required at the property, the property
owner shall reimburse the Town for such cost above two inches as invoiced
by the Town and billed to the property owner.
E.
The bills for sewer user charges shall become due and payable to
Sewer District No. 1, and such payment shall be made to the Town of
Stockport Town Clerk at the Town Clerk's Office on a quarterly
basis. If payment is not received by the Town of Stockport Town Clerk
within 30 days of the date of the bill for sewer user charges, a penalty
of 1% per month of the amount of such bill shall be added thereto
and shall become due and payable to Sewer District No. 1 in the manner
proscribed in this section.
F.
The bills for capital charges shall become due and payable to Sewer
District No. 1, and such payment shall be made to the Town of Stockport
Town Clerk at the Town Clerk's Office on a yearly basis. If payment
is not received by the Town of Stockport Town Clerk within 30 days
of the date of the bill for capital charges, a penalty of 1% per month
of the amount of such bill shall be added thereto and shall become
due and payable to Sewer District No. 1 in the manner proscribed in
this section.
H.
Sewer user charges, capital charges, and/or fees and penalties and
interest thereon which are delinquent for more than 30 days of the
date of the bill by which they were assessed, shall be added to the
tax bill of the property owner serviced by the public sewer system
of the Town of Stockport or which is located within the improvement
boundaries and shall become a lien on the property. Such lien shall
be prior to and superior to any other lien or claim except a lien
of an existing tax assessment or other lawful Town charge.
Any sums that shall remain unpaid in accordance with any provision of these regulations shall be certified by the Stockport Town Clerk as the amount due and payable to the Town Board, and shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and at the same time as provided for the collection and enforcement of Town taxes, and it shall be the duty of the Town Clerk to charge and collect interest thereon at the same rate specified for the collection of Town taxes, notwithstanding the 1% penalty assessed by the Town in accordance with § 95-8E or any other provision of these regulations.
All owners of real property located within the limits of Sewer
District No. 1, including tax-exempt properties, must pay sewer capital
charges. All users of the facilities of Sewer District No. 1, including
tax-exempt properties, must pay sewer user charges.
A.
The discharge of any waters containing toxic or poisonous solids,
liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction
with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any municipal system
or to injure or interfere with any sewage treatment process, that
constitute a hazard in or have an adverse affect on the waters receiving
any discharge from the treatment works is hereby prohibited.
B.
Each user who discharges any toxic pollutant which causes an increase
in the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge of the wastewater
treatment works shall pay for such increased costs.
This system of service charges shall take precedence over any
terms or conditions of agreements or contracts between the grantee
and users (including industrial users, special districts, other municipalities
or state and federal agencies or installations) which are inconsistent
with § 204(b)(1)(a) of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251
et seq., as amended) or the 40 CFR Part 35 rules and regulations.
