There is hereby imposed a one-time charge for any new connection,
as defined herein, to the Edgewater publicly owned treatment works
and the system for collection and transmission of sewage originating
in the Borough of Edgewater and those portions of the Boroughs of
Cliffside Park and Fort Lee served by said publicly owned treatment
works, to represent a fair payment toward the capital cost of said
facilities.
The preliminary connection charge for each such connection shall
be collected by the Construction Official on behalf of the Borough,
at the time of issuance of a construction permit, as follows:
A. The gallons
per unit for the type of facility involved, as shown on Table A attached to this article and made a part hereof, shall
be multiplied by the number of the applicable units shown on said
table, as certified by the applicant for the construction permit;
B. The product
thereof (being the estimated flow from the facility in gallons per
day) shall be divided by 200; and
C. The quotient
thereof [being the number of equivalent residential units (ERUs) or
portion thereof for the facility] shall be multiplied by the connection
charge then in effect for each ERU.
The preliminary connection charge shall be the final connection
charge, unless the owner of the property shall demonstrate to the
satisfaction of the Construction Official, or the Construction Official
shall determine, that the number of applicable units in the facility,
as built, shall differ from the number of said units originally certified
by the applicant for the purposes of the preliminary connection charge,
in which case the final connection charge shall be recomputed in accordance
with the revised number of units, and the excess of the final connection
charge over the preliminary connection charge shall be paid to the
Borough within 30 days of such determination, or the excess of the
preliminary connection charge over the final connection charge shall
be refunded by the Borough within 30 days or as soon thereafter as
may be practicable.
The connection charge per ERU, computed as set forth in this
article, shall be computed for each calendar year. Any connection
charges computed prior to the date of such annual redetermination
shall be recomputed thereafter, and the excess of the recomputed connection
charge over the previously computed connection charge shall be paid
to the Borough within 30 days of such determination, or the excess
of the previously computed connection charge over the recomputed connection
charge shall be refunded by the Borough within 30 days or as soon
thereafter as may be practicable.
The connection charge to be in effect for connections made
during the calendar year 1988, and for connections made and to be
made during the calendar year 1989, shall be set by the Borough by
resolutions to be adopted concurrently with this article. The connection charge for future years shall be set, annually,
by resolution.
For purposes of the charges imposed by and pursuant to this
chapter, "new connections to the sewage treatment system" shall be
deemed to mean and include all connections made to properties and
facilities which were not connected to said system on January 1, 1988,
and also all changes of use of existing properties which result, based
upon the application of the information contained in Table A, in an
increased flow from said facility; provided, however, that for such
a change of use, a connection charge, computed as hereinabove set
forth, shall be applied only to the extent of the estimated increased
flow from said facility.