[Code 1975, § 19-81]
(a)
The City Engineer may forthwith investigate the areas within the
existing sewer system which may be changed, altered or repaired to
remove infiltration and inflow, and determine both the nature and
extent of such repairs, the specific amounts of gallons per day removed
for any particular repair project, and the associated cost per gallon
per day of any such repair. He will, in addition, determine an average
cost per gallon per day of removal for all projects in such a fashion
that the average cost may be adjusted from time to time to reflect
changing conditions. The determinations by the City Engineer will
be used to create a fee to be charged to applicants of the removal
of infiltration and inflow in an amount equal to a specific percentage
of the amount of new flow into the system which the applicant is proposing
to create. That percentage shall conform to any requirements imposed
on the City by state or federal agencies.
[Amended 2-4-2020 by Ord. No. 2020.6]
(b)
The City Engineer shall report the results of his study under this
section to the City Council. The City Council may then, consistent
with the terms of federal and state approvals, implement and adopt
a mandatory inflow and infiltration removal requirement. Under the
terms of the requirement, a sewer use permit may only be obtained
to remove an adequate amount of inflow and infiltration from the system
or if the sewer user has paid the appropriate fee in lieu of completing
a project.
(c)
At the time of the submittal of the results of his study under this
section, the City Engineer shall present to the City Council a proposed
amendment to this article setting out the method of administration
of the removal requirement, and demonstrating compliance with any
provisions of law restricting the creation of such a program, including
the creation of any dedicated fund into which fees will be placed.
[Code 1975, § 19-82; Ord. of 9-6-1994; Ord. No. 2001.1, 1-16-2001]
(a)
Pending completion of the study, report and presentation set forth in Section 70-171, and subject to the availability of capacity at the treatment plant and compliance with all other provisions of this article, a sewer use permit may be given after an applicant complies with this section.
(b)
An applicant for a sewer use permit shall, in addition to other information required by this article, pay the fee set out in Subsection (c) of this section. The City Engineer may require such other information as he deems necessary.
[Amended 2-4-2020 by Ord. No. 2020.6]
(c)
Except as indicated in Subsection (d) of this section, applicants shall pay a fee equal to five times $2.72 times the number of gallons of proposed new flow, as that flow is finally determined by the City Engineer under Section 70-141(b). Fees received under this subsection shall be segregated from the projects designed to remove inflow and infiltration from the sewer system as finally determined after the completion of the study, report and presentation set forth in Section 70-171. Fees, or any portion of those fees, actually paid, which exceed the actual cost of removal, or which are not expended according to the removal schedule to be finally adopted, shall not be refunded. These unexpended fees shall be deposited in a designated enterprise account segregated from the City's general revenues and be earmarked to help defray the cost of future more costly inflow and infiltration removal projects.
(d)
Persons who had received a sewer use permit prior to September 18, 1990, projects appearing in Appendix B of this section which is on file in the City Clerk's office and lots of record as of September 18, 1990, which were within 200 feet of the existing sewer system at the time, are subject to a fee equal to one times $2.72 times the number of gallons of proposed new flow, as that flow is finally determined by the City Engineering Department under Section 70-141.
[Amended 2-4-2020 by Ord. No. 2020.6]
(e)
An applicant for a sewer use permit where said permit is proposed to be issued and includes flows to the pump station located adjacent to 528 Alfred Road shall pay an impact fee for said pump station equal to $3.35 times the number of gallons of proposed new flow as that flow is finally determined by the City Engineer under Section 70-141(b). Fees collected under this provision shall be deposited in a designated account segregated from the City's general revenues and reserved for inflow and infiltration removal projects. The City reserves the right to verify the estimate of flow for up to five years and to increase the impact fee as necessary.
(f)
An
applicant for a sewer use permit where said permit is proposed to
be issued and includes flows to a pump station located in an area
that will serve the flows to be produced from a new or upgraded project
shall pay an impact fee for said pump station equal to a prorated
share of the costs of any upgrades needed for the pump station and/or
associated conveyance system to receive and convey the flows to be
produced. The cost of the prorated share will be the ratio of the
existing flows to the new flows times the cost of needed upgrades
as finally determined by the City Engineer. Fees collected under this
provision shall be deposited in a designated account segregated from
the City’s general revenues and reserved for the needed upgrades
to the affected pump stations. The City reserves the right to verify
the estimate of flow for up to five years and to increase the impact
fee as necessary.
[Added 2-4-2020 by Ord. No. 2020.6]
