[Ord. No. 651 Art I, 8-4-1983]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conductive to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience of the City to collect charges from all users who contribute wastewater to the City's collection system. The proceeds of such charges so derived will be used for the purpose of operating and maintaining the public wastewater collection system.
[Ord. No. 651 Art. II §§1—11, 8-4-1983]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting Biochemical Oxygen Demand)
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER FROM GRINDER PUMPS
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than three hundred (300) MG/L and a suspended solids concentration of not more than three hundred (300) MG/L.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
REPLACEMENT
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "Operation and Maintenance" includes replacement.
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Any contributor to the City's Collection System whose lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
SHALL
Is mandatory; MAY — Is permissive.
SS (denoting Suspended Solids)
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost, and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined water and sanitary sewer systems.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
USER CHARGE
That portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater collection system.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by the City of Lake Tapawingo or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City of Lake Tapawingo.
[Ord. No. 651 Art. III §§1—3, 8-4-1983; Ord. No. 651.1 Art. III §2, 8-22-1985]
A. 
The User Charge System shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement which the City may by ordinance designate to be paid by the user charge system. That portion of the total user charge which is designated for operation and maintenance including replacement of the treatment works shall be established by this Chapter.
B. 
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes as established in Section 715.040, shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund and will be kept in two (2) primary accounts as follows:
1. 
An account designated for the specific purposes of defraying operation and maintenance costs (excluding replacement) of the treatment works (Operation and Maintenance Account).
2. 
An account designated for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account). Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made at least annually, from the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount of four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) annually.
C. 
Fiscal year-end balances in the Operation and Maintenance Account and the Replacement Account shall be carried over to the same accounts in the subsequent fiscal year, and shall be used for no other purposes other than those designated for these accounts. Monies which have been transferred from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund shall be returned to their respective accounts upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates for operation, maintenance and replacement. The user charge rates(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. 651 Art. IV §§1—6, 8-4-1983; Ord. No. 651.4 Art. IV §3, 10-12-1988; Ord. No. 651.5 Art. IV §2, 12-7-1989; Ord. No. 995, 6-6-2019]
A. 
Each user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on his/her use of the treatment works as determined by water meter(s) acceptable to the City.
B. 
For those contributors who contribute wastewater, the strength of which is greater than normal domestic sewage, a surcharge in addition to the normal user charge will be collected. The surcharge for operation and maintenance will be determined from the BOD, SS, and other pollutants determined by testing. (Reference is made to Appendix A of this Chapter, on file in the City offices.)
C. 
Any user which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase in the cost of managing the City's sewer system, or any user which discharges any substance which singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable increases in the cost of operation, maintenance or replacement of the sewer system shall pay for such increased costs. The charge to each such user shall be as determined by the responsible operating personnel and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
[Ord. No. 651 Art. V §§1—2, 8-4-1983; Ord. No. 900 §6, 8-18-2010]
A. 
All users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular period shall be made thirty (30) days after the end of that period. Payments are due when the billings are made. Any payment not received within thirty (30) days after the billing is made shall be delinquent.
B. 
A late payment penalty of ten percent (10%) of the user charge bill will be added to each delinquent bill for each thirty (30) days of delinquency. When any bill is thirty (30) days in default, rendition of water and/or sewer service to such premises shall be discontinued until such bill is paid following due notice and an opportunity for a hearing.