[Ord. No. 773 Art. I, 9-22-2003]
A.
It is
determined and declared to be necessary and conducive 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 treatment works. The proceeds of such charges so derived will
be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining and retiring the
debt for such public wastewater treatment works.
B.
This
Chapter shall have precedence over any terms or conditions of agreements
or contracts between the City and users (including industrial users,
special districts or other municipalities) which are inconsistent
with the requirements of the Clean Water Act.
[Ord. No. 773 Art. II §§1
— 11, 9-22-2003]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Celcius (20°C) expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred ninety (290) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than two hundred ninety (290) mg/l.
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.
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.
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot,
parcel of real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
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.
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;
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 storm water and sanitary sewer
systems.
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
The total wastewater service charge which is levied for all
costs of the treatment works.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by the City or furnished and/or installed by a user and
approved by the City.
[Ord. No. 773 Art. III §§1
— 6, 9-22-2003]
A.
The purpose
of this Chapter is to generate adequate annual revenues to pay costs
of annual operation and maintenance, including replacement, and costs
associated with debt retirement of sewer revenue bonds which the City
may, by ordinance, designate to be paid by the user charge system.
The accounts described in this Section may be modified and maintained
in accordance with the bond ordinance as long as the intent of this
user charge system Chapter is met.
C.
All revenue
collected as a result of this Chapter shall be deposited in the Sewer
Revenue Fund. The current expenses of the sewer system shall be paid
from month to month as a first (1st) charge against the Sewer Revenue
Fund as the expenses become due. Current expenses shall include all
reasonable and necessary costs of operating, repairing, maintaining
and insuring the sewer system, but shall exclude payments into the
Sinking Fund, Bond Reserve Fund and Replacement Fund. If a shortage
occurs in the Sewer Revenue Fund, the user charges shall be increased
to provide the revenue needed. An estimate of the annual expenses
associated with the sewer system is included in Appendix "A", a copy
of which is on file in the City offices. These expenses are estimates
and may change in the future.
D.
Principal
and interest on the sewer revenue bond shall be paid from the Sinking
Fund. So long as any bonds thereof are outstanding, an amount equal
to one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual debt service, including principal
and interest, shall be deposited in the Sinking Fund monthly.
E.
As long
as any of the principal or interest of the sewer revenue bonds remain
unpaid, an amount as stipulated by the bond ordinance shall be deposited
each month into the Bond Reserve Fund until the maximum amount noted
in the bond ordinance is accumulated. Such an amount shall be maintained
in the Bond Reserve Fund until all principal and interest has been
paid.
F.
Each
month the sum of nine hundred dollars ($900.00) shall be paid and
credited to the Replacement Fund.
[Ord. No. 773 Art. IV §§1
— 7, 9-22-2003; Ord. No. 2007-13 §5, 10-22-2007]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on his
use of the treatment works as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
B.
For residential
contributors, monthly user charges will be based on actual monthly
water usage.
C.
For industrial
and commercial contributors, user charges shall be based on water
used during the current month. If a commercial or industrial contributor
has a consumptive use of water, or in some other manner uses water
which is not returned to the wastewater collection system, the user
charge for that contributor may be based on a wastewater meter(s)
or separate water meter(s) installed and maintained at the contributor's
expense and in a manner acceptable to the City.
E.
Commercial
or industrial users shall be subject to an excessive strength charge
in addition to the basic sewer service charge when the BOD or SS concentrations
of a discharge exceeds two hundred ninety (290) milligrams per liter
(mg/l) respectively. All analyses shall be performed on composite
samples collected over a twenty-four (24) hour period.
The excessive strength charge shall be assessed as follows:
$0.052 for each pound of excess BOD.
$0.052 for each pound of excess SS.
F.
Any user
which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase in the
cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the City's treatment
works, 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 treatment
works, shall pay for such increased costs. The charge to each such
user shall be as determined by the responsible plant operating personnel
and approved by the City.
G.
The user
charge rates established in this Section apply to all users, regardless
of their location, of the City's treatment works.
[Ord. No. 773 Art. V §§1
— 2, 9-22-2003; Ord. No. 2007-13 §6, 10-22-2007]
A.
All users
shall be billed monthly. Under normal circumstances all bills shall
be mailed by the last working day of the month and bear a due date
of the tenth (10th) of the month following the month in which they
were mailed.
[Ord. No. 773 Art. VI §§1
— 2, 9-22-2003]
A.
The City
will review the user charge system on an annual basis and revise user
charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system generates adequate
revenues to pay all costs and that the system continues to provide
for the proportional distribution of costs among users and user classes.
B.
The City
will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with a regular
bill, of the rate being charged.
