[R.O. 2011 §710.270; Ord. No. 2995 Art. 1, 8-27-1981]
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 treatment works, and from all property owners required by Chapter 710 to install suitable toilet facilities and to connect such facilities directly with the proper City sewer in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 710. The proceeds of such charges so derived will be used for the purpose of operating and maintaining the public wastewater treatment works.
[R.O. 2011 §710.280; Ord. No. 2995 Art II. §§I — II, 8-27-1981]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Article 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 Centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per litter (mg/l).
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.
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 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 in a
proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation and replacement
of the wastewater treatment works.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Trenton or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Trenton.
[R.O. 2011 §710.290; Ord. No. 2995 Art. III §§1 — 2, 8-27-1981; Ord. No. 07-20 §1, 10-11-2007]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay
costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement associated
with the treatment works.
B.
All
user charges collected shall be deposited in the Sewerage System Revenue
Fund. On the first (1st) day of each month, money held in the Sewerage
System Revenue Fund shall be allocated as stipulated in Ordinance
No. 2853, Sections 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13.
An additional amount of eight thousand two hundred dollars ($8,200.00)
shall be deposited annually to the Depreciation and Replacement Account
for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful
life of the treatment works, subject to a minimum balance in said
account of eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000).
[R.O. 2011 §710.330; Ord. No. 2995 Art. VI §§1 — 2, 8-27-1981; Ord. No. 07-23 §1, 10-12-2007]
A.
The
City will review the user charge system at least annually and revise
user charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system generates
adequate revenues to pay the costs of operation and maintenance including
replacement and that the system continues to provide for the proportional
distribution of operation and maintenance including replacement costs
among users and user classes. The user charge calculations and methodology
will be available for review at the office of Trenton Municipal Utilities.
B.
The
City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with
a regular bill, of the user charge rate being charged.
[R.O. 2011 §710.340; Ord. No. 00-40 §1, 10-9-2000; Ord. No. 2015-33 §1, 4-13-2015]
A.
Application for sewer services shall be made at City Hall by the
owner or occupant of the property to be served. It is the customer's
responsibility to have a licensed plumber make the tap and lay the
sewer line to the premises. The sewer tap, sewer line and clean outs
shall be inspected for compliance by a designated representative of
the City of Trenton, and the inspector has the right to reject such
connections due to poor workmanship or inadequate materials. The City
of Trenton may prescribe a connection fee to be paid by such applicant
at the time of application.
B.
The user of each premises receiving sewer service shall be held responsible
for the proper use of the system. Plumbing facilities that are to
be connected to the sewerage system shall be installed in accordance
with the International Plumbing Code.
