[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
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. The rates and
charges for City sewer service shall be established by the Board of
Aldermen, based on an annual performance of a Sewer Rate Analysis,
Appendix A of this Chapter, which is on file in the City offices.
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on their
use of treatment works as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
B.
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.
C.
The
minimum charge per month shall be nine dollars twenty-five cents ($9.25).
In addition, each contributor shall pay a user charge for operation
and maintenance including replacement, in the amount of eighty-four
cents ($0.84) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water (or wastewater)
used, as determined in the preceding Section.
[Ord. No. 1433, 4-1-2019; Ord.
No. 1699, 6-5-2023]
D.
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 Board of Aldermen.
E.
The
user charge rates established in this Section apply to all users of
the City's treatment works regardless of the user's location.
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
A.
For
residential contributors, monthly user charges will be based on average
monthly water usage during the month of January, February and March.
If a residential contributor has not established a January, February
and March average, or if the residential contributor is supplied with
water by an agency other than the City of Concordia, their monthly
bill shall be the median charge of all other residential contributors.
B.
For
industrial and commercial contributors, user charges shall be based
on water used during the current month. If a commercial or industrial
contributor is supplied with water by an agency other than the City
of Concordia, has a consumptive use of water or in some other manner
uses water which is not returned to the wastewater collection system,
the user/contributor shall install and maintain, at the contributor's
expense, a metering system as required by the Water/Wastewater Superintendent.
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
A.
The
City shall review the user charge system 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.
B.
The
City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with
a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation and maintenance
including replacement of the treatment works.
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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 procedures in five (5)
days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred fifty (250) milligrams per liter and a suspended solids
concentration of not more than three hundred (300) milligrams per
liter.
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 interceptor sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection
systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and
their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, 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 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 storm water and sanitary sewer
systems.
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
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 treatment works.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by the City of Concordia or furnished and/or installed by
a user and approved by the City of Concordia.
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
A.
The
Missouri State Sewer Connection fee shall be paid by the City on an
annual basis, in July. Collection of these fees shall be calculated
in the following manner:
1.
Annual Fee/12=Monthly Charge.
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This monthly charge shall appear on the consumer's water bill
as the "MC" charge.
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B.
Five
percent (5%) of the fee revenue collected shall be retained by the
City as reimbursement of billing and collection expenses.
C.
Fee
collected from each residential customer shall be eighty cents ($.80)
annually based on current year number of connections.
D.
For
non-residential customers, fees shall be paid per water service connections
according to size excluding taps for fire suppression and irrigation
systems as follows:
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
All users shall be billed monthly on their water usage bills
for sewer usage furnished by the City.
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
Amounts due to the City for usage shall be paid for on the tenth
(10th) day of the month following the month in which the sewer service
is provided to such consumers payable at the City Hall at Concordia,
Missouri. If such sewer/water accounts are not paid on or before the
tenth (10th) of the month in which the same are due and payable, such
consumers shall be liable for and pay, in addition, a penalty of ten
percent (10%) of the amount of the water/sewer bill.
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
Should a consumer fail or refuse to pay his/her water/sewer
bill when the same is due and payable, such consumer shall be subject
to having the water/sewer service shut off. Before the City shall
be required to restore such service, such consumer shall pay his/her
indebtedness to the City for water/sewer furnished and not paid for
and, in addition, shall pay a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00)
for having such service restored.
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
If the sewer service to the premises is in the name of an occupant who is not the owner, and the bill and other charges due remain unpaid for a period of two (2) weeks after disconnection, then the City shall take the occupant's utility deposit and may file an action against the occupant to collect any charges due after taking the deposit. Furthermore, the occupant may not establish an account for water service at another premise until the bill and other charges are paid. Service to the premises may be reconnected in the name of the owner, or in the name of another occupant upon payment of the appropriate utility deposit as provided for in Section 705.020 and as set out in Table A of Chapter 150 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 979 §§1 —
2, 4-2-2012]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay
costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement and
cost associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the treatment works 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 the operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in Section 710.870 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.
The Operation and Maintenance Account shall be an account designated
for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance costs
(excluding replacement) of the treatment works. Deposits in the Operation
and Maintenance Account shall be made monthly from the operation and
maintenance revenue in the amount of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00)
annually.
2.
The Replacement Account shall be an account designated for the specific
purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the
treatment works. Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made
monthly from the replacement revenue in the amount of six thousand
two hundred twenty-five dollars ($6,225.00) 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
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 rate(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.
