[CC 1992 §705.010; Ord. No. 315 Art. I, 11-17-1980; Ord. No. 552 Art. I, 10-5-1998]
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.
[CC 1992 §705.020; Ord. No. 315 Art. II, 11-17-1980; Ord. No. 552 Art. II, 10-5-1998]
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 procedures in five (5) days at twenty degrees Centigrade (20° C), expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
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.
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 treatment works 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 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.
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 treatment works.
WATER METER
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.
[CC 1992 §705.030; Ord. No. 315 Art. III, 11-17-1980; Ord. No. 552 Art. III, 10-5-1998]
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 700.110 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.
[CC 1992 §705.050; Ord. No. 315 Art. V, 11-17-1980; Ord. No. 552 Art. V, 10-5-1998]
A. 
All users shall be billed monthly on their water usage bills for sewer usage furnished by the City. Amounts due to the City for usage shall be paid for on the first (1st) 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.
B. 
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.
[CC 1992 §705.060; Ord. No. 315 Art. VI, 11-17-1980; Ord. No. 552 Art. VI, 10-5-1998]
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.