[Ord. No. 2365 §2, 12-16-2003]
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 established
herein shall be based on the methodology on file with the City Clerk.
[Ord. No. 2365 §2, 12-16-2003]
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 Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
three hundred milligrams per liter (300 mg/l), a suspended solids
concentration of not more than three hundred fifty milligrams per
liter (350 mg/l) and an oil and grease concentration of not more than
one hundred milligrams per liter (100 mg/l).
[Ord. No. 3047, 11-21-2017]
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. All other users shall be considered "non-residential contributors".
Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
The 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 clean 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 stormwater and sanitary sewer systems.
The estimated period during which the 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 Pacific or furnished and/or installed by
a user and approved by the City of Pacific.
[Ord. No. 2365 §2, 12-16-2003]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay
the 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 Article.
B.
That
portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for
the operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes as established
in this Article, 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 (at least annually,
specify) from the operation and maintenance revenue in the amount
five hundred forty-five thousand six hundred sixty-nine dollars ($545,669.00)
annually.
2.
The Replacement Account shall be an account designated for the purpose
of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the treatment
works. Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made monthly (at
least annually, specify) from the replacement revenue in the amount
of one hundred eighty-two thousand eight hundred forty-one dollars
($182,841.00) 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
each 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.
[Ord. No. 2365 §2, 12-16-2003; Ord. No. 2498 §3, 3-7-2006; Ord.
No. 2820 §1, 3-6-2012]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on their
use of the treatment works as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City and as follows:
1.
Residential contributor rate. For residential contributors,
monthly user rate (wastewater flow in the winter quarter equals one
hundred percent (100%) of metered water flow vs. consumptive use of
water in summer) will be calculated based upon average monthly water
usage during the months of January, February and March. (Water usage
for these months includes little use for such activities as lawn watering,
car washing and other seasonal consumptive uses.) Any residential
contributor provided service outside the City limits shall be charged
one and one-half (1½) times the City rate. If a residential
contributor has not established a January, February and March average
or does not take metered potable water from the City, their monthly
bill shall be the median charge of all other residential contributors.
2.
Non-residential contributors. For non-residential
contributors, user charges shall be based on water used during the
current month. If a non-residential 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 wastewater meter(s) or separate water meters) installed
and maintained at the contributor's expense and in a manner acceptable
to the City. Any non-residential contributor provided service outside
the City limits shall be charged one and one-half (1½) times
the City rate.
3.
Base user charge rates. The minimum charge per month
shall be twelve dollars fifty-seven cents ($12.57). In addition, each
contributor shall pay an additional user charge for operation and
maintenance including replacement of four dollars fourteen cents ($4.14)
per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water (or wastewater) as determined
in the preceding Section. Where a single sewer service account is
established to provide sewer service for more than one (1) residential
dwelling or non-residential user, the charge for sewer service shall
be calculated by multiplying twelve dollars fifty-seven cents ($12.57)
by the total number of residential dwellings or non-residential users
as the base minimum charge plus the incremental fee of four dollars
fourteen cents ($4.14) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water (or
wastewater) of the total water (or wastewater) used by all residential
dwellings or non-residential users served by the account and as determined
in the preceding Section.
[Ord. No. 3277, 7-20-2021]
4.
User surcharge. 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 user shall be as determined by the Commissioner
of Public Works and approved by the Board of Aldermen. Unless otherwise
determined, for contributors which contribute wastewater, the strength
of which is greater than normal domestic sewage, a surcharge in addition
to the normal user charge will be collected as follows:
[Ord. No. 3047, 11-21-2017]
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$0.434 per pound BOD
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$166,626.81 yr.
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$0.434 per pound SS
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$383,557.16 lbs. yr.
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$0.391 per pound O&G
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[Ord. No. 2365 §2, 12-16-2003]
A.
All
users shall be billed monthly, unless otherwise approved by the Board
of Aldermen. All bills for utility services furnished by the City
shall be due and payable prior to 5:00 P.M. on the fifth (5th) day
of the month following the billing.
B.
In
the event any consumer of utility services furnished by the City shall
fail to pay his bill therefor when the same is due, a ten percent
(10%) penalty shall be imposed. In the event bills for utility services
shall not be paid when the same become due, the City shall have the
right to disconnect and discontinue all utility services furnished
by the City to the consumer so in arrears.
[Ord. No. 2365 §2, 12-16-2003]
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. Changes to the rates and fund accounting amounts
established herein may be made by resolution or ordinance and adjusted
no more often than once per year.
B.
The
City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with
a regular bill, of the any change in the rate being charged for operation
and maintenance including replacement of the treatment works.
[Ord. No. 2365 §2, 12-16-2003; Ord. No. 2836 §1, 6-19-2012]
The Board of Aldermen and Commissioner of Public Works shall
have authority to adopt such additional regulations and interpretations
hereof as necessary to implement the purpose and effect of this Title
and the Board of Aldermen shall have the authority to waive or alter
requirements and costs for good cause shown consistent with applicable
law.
