[R.O. 2011 §710.010; Ord. No. 485 Art. I, 7-3-1979]
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.
[R.O. 2011 §710.020; Ord. No. 485 Art. II §§1 — 11, 7-3-1979]
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 Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l ).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
200 mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than 240
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 or real estate, building, living unit or trailer 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; and 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 Cabool or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Cabool.
[R.O. 2011 §710.030; Ord. No. 485 Art. III §§1 — 3, 7-3-1979]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay
costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement and
costs 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 operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in Section 710.040, 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.
An account designated for the specific purpose of defraying operation
and maintenance costs excluding replacement of the treatment works;
Operation and Maintenance Account.
2.
An account designated for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement
needs over the useful life of the treatment works: Replacement Account.
Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made annually from the
operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount of three
thousand two hundred dollars ($3,200.00) 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 rates 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.
[R.O. 2011 §710.040; Ord. No. 629 §§1 — 3, 4-6-1992; Ord. No. 804, 6-7-2004]
A.
Effective on the March 1, 2013 utility bills, the following user
charge rates are hereby established for all sewer system users in
the City of Cabool, Missouri, based upon water used:
[Ord. No. 002-2013 §§3 — 4, 2-18-2013]
B.
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
or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable increases
in the cost of operation, maintenance or replacement of the treatment
works, or any user which contributes effluent having a BOD greater
than normal domestic strength wastewater, shall pay for such increased
costs. The charge to each user will be as determined by the responsible
plant operating personnel and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
C.
The
user charge rates established in this Chapter apply to all users,
regardless of their location in the City's treatment works.
D.
Short-Term Service. A landlord, who owns at least two (2) rental
properties and has a regular deposit up for one of these, will be
charged the actual wastewater usage. This minimum monthly charge would
be in effect for a period often (10) days. If the time were more than
ten (10) days, the minimum monthly charge, at the base rate of the
first two thousand (2,000) gallons, would be applicable.
[Ord. No. 011-2016 § 3
— 4, 11-21-2016]
[R.O. 2011 §710.050; Ord. No. 563 §2, 7-21-1986]
Each user of the wastewater system shall be billed the first
(1st) day of the month for use of wastewater for the month immediately
preceding said first day of the month, and a penalty of ten percent
(10%) of the amount of the bill will be due and payable if said bill
is not paid on or before the tenth (10th) day of the month following
billing on the first (1st) day of said month.
[R.O. 2011 §710.060; Ord. No. 485 Art. VI §1, 7-3-1979; Ord. No. 563 §3, 7-21-1986]
The City will review the user charge system every year 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. Any excess revenues collected from a
class of users shall be credited to that class the next year and its
rates will be adjusted accordingly.
