[Ord. No. 671 Art. I, 10-2-2000]
A.Â
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.
B.Â
This
Chapter shall have precedence over any terms or conditions of agreements
or contracts between the City and users (including industrial users,
special districts, or other municipalities) which are inconsistent
with the requirements of the Clean Water Act.
[Ord. No. 671 Art. II, 10-2-2000]
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 Centigrade (20° C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred ninety (290) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than two hundred ninety (290) 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 is used for ultimate
disposal of residues resulting from such treatment; 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 a treatment works will
be operated.
The total wastewater service charge which is levied for all
costs of the treatment works.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City or furnished and/or installed by a user
and approved by the City.
[Ord. No. 671 Art. III, 10-2-2000]
A.Â
The
purpose of this Chapter is to generate adequate annual revenues to
pay costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement
and costs associated with debt retirement of sewer revenue bonds which
the City may by ordinance designate to be paid by the user charge
system. The accounts described in this Article may be modified and
maintained in accordance with the Bond Ordinance as long as the intent
of this user charge system ordinance is met.
B.Â
Four
(4) separate accounts shall be established by the City. The accounts
shall be referred to as (1) Sewer Revenue Fund, (2) Sinking Fund,
(3) Bond Reserve Fund and (4) Replacement Fund. All accounts shall
be kept in a bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
C.Â
All
revenue collected as a result of this Chapter shall be deposited in
the Sewer Revenue Fund. The current expenses of the sewer system shall
be paid from month to month as a first (1st) charge against the Sewer
Revenue Fund as the expenses become due. Current expenses shall include
all reasonable and necessary costs of operating, repairing, maintaining,
and insuring the sewer system, but shall exclude payments into the
Sinking Fund, Bond Reserve Fund and Replacement Fund. If a shortage
occurs in the Sewer Revenue Fund, the user charges shall be increased
to provide the revenue needed. An estimate of the annual expenses
associated with the sewer system is included in Appendix "A", which
is on file in the City offices. These expenses are estimates and may
change in the future.
D.Â
Principal
and interest on the sewer revenue bond shall be paid from the Sinking
Fund. So long as any bonds thereof are outstanding, an amount equal
to one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual debt service, including principal
and interest, shall be deposited in the Sinking Fund monthly.
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As
long as any of the principal or interest of the sewer revenue bonds
remain unpaid, an amount as stipulated by the Bond Ordinance shall
be deposited each month into the Bond Reserve Fund until the maximum
amount noted in the Bond Ordinance is accumulated. Such an amount
shall be maintained in the Bond Reserve Fund until all principal and
interest has been paid.
F.Â
Each
month the sum of five hundred twenty-five dollars ($525.00) shall
be paid and credited to the Replacement Fund.
[Ord. No. 671 Art. IV, 10-2-2000]
A.Â
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on his
use of the treatment works as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
B.Â
For
residential contributors, monthly user charges will be based on actual
monthly water usage.
C.Â
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.
D.Â
Each contributor shall pay a basic monthly user charge rate of five
dollars and seventy cents ($5.70) per one thousand (1,000) gallons
of water (or wastewater) as determined in the preceding Section with
a three thousand (3,000) gallon per month minimum. Refer to Appendix
"A" (which is on file in the City offices) for details on rate and
charge computations.
[Ord. No. 1022 §1, 5-18-2015; Ord.
No. 1259, 12-6-2021]
E.Â
Commercial
or industrial users shall be subject to an excessive strength charge
in addition to the basic sewer service charge when the BOD or SS concentrations
of a discharge exceeds two hundred ninety (290) milligrams per liter
(mg/l) respectively. All analyses shall be performed on composite
samples collected over a twenty-four (24) hour period.
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The excessive strength charge shall be assessed as follows:
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$0.06 for each pound of excess BOD
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$0.06 for each pound of excess SS
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F.Â
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 City.
G.Â
All non-residents who are presently receiving and wish to continue to receive water and sewer services, but have not heretofore signed contracts with the City for the supply of said services, shall be supplied with City water and/or sewer services upon signing a written contract with the City for the supply of said services. Each aforesaid contract shall be in substantially the same form and contain the same terms as the contracts authorized pursuant to Scott City Ordinance, which requires non-resident users to pay thirty dollars ($30.00) per month for water services and a flat fee of thirty dollars ($30.00) per month for sewer services, plus an additional charge based upon the usage to be calculated as set out in Chapter 715 of this Code. A copy of said contract for water services is marked "Exhibit A" and is on file in the City Clerk's office. A copy of said contract for sewer services is marked "Exhibit B" and is on file in the City Clerk's office.
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The
user charge rates established in this Section apply to all users,
regardless of their location, of the City's treatment works.
[Ord. No. 671 Art. V, 10-2-2000; Ord. No. 1259, 12-6-2021]
A.Â
All
users shall be billed monthly. Under normal circumstances all bills
shall be mailed the last working day of the month and bear a due date
of the fifteenth (15th) of the month following the month in which
they were mailed.
B.Â
Fifteen
(15) days after the date the bills are mailed, a fifteen percent (15%)
late payment shall be assessed on the outstanding balance of the user
charge. Any bill not paid on or before the date the late penalty is
assessed shall have its water and/or sewer service discontinued until
such bill is paid.
[Ord. No. 671 Art. VI, 10-2-2000]
A.Â
The
City will review the user charge system on an annual basis and revise
user charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system generates
adequate revenues to pay all costs and that the system continues to
provide for the proportional distribution of costs among users and
user classes.
B.Â
The
City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with
a regular bill, of the rate being charged.
