[R.O. 2012 §720.010; Ord. No. 85-6-2 Art. I, 6-3-1985]
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. 2012 §720.020; Ord. No. 85-6-2 Art. II §§1 — 11, 6-3-1985]
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 (20°) C, expressed in milligrams per liter
(mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred forty (240) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than three hundred (300) 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 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 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 (including land
for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost, and land
used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment system
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.
The 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 or furnished and/or installed by a user
and approved by the City.
[R.O. 2012 §720.030; Ord. No. 85-6-2 Art. III §§1 — 3, 6-3-1985; Ord. No. 87-8-3 Art. III, 8-3-1987]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenue 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 720.040, 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 the replacement
needs over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account).
Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made from the operation,
maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount of eight thousand
three hundred dollars ($8,300.00) annually.
3.
Calculations for the above Replacement Account requirements may be
found in Appendix B which is on file in the office of the City Clerk.
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 ben 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.
[R.O. 2012 §720.040; Ord. No. 85-6-2 Art. IV §§1 — 3, Art. V §§1 — 2, 6-3-1985; Ord. No. 87-8-3 Art IV, 8-3-1987; Ord.
No. 91-9-11 §A, 9-16-1991; Ord. No. 95-10-7 §2, 10-2-1995; Ord. No. 96-10-1 §V, 10-3-1996; Ord. No. 97-7-4 §720.040, 7-7-1997; Ord. No. 14-07-05 §44, 7-21-2014]
A.
Calculations
for user rates may be found in the Schedule of Fees, Title I, Appendix
A.
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
singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable
increases in the cost of operation, maintenance, or replacement of
the treatment work, shall pay for such increased costs. The charge
to each such user will be as determined by the responsible plant operating
personnel and approved by the City Council.
C.
The
user charge rates established in this Chapter apply to all users,
regardless of their location, of the City's treatment works.
D.
All
users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular month shall
be made within thirty (30) days after the end of that month. Payments
are due when the billings are made. Any payment not received within
thirty (30) days after the billing is made shall be delinquent.
E.
A late
payment penalty of ten percent (10%) of the user charge bill will
be added to each delinquent bill for each thirty (30) days of delinquency.
When any bill is thirty (30) days in default, rendition of water and/or
sewer service to such premises shall be discontinued until such bill
is paid following due notice and opportunity for hearing.
F.
Summer
Sewer Credit Program.
[Ord. No. 19-03-04, 3-18-2019]
1.
A residential consumer of potable water receiving service in a single-family
or two-family dwelling may apply for a temporary reduction in the
per gallon sewer use rate for the months of July, August and September.
For two-family dwellings, each dwelling unit must have a separate
meter.
2.
A retail business consumer of potable water with a permanent irrigation or sprinkler system complying with the requirements for backflow prevention device installation, inspection and maintenance under Section 710.210 through 710.300 of the Municipal Code may apply for a temporary reduction in the per gallon sewer use rate for the months of July, August and September if the retail activity is not seasonal in nature.
3.
The per gallon use charge for the billings generated in July, August
and September will be the lesser of: (i) the average per gallon use
charge for the months of January, February and March of that year,
or (ii) the actual consumption.
4.
A residential consumer filling a swimming pool may also apply for
a reduction in the per gallon sewer use charge for the month in which
the consumer initially fills the pool each year. The initial filling
must occur in April, May and June of each year and must be reported
to the Finance Department within fifteen (15) days of filling. The
reduced charge shall be based on the average monthly use charge for
the three (3) months prior to the month of the initial filling of
that year. Each residential consumer is limited to one (1) reduction
in their sewer bill annually for a pool.
5.
Applications for the summer sewer credit program must be submitted
to the Finance Office between the first Friday of March and the first
Monday of June of each year, on the form provided by the Finance Office.
6.
All City taxes, utility bills and fees must be current at the time
of application and throughout the period of rate reduction.
[R.O. 2012 §720.050; Ord. No. 85-6-2 Art. VI §§ 1 — 2, 6-3-1985; Ord. No. 92-5-6 §§I —
II, 5-11-1992]
A.
The
City will review the user charge system at least 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, maintenance
including replacement of the treatment works. All parties understand
that the user charge system takes precedence over any terms or conditions
of agreements or contracts between loan recipient and users (including
industrial users, special districts, other municipalities, or Federal
agencies or installation) which are inconsistent with the requirements
of the act and the corresponding regulations.
[R.O. 2012 §720.060; Ord. No. 91-7-2 §1, 7-15-1991; Ord. No. 97-7-4 §720.060, 7-7-1997; Ord. No. 14-07-05 §45, 7-21-2014]
On all new construction, there shall be a sewer connection fee
charged with the issuance of each building permit based on the water
meter line size. The fee shall be according to the Schedule of Fees,
Title I, Appendix A.
