[R.O. 2004 §725.010; CC 1990 §725.010; Ord. No. 680 Art. I, 1-4-1990]
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. 2004 §725.020; CC 1990 §725.020; Ord. No. 680 Art. II, 1-4-1990]
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).
A place where products are manufactured or fabricated.
Any office, shop or mercantile premises where ten (10) or
less employees are based and where food or beverages are not sold
or dispensed.
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred fifty (250) 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 such works were designed and constructed.
Restaurants, quick shops, grocers, taverns, fast-food establishments,
service stations, motels, schools, churches, concrete and plaster
products sales, laundries and laundromats, banks, auto parts stores,
garages and other similar occupancies.
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. In multi-family premises each dwelling unit shall constitute
a "residential contributor". Each bay in a mobile home park shall
constitute a "residential contributor".
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 the 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 a treatment works will
be operated.
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 and inclusive of
debt payment.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by the City of Pevely or furnished and/or installed by a
user and approved by the City of Pevely.
[R.O. 2004 §725.030; CC 1990 §725.030; Ord. No. 680 Art. III, 1-4-1990]
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 a bonded capital associated
with financing the treatment works which the City may by ordinance
designate to be paid by the user charge system.
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 replacement
needs over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account).
Deposits in the replacement account shall be made semi-annually from
the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount of
twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) annually.
3.
An account designated for the specific purpose of ensuring prompt
payment of principal and interest over the maturity schedule of bonds
(Bond and Interest Account). Deposits to this account shall be made
monthly from the revenues. This account shall be used to pay current
requirements of principal, interest and bond reserves.
C.
Fiscal
year-end balances in the operation and maintenance account, the replacement
account and the bond and interest 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.
[R.O. 2004 §725.040; CC 1990 §725.040; Ord. No. 680 Art. IV, 1-4-1990; Ord.
No. 761 §I, 1-4-1993; Ord. No. 1112 §1, 6-19-2006; Ord.
No. 1169 §§1, 3, 11-3-2008; Ord. No. 1203 §§1,
3, 10-19-2009; Ord. No. 1223 §§1 — 2, 4-5-2010; Ord.
No. 1293 §§1 –– 2, 12-17-2012]
A.
Each user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on
his/her use of the treatment works.
B.
The monthly minimum bill shall include the first five thousand seven
hundred thirty-two (5,732) gallons or less of water and will be based
upon water meter size and customer type as follows:
1.
Residential service, no unit charges, and a flat fee of: thirty-five
dollars and eighty-seven cents ($35.87).
2.
Commercial, industrial and all other user classes:
|
Meter Size
(inches)
|
Rate
| |
|---|---|---|
|
5/8
|
$35.87
| |
|
3/4
|
$37.27
| |
|
1
|
$38.36
| |
|
1 1/2
|
$41.47
| |
|
2
|
$45.83
| |
|
3
|
$58.28
| |
|
4
|
$75.71
| |
|
5
|
$98.12
| |
|
6
|
$125.51
| |
|
7
|
$157.88
| |
|
8
|
$195.23
| |
|
9
|
$237.55
| |
|
10
|
$284.86
|
C.
For commercial and industrial contributors the monthly user charge
shall be based upon the water used during the month as determined
by water meter. If such 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 installed in the building sewer just before
connection to the City's collection sewer. However, such meter
shall be installed and maintained at the contributor's expense
and in a manner acceptable to the City. Also all users in this category
assume responsibility of annual calibration of all sewer meters and
forward certificate/report to City. No other metering arrangement
will be acceptable as a basis for determining the monthly user charges.
The user charge per month for contributors in this category shall
be as follows:
|
Operation, Maintenance, Administration and Debt Service
|
Pretreatment Program
|
Total
| ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Per 1,000 gallons
|
$6.71
|
$0.49
|
$7.20
|
|
However, where said contributors deliver to the sewer collection
system wastes that have strong or unusual properties, as compared
to normal domestic wastewater, an additional charge shall be made
as calculated by the methodology set out in Appendix A to User Charge
System.[1]
|
[1]
Editor's Note: Appendix A to User Charge System, Appendix
B: Replacement Schedule, and Appendix C: Equipment Replacement Details
Chart, are on file in the City offices.
D.
For connection to the wastewater collection system there shall be
paid an initial connection charge determined as follows:
E.
Any user that 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 that discharges any substance which singularly
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 determined by the responsible plant operating personnel
and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
F.
The user charge rates established in this Section apply only to residents
of the City. Sewer users outside the City shall pay based upon their
usage of another purveyor's metered charges or, if no metered
charges exist, a flat fee that is twice the amount of the City residential
fee.
[R.O. 2004 §725.050; CC 1990 §725.050; Ord. No. 680 Art. V, 1-4-1990; Ord. No. 772 §§1 — 2, 7-15-1993; Ord. No. 1293 §§1 ––
2, 12-17-2012]
A.
Bills will be rendered for service by the 20th day of the month in
which the service was rendered as set forth in the rate schedule.
Bills not paid by the 10th day of the month following shall be subject
to a late charge of ten percent (10%) per month. Service bills not
paid within fifteen (15) days of the due date are subject to disconnection
of the service. Failure of the City to submit a service bill shall
not excuse the sewer user from his/her obligation to pay for the sewer
used when the bill is submitted.
B.
Deposits shall be required of each sewer customer within the City
of Pevely, Missouri, who is not on the water system as follows:
1.
Single-family owner-occupied residential unit: one hundred dollars
($100.00).
2.
Single-family renter-occupied residential unit: one hundred
dollars ($100.00).
3.
All new residents' deposits will be paid as soon as residency
is established. Failure to pay the deposit can result in a fine and
court action.
[R.O. 2004 §725.060; CC 1990 §725.060; Ord. No. 680 Art. VI, 1-4-1990; Ord.
No. 761 §II, 1-4-1993]
A.
The
City will review the user charge system each 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.
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.
[R.O. 2004 §725.070; Ord. No. 761 §IV, 1-4-1993; Ord. No. 1293 §§1 — 2, 12-17-2012]
A.
This Appendix presents the methodology to be used in calculating
user charge rates and surcharges and illustrates the calculations
followed in arriving at the first (1st) year's user charges and
surcharges. The unit costs established in this Appendix are based
on estimates of expenses and loadings. The actual expenses and loadings
that occur may differ from these estimates and certainly they will
change as time passes. Therefore, the unit costs must be re-established
whenever necessary to reflect actual expenses and loadings. The expenses
and loadings may be determined from operating records and the unit
costs can be adjusted based on these figures.
B.
Appendix A to User Charge System, Appendix B: Replacement Schedule,
and Appendix C: Equipment Replacement Details Chart[1] are attached hereto and incorporated in their entirety
by reference herein.
[1]
Editor's Note: Appendix A to User Charge System, Appendix
B: Replacement Schedule, and Appendix C: Equipment Replacement Details
Chart, are on file in the City offices.
