[Ord. No. 538-a Art. I, 4-21-1980]
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 and maintaining and retiring
the debt for such public wastewater treatment works.
[Ord. No. 538-a Art. II §§1
— 11, 4-21-1980]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings
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
five hundred (500) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not
more than five hundred (500) 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
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.
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 Matthews or furnished and/or installed by
a user and approved by the City of Matthews, Missouri.
[Ord. No. 538-a Art. III §§1
— 3, 4-21-1980]
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 be by ordinance
designated 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 the 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 at least monthly
from the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue.
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 designate 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 operation, maintenance
and replacement. The use 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.
[Ord. No. 538-a Art. IV §§1
— 6, 4-21-1980]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on his/her
use of the treatment works as determined by water meters acceptable
to the City.
B.
Monthly
user charges will be based on average monthly water usage 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 the contributor
may be based on a wastewater meter or separate water meters installed
and maintained at the contributor's expense and in a manner acceptable
to the City.
C.
The
minimum charge per month shall be based on a water consumption of
two thousand (2,000) gallons. The rates shall include a base charge
of two dollars twenty-five cents ($2.25) plus thirty-three cents ($0.33)
per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water, or wastewater as determined
in the preceding Section, for debt retirement, plus a user charge
rate for operation and maintenance including replacement of sixty-seven
cents ($0.67) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water up to twenty
thousand (20,000) gallons, over which twenty cents ($0.20) shall be
charged for debt retirement and forty cents ($0.40) for operation,
maintenance and replacement.
For those contributors who contribute wastewater, the strength of which is greater than normal domestic sewage, a surcharge in addition to the normal user charge will be collected. The surcharge for operation and maintenance including replacement for the excessive strength above that set out in Section 710.020 shall be:
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$0.25 per pound BOD
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$0.25 per pound SS
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D.
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
increase 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 Board of Aldermen.
E.
The
user charge rates established in this Section apply to all users,
regardless of their location, of the City's treatment works.
[Ord. No. 538-a Art. V §§1
— 2, 4-21-1980]
A.
All
users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular month shall
be made within ten (10) days after the end of that month. Payments
are due when the billings are made. Any payment not received within
ten (10) days after the filing is made shall be delinquent.
B.
A late
payment penalty of two dollars ($2.00) of the user charge bill will
be added to each delinquent bill for each delinquency. When any bill
is ten (10) 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.
[Ord. No. 538-a Art. VI §§1
— 2, 4-21-1980]
A.
The
City will review the user charge system at least every two (2) years
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.
