[R.O. 2013 § 715.010; R.O. 2005
§ 22-120; Ord. No. 91 Art.
I]
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. 2013 § 715.020; R.O. 2005
§ 22-121; Ord. No. 91 Art.
II]
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).
Is permissive.
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
three hundred (300) 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.
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 are 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.
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.
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 Fayette.
[R.O. 2013 § 715.030; R.O. 2005
§ 22-122; Ord. No. 91 Art.
III § 1]
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.
[R.O. 2013 § 715.040; R.O. 2005
§ 22-123; Ord. No. 91 Art. III
§ 2; Ord. No. 93-2; Ord. No. 94-11]
A Sewer Sinking Fund is established.
[R.O. 2013 § 715.050; R.O. 2005
§ 22-124; Ord. No. 91 Art.
III § 3]
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 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. 2013 § 715.060; R.O. 2005
§ 22-125; Ord. No. 91 Art.
IV § 1]
Each user shall pay for the services
provided by the City based on his/her use of the treatment works as
determined by water meter(s) acceptable to the City.
[R.O. 2013 § 715.070; R.O. 2005
§ 22-126; Ord. No. 91 Art.
IV § 2]
For residential, industrial and commercial
contributors, user charges shall be based on water used during the
current month. If a residential, 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.
[R.O. 2013 § 715.080; R.O. 2005
§ 22-128; Ord. No. 91 Art.
IV § 4]
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 is:
$0.047 per pound BOD.
$0.040 per pound SS.
[R.O. 2013 § 715.090; R.O. 2005
§ 22-129; Ord. No. 91 Art.
IV § 5]
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 Board of
Aldermen.
[R.O. 2013 § 715.100; R.O. 2005
§ 22-130; Ord. No. 91 Art.
IV § 6]
The user charge rates established
in this Chapter apply to all users, regardless of their location,
of the City's treatment works.
[R.O. 2013 § 715.110; R.O. 2005
§ 22-133; Ord. No. 91 Art.
VI § 1]
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.
