[R.O. 1992 § 700.310; Ord. No.
2245-08 § 1, 5-6-2008]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience
of the City of Camdenton 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. 1992 § 700.320; Ord. No.
2245-08 § 1, 5-6-2008]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of the terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
BOD (denoting "biochemical oxygen demand")
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).
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
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.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
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.
REPLACEMENT
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.
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot,
parcel of real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
SS (denoting "suspended solids")
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.
TREATMENT WORKS
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.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
USER CHARGE
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.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Camdenton or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Camdenton.
[R.O. 1992 § 700.330; Ord. No.
2245-08 § 1, 5-6-2008]
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 of Camdenton 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 Article.
B. That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes as established in Section
700.430, 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 (at least annually)
from the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount
of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) annually.
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 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. 1992 § 700.340; Ord. No.
2245-08 § 1, 5-6-2008; Ord. No. 2346-10 § 1, 3-16-2010]
A. Each user shall pay for the services provided by the City of Camdenton
based on his/her use of the treatment works as determined by water
meters acceptable to the City.
B. For residential contributors, monthly user charges will be based
on actual monthly water usage.
C. For industrial and commercial contributors, user charges shall be
based on water used during the current month.
D. The minimum charge per month shall be nine dollars ($9.00). In addition,
each contributor shall pay a user charge rate for operation and maintenance,
including replacement, of two dollars and seventy cents ($2.70) per
one thousand (1,000) gallons of water (or wastewater) as determined
in the preceding Section effective October 1, 2023.
[Ord. No. 2525-15 § 1, 2-3-2015; Ord. No. 2653-17, 5-16-2017; Ord. No.
2772-19, 9-17-2019; Ord. No. 2921-22, 8-2-2022; Ord. No. 2965-23, 9-5-2023]
E. 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 may be collected.
1.
The surcharge for operation and maintenance, including replacement
is:
$0.143 per pound BOD
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$0.191 per pound SS
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2.
Refer to Appendix A, which is on file in the office of the City
Clerk.
F. 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.
G. The user charge rates established in this Article apply to all users,
regardless of their location, of the City's treatment works.
[R.O. 1992 § 700.360; Ord. No.
2245-08 § 1, 5-6-2008]
A. The City of Camdenton 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 post by public notice in City Hall at least annually
the rate being charged for operation and maintenance, including replacement
of the treatment works.