[Ord. No. 59, 7-6-1999]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive
to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare, and convenience
of the Village to collect charges from all users who contribute wastewater
to the Village'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.
[Ord. No. 59, 7-6-1999]
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).
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.
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 Village's treatment works whose
lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling
purposes only.
Is mandatory; "May" is permissive.
The 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 interceptor sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection
systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and
their appurtenances, extensions, improvements, 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 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 the 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 Village of Kingdom City or furnished and/or
installed by a user and approved by the Village of Kingdom City.
[Ord. No. 59, 7-6-1999]
A.Â
The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to
pay the costs of annual operation and maintenance, including replacement
and cost associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the treatment works which the Village 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.Â
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for the 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.Â
The Operation and Maintenance Account shall be an account designated
for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance costs
(excluding replacement) of the treatment works. Deposits in the Operation
and Maintenance Account shall be made at least annually from the operation
and maintenance revenue in an amount to be determined by the Board
of Trustees annually.
2.Â
The Replacement Account shall be an account designated for the
purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the
treatment works. Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made
at least annually from the replacement revenue in an amount to be
determined by the Board of Trustees annually.
C.Â
Fiscal year-end balances in the Operation and Maintenance Account
and the Replacement Account shall be carried over to the same accounts
in each 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.
[Ord. No. 59, 7-6-1999]
A.Â
The Village shall 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.Â
The Village 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.
