[CC 1993 § 67.200]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BOD (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 fifty (350) 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.
SHALL
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SS (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.
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; 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 Glasgow, Missouri, or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City.
[CC 1993 § 67.205]
A. 
The user charge system shall generate 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.
B. 
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes as established in Article IV, shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the "Sewer Utility and Sewer Replacement and Improvement 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 one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) 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 change rates for operation, maintenance and replacement. The user change 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.
[CC 1993 § 67.210]
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. 
For residential contributors, monthly user charges shall be based on monthly water usage.
C. 
For industrial and commercial contributors, user charges shall be based on monthly water usage. 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 that contributor may be based on a wastewater meter(s) installed and maintained at the contributor's expense and in a manner acceptable to the City.
D. 
The minimum charge per month for customers shall be as set out in Section 700.020(B).
[Ord. No. 3276, 7-14-2014]
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 will be collected. The surcharge for operation and maintenance including replacement will be developed on a case-by-case basis, using the formula described in Appendix A, Paragraph 7.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Said appendix is on file in the City offices.
F. 
Any user who 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 who 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 determined and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
G. 
The user charge rates established in this Article apply to all the City's treatment works, regardless of their location.
[CC 1993 § 67.215; Ord. No. 2988, 5-12-2003]
Bills issued for wastewater treatment (sewerage service) shall be billed at the same time as the bill presented for municipal water and shall become due on the same date as the water bill, and delinquency and penalty, if any, shall accrue at the same time and in the same manner as set forth in and in accordance with the procedures established for collection of municipal water bills.
[CC 1993 § 67.220]
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 cost 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.