[Bill No. 71, 8-30-1999]
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.
[Bill No. 71, 8-30-1999]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
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
two hundred fifty (250) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration
of not more than three hundred (300) mg/l and any other pollutant.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items, including
replacement, 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.
SEWER CAPACITY FEE
The fee collected from new users of the treatment works to
be used to provide for the expansion of the treatment works and/or
the wastewater treatment facility handling City effluent.
[Bill No. 90, 11-13-2001]
SHALL
Is mandatory; "May" is permissive.
SS (SUSPENDED SOLIDS)
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.
TREATMENT WORKS
Any devices and systems for the collection, 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;
and 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 the 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 installed by the City of Merriam Woods.