[Adopted 5-18-2015]
As used in this Part 2, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
The amount paid per 1,000 gallons by a property owner for the use of the Municipal Sewer System in accordance with the Fee Schedule. For the service rendered to any Town departments or agencies, the Town shall be subject to the same rates and charges as any other customer in their water service code.
The fee charged to file an application to connect a lot or building to the municipal sewer system.
The Board of Sewer Commissioners of the Town of Kingston.
The quantity of oxygen used in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter in a specified time, at a specified temperature and under specified conditions. "BOD measurement" is a method used to assess the strength of wastewater.
A sewer user who discharges wastewater from a nonmanufacturing business. "Commercial users" shall mean retail establishments, restaurants, lodging, office buildings, warehouses, gas stations, etc., or contributing an average monthly flow in excess of 10,000 gallons or any industrial establishment not qualifying as an industrial customer.
The actual permanent joining of a property's building sewer to the municipal sewer system.
The division of wastewater treatment customers by source, function, waste characteristics, and process or discharge similarities (residential, commercial and industrial) in the sewer rate system. The purpose of such classification is to facilitate the regulation of wastewater discharges based on wastewater constituents and characteristics to provide an effective means of source control, and to establish a system of customer charges and fees which will ensure an equitable recovery of the cost. Town departments and agencies are subject to the same rates and charges as any other customer.
All charges associated with removing a property connection from the Town's wastewater collection system, including, but not limited to, construction costs, police detail(s), road paving, etc.
The yearly fee charged for a license.
The fee charged for consultation services.
A separate financial entity from the Town's general fund. A fee is charged for municipal services provided. Revenues and expenses are segregated into the Wastewater Enterprise Fund with financial statements separate from all other municipal activities.
A measure to define a dwelling and units used to allocate individual betterments to property. One equivalent residential unit (ERU) is equivalent to a single-family home or 330 gallons per day (gpd) of estimated wastewater production.
An additional charge for exceeding the allocated sewer flow assessed to a property.
An additional charge which is billed to customers for treating sewage wastes with an average strength in excess of normal domestic sewage.
The flat rate charged to sewer customers that are not customers of the Water Department and are not billed based on metered water use. They will be billed a flat rate per equivalent residential unit as determined fair and equitable by the Board of Sewer Commissioners.
The additional charge which is billed to a property required to install a grease trap per the Town of Kingston's Sewer Rules and Regulations. The charge is to recover the cost to administer the monitoring, inspection program and the number of grease traps connected to the wastewater collection system.
Waste which exert loadings on the Kingston Wastewater Treatment Plant in excess of design parameters and which contain pollutants in excess of the following: BOD in excess of 250 milligrams per liter; suspended solids in excess of 300 milligrams per liter; fats, oil or grease in excess of 100 milligrams per liter; organic solvents or chemicals which may cause an excessive oxygen demand.
A special assessment tax to an individual property where the property is within a limited determinable area and receives a special benefit or advantage, other than the general advantage to the community, from the construction of the improvement (in this case, sewers).
An industrial user fees charged on an industrial cost allocation formula based on cost units for flow, suspended solids, and biochemical oxygen demand loadings or chemical oxygen demand. Such costs shall be reflective of actual costs to treat and remove pollutants.
The sewer user who discharges wastewater from industrial processes, trades, or manufacturing as distinct from residential and commercial users.
Include the liquid or water-carried wastes of any industrial process, trade or business not clearly included in the Sewer Rules and Regulations, stormwater or cooling water, even if emanating from a residence, as distinct from ordinary sanitary sewage.
The area of the Town of Kingston provided with municipal sewers connected to the Kingston Wastewater Treatment Plant and appurtenant works which exist in public ways and private lands by means of easement to the Town of Kingston and connections to same system by means of an approved permit authorized by the Kingston Board of Sewer Commissioners or its authorized agent.
Facility located at 8 Cranberry Road, which treats wastewater received through the collection system or directly at the plant.
All costs associated with the analysis of a sample.
Charges billed to an entity for the treatment of wastewater not delivered to the Kingston Wastewater Treatment Plant through the wastewater collection system.
Is permissive; "shall" is mandatory.
Flat rate charged to each customer class, in addition to the sewer rate.
A common sewer owned, operated, and maintained by the Town of Kingston within public ways or within easements granted to the Town for the Kingston Sewer Area through the Board of Sewer Commissioners, its successors or its assigns.
The liquid wastes:
From the noncommercial preparation, cooling and handling of food; or
Containing human excrement and similar matter from the sanitary conveniences of dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and/or institutions generally having strengths not exceeding 200 mg/l BOD and 225 mg/l suspended solids.
The permit issued to the sewage works under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System for discharge of wastewaters pursuant to Section 402 of the Federal Water Quality Act Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-500).[1]
Includes all costs, direct and indirect, necessary to provide adequate wastewater collection, transport, and treatment on a continuing basis and produce discharges to receiving areas that conform with all related federal, state, and local requirements.
Tap charges, connection charges, area charges, and other identifiable charges, other than customer charges, and excessive strength surcharges.
Water meter consumption gallons divided by 1,000; example: water meter consumption is 50,000; 50,000 divided by 1,000 is 50 gallons.
Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation or group; municipal or private, government agency or other entity.
All charges associated with connecting a property to the Town's wastewater collection system, including, but not limited to, construction costs, police detail(s), road paving, etc.
The budget allowances set aside to provide for cash expenditures for procuring and installing units of equipment or reconstructing appurtenances necessary to maintain or regain the capacity and performance for which the treatment works were designed during their useful life.
A sewer user who discharges wastewater from a single-family residential building, or individual dwelling in a multiple-family building.
Those wastes from nonresidential customers which are generated from activities of a domestic nature and which are measurable or set apart from industrial discharges.
The cost per gallon to treat waste received at the waste treatment plant through another method other than the municipal sewer pipes; typically, septic haulers.
The amount paid per quarter in addition to the annual per-gallon sewer usage fee, also called "minimum base rate."
Based on water consumption at a cost per thousand gallons, which includes operational and maintenance costs and replacement costs to deliver and treat wastewater at the treatment plant and the subsequent discharge.
A separate and companion enactment to this document which regulates the connection to and use of public and private sewers.[2]
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
An assembly of analytical techniques and descriptions commonly accepted in water and wastewater treatment as found in the most recent edition of "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater," published jointly by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
Solids that either float on the surface of, or are suspended in, water, sewage, or other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
The Town of Kingston, Massachusetts, acting by and through its Board of Sewer Commissioners.
The volume of water used by a customer of the Kingston Water Department, as measured in gallons at the approved water meter.