It is the purpose of this section to provide for the payment of charges from industrial users to compensate the city for the cost of installing, operating, maintaining and further improving the POTW and for the cost of administration of the pretreatment program established herein.
(Ord. 1221 § 1, 1996)
(1) 
Any industrial user who has a process wastewater which is discharged into the city's sewer and is equivalent to domestic sewage except that the BOD or TSS levels may be higher than 300 mg/l shall pay a fee based on the domestic sewage rates established in the WMC and an equivalent domestic population. To determine the equivalent domestic population, each person is assumed to generate 0.2 pounds of BOD per day and 0.2 pounds of TSS per day. The director of public works shall determine if an industrial wastewater is equivalent to domestic sewage and, if so, the equivalent domestic population to be used in the fee calculation. The city council shall approve the director's determination.
(2) 
Any industrial user who has a process wastewater which is not equivalent to domestic sewage (see subsection (1) of this section) shall pay a fee to be determined by the director and approved by the city council for the cost of accommodating the waste.
(3) 
The city reserves the following rights:
(a) 
To modify the above rates to reflect changes in POTW facilities, labor costs, requirements in the city's NPDES permit, biosolids land application program, and costs of materials and supplies;
(b) 
To periodically review the characteristics of an industrial wastewater and modify the fee by council action based on the results of such review.
(Ord. 1221 § 1, 1996)