This article shall be known as the "Sewer Rate
and Charge and Connection Fee Ordinance for the Use of the Sanitary
Sewer System Constructed in the Lowries Run Drainage Basin of the
Borough of Franklin Park."
It is determined and declared to be necessary
and conducive to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare
and convenience of the residents of the Lowries Run Drainage Basin
in the Borough of Franklin Park to collect charges from all users
who contribute wastewater to said sanitary sewer system. The proceeds
of such charges so derived will be used for the purpose of paying
debt service and operating and maintaining the aforementioned public
sewerage system.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
COMMERCIAL USER
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all retail
stores, restaurants, office buildings, laundries and other private
business and service establishments of any kind or nature, except
those which are industrial users, residential users, institutional
users or governmental users, as those terms are defined herein.
CONNECTION FEE
The one-time charge levied against all users of the sanitary
sewerage system at the time that connection with the respective premises
involved is made to the system pursuant to a permit issued by the
Borough of Franklin Park, and which shall be utilized for the cost
of operation, maintenance and replacement of said sewerage system.
EDU (EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT)
The amount of water consumed each year for each residential
use, or 60,000 gallons of water consumed per year or estimated to
be consumed per year for nonresidential use.
FIXED RATE
The proportionate charge required to be paid for debt service
payments and cover as set forth in the proceedings concerning the
$4,650,000 Borough of Franklin Park, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
General Obligation Bonds, Series of 1990, and General Obligation Refunding
Bonds, Series of 1993, as regards the portion of the proceeds of such
issue utilized for the construction of the subject sanitary sewer
system, and minimum charges required to cover other constant charges
agreed upon by the industrial users, commercial users, institutional
users and governmental users.
GOVERNMENTAL USERS
Includes legislative, judicial, administrative and regulatory
activities of federal, state and local government, agencies and authorities
and similar users.
INDUSTRIAL USER
Includes any nongovernmental, nonresidential user of the
publicly owned sewerage system.
INSTITUTIONAL USER
Includes social, charitable, religious and educational activities
and organizations, such as schools, churches, hospitals, nursing homes,
penal institutions and other similar users.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
Those functions that result in expenditures during the useful
life of the sewerage system for materials, labor, utilities and other
items which are necessary for managing and operating and maintaining
the system for the purpose for which such sewerage facilities are
designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes
"replacement" as defined herein.
REPLACEMENT
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
sewerage system to maintain the capacity and performance for which
such system was designed and constructed.
RESIDENTIAL USE
Any room, group of rooms or enclosure occupied or intended
for occupancy as the separate living quarters of a person living alone,
a family or any other group of persons living together. The water
consumed each year by each residential dwelling unit within a house,
in a double house, in a row of connecting houses, in a condominium
or in an apartment building shall be defined as one EDU.
RESIDENTIAL USER
Any contributor of sewage to the subject sewerage system
whose lot, parcel, real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling
purposes only.
SEWERAGE SYSTEM
Any devices and systems for the collection, transmission,
storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage,
domestic sewage or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting
sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping power and
other equipment, treatment works and their appurtenances; extensions,
improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements
essential to provide a reliable recycling 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 any
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.
SS (denoting 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
filtering.
TREATMENT RATE
The rate paid to the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority
or any other treatment facilities for the treatment of the wastewater.
USEFUL LIFE
The estimated period during which the sewerage system 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 any wastewater treatment works and
sewerage system.
VARIABLE RATE
The charges required to pay for the operation, maintenance
and administration expenses of the sewerage system in the Lowries
Run Drainage Basin. Said expenses in such districts shall not be included
in the variable rate for any other sewerage district.
WATER METER
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by a user and approved by the Pennsylvania-American Water
Company, or its successors.