[Added 4-26-1983 by Ord. No. 1886]
[Amended 7-1-2006 by Ord. No. 3004; 4-15-2009 by Ord. No. 3175]
Each user of wastewater collection and treatment services provided by the Village of Ridgewood shall pay his proportionate share of the cost of operation and maintenance (including replacement, and further including extraneous flows such as groundwater and stormwater which enter the system) of such works as set forth in this article as follows:
A. 
Residential users and small nonresidential users with waste flows of no more than one equivalent dwelling unit (EDU) of domestic sanitary wastewater shall continue to pay for their use of the system based on ad valorem taxation.
B. 
Industrial, institutional, and commercial users which discharge more than one equivalent dwelling unit (EDU) of flow shall pay for their use of the system based on the annual volume discharged, in addition to parameters such as biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), suspended solids (SS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), and the quantity of fats, oils and greases per unit volume of the flow.
C. 
Tax exempt and tax credited users, including users who make a payment in lieu of taxes but excluding municipally owned properties of the Village of Ridgewood, shall pay for their actual use of the sanitary sewage collection system as determined by taking the total metered water consumption (in gallons) during the fourth quarter and first quarter of a year (the months October, November, December, January, February and March) and doubling it as equal to actual annual water consumption for the calendar year. The flow charge shall be per 1,000 gallons discharged, as determined by the provisions of this chapter.
The user charge system shall be reviewed biennially to assure that all users are paying their proper proportionate share of the cost of the operation and maintenance of the system and otherwise to comply with the rules and regulations now or hereafter promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Each user of the system shall be notified at least annually of the rate and portion of overall taxes paid attributable to the wastewater collection and treatment service system.
In the event that a pretreatment program is required to be installed by the Village, the costs of such a pretreatment program shall be included in the user charge system cost.
The Village Manager is hereby directed to develop and implement a detailed system of recordkeeping for wastewater flows and user rates for each user class, to prepare and issue separate billings or notification to indicate sewer user rates and charges for each class herein established and to implement a detailed recordkeeping system for bills issued and payments received based on the sewer user charge system.
[Added 12-13-2006 by Ord. No. 3031]
A. 
The annual service charge rates for the different user classes for the current fiscal year, and subsequent years, shall be determined by the Village Council of the Village of Ridgewood.
B. 
The significant discharger annual flow charge rate shall be per 1,000 gallons discharged, in excess of one EDU per year, as determined each fiscal year by the Village Council of the Village of Ridgewood based upon the operating costs of the Village of Ridgewood Water Pollution Control Facility.
[Amended 3-12-2008 by Ord. No. 3102; 4-15-2009 by Ord. No. 3175]
C. 
Tax exempt and tax credited users rate shall be per 1,000 gallons discharged, as determined each fiscal year by the Village Council of the Village of Ridgewood based upon the operating costs of the Village of Ridgewood Water Pollution Control Facility.
[Added 3-12-2008 by Ord. No. 3102; amended 4-15-2009 by Ord. No. 3175]
[Amended 4-15-2009 by Ord. No. 3175]
All dischargers to the Village of Ridgewood sanitary sewer collection system that are classified as tax exempt or tax credited users shall pay for their wastewater discharge. The rate charged shall be in accordance with the provisions of § 238-59C.