[Ord. No. 793 §1]
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 and maintaining the public
wastewater treatment works.
[Ord. No. 793 §2]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter shall be as follows:
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5)
days at 20 degrees C, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
204 mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than 240
mg/l.
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor utilities, and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
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 "operating and
maintenance" includes replacement.
Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot,
parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
Is mandatory; MAY is permissive.
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.
Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling,
and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial
wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage
collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other
equipment and their appurtenances; extensions improvement, 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 the
land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is
used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment
(including land for compositing 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, including waste
in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
The estimated period during which a treatment works will
be operated.
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.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Palmyra or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Palmyra.
[Ord. No. 793 §3]
A.
The user
charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay costs
of annual operation and maintenance including replacement which the
City may by ordinance designate to be paid by the user charge system.
That portion of the total user charge which is designated for operation
and maintenance including replacement of the treatment works shall
be established by this Chapter.
B.
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in Section 620.050 shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund and will be kept in two (2) primary accounts as follows:
1.
An account
designated for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance
costs (excluding replacement) of the treatment works (Operation and
Maintenance Account).
2.
An account
designated for the specific purpose of insuring replacement needs
over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account).
Deposits in the Replacement Account shall be made annually, from the
operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount of four
thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars ($4,532.00) annually.
[Ord. No. 793 §4]
Fiscal year-end balances in the Operation and Maintenance Account
and the Replacement Account shall be carried over to the same accounts
in the subsequent fiscal year, and shall be used for no other purposes
than those designated for these accounts. Monies which have been transferred
from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the Operation, Maintenance
and Replacement Funds shall be returned to their respective accounts
upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates for operation,
maintenance, and replacement. The user charge rate(s) shall be adjusted
such that the transferred monies will be returned to their respective
accounts within the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which
the monies were borrowed.
[Ord. No. 793 §5]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on his
use of the treatment works as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
1.
For
residential customers, monthly user charges will be based on actual
monthly water usage, as recorded by the potable water meter.
2.
For
industrial and commercial contributors, user charges shall be based
on water used during the current month. If a commercial or industrial
contributor has a consumptive use of water, or in some other manner
uses water which is not returned to the wastewater collection system,
the user charge for that contributor may be based on a wastewater
meter(s) or separate water meter(s) installed and maintained at the
contributor's expense and in a manner acceptable to the City.
3.
Appendix
A is on file in the City Clerk's office.
A monthly charge of ninety cents ($.90) which covers costs of
billing and collection and treatment of infiltration/inflow, shall
be included in the minimum charge per month as set by the City of
Palmyra. In addition, each contributor shall pay a minimum of forty
cents ($.40) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water (or wastewater)
as defined in the previous Section, as part of the user charge rate.
Forty cents ($.40) per one thousand (1,000) gallons will cover all
costs for operation and maintenance including replacement. As part
of the minimum user charges, the City Council may add a charge to
recover costs associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the treatment works.
4.
Appendix
A is on file in the City Clerk's office.
For those contributors who contribute wastewater, the strength
of which is greater than normal domestic sewage, a surcharge in addition
to the normal user charge will be collected. The surcharge for operation
and maintenance including replacement is:
$0.075 per pound BOD
$0.064 per pound SS
5.
Any
user which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase
in the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the City's
treatment works, or any user which discharges any substances which
singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable
increases in the costs of operation, maintenance or replacement of
the treatment works, shall pay for such increased costs. The charge
to each such user shall be as determined by the responsible plant
operating personnel and approved by the City Council.
6.
The
user charge rates established in this Section apply to all users,
regardless of their location, of the City's treatment works. No credit
for BOD/SS removals below the standard strengths will be allowed.
[Ord. No. 793 §6]
All users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular
month shall be made within thirty (30) days after the end of the month.
Payments are due when the billings are made. Any payment not received
within thirty (30) days after billing is made shall be delinquent.
[Ord. No. 793 §7]
A late payment penalty of ten percent (10%) of the user charge
bill will be added to each delinquent bill for each thirty (30) days
of delinquency. When any bill is thirty (30) days in default, rendition
of water and/or sewer service to such premises shall be discontinued
until such bill is paid following due notice and opportunity for hearing.
[Ord. No. 793 §8]
The City will review the user charge system at least every two
(2) years, and revise user charge rates as necessary to insure that
the system generates adequate revenues to pay the costs of operation
and maintenance including replacement and that the system continues
to provide for the proportional distribution of operation and maintenance
including replacement costs among users and user classes.
[Ord. No. 793 §9]
The City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction
with a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation maintenance
including replacement of the treatment works.
