[Adopted 8-9-1977 by Ord. No. 5-77
as Part 9, Title 3, Art. 931 of the 1977 Code]
There is hereby imposed an annual rental or
charge upon the owners of residential, commercial and industrial properties
coming within the tolerances for sewage discharge as will be determined
and regulated from time to time by the Sanitary Authority and served,
or to be served, for the use of the sanitary sewer system in the city.
The annual sanitary sewer rental to be charged
to properties located in the city for the discharging of sanitary
sewage into the sewer system shall be at the following rates based
on metered water consumption:
A.
Rates per 100 cubic feet.
(1)
Rates per 100 cubic feet, for all water used, except
where the minimum charge shall apply:
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Price per 100 Cubic Feet
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Quantity per Quarter
(cubic feet)
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O & M
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Debt Service
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Total
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First 1,500 or less
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$0.24
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$0.38
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$0.62
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Next 10,000 or less
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$0.24
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$0.34
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$0.58
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Next 20,000 or less
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$0.24
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$0.30
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$0.54
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Next 20,000 or less
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$0.24
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$0.26
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$0.50
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Next 20,000 or less
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$0.24
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$0.23
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$0.47
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Next 200,000 or less
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$0.24
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$0.20
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$0.44
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Next 200,000 or less
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$0.24
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$0.17
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$0.41
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Next 9,000,000 or less
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$0.24
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$0.16
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$0.40
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Next 9,471,500 or less
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$0.24
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$0.16
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$0.40
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(2)
Provided, however, that no bill for metered service shall be rendered for less than the minimum charge described in Subsection B hereof and that all bills (except such minimum bills) shall reflect the amounts payable in respect of operation and maintenance (O & M) charges and debt service charges as shown in the table above.
B.
Minimum charges.
(1)
Minimum charges which shall apply to each customer
according to the size of water meter installed:
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Size of Meter
(inches)
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Quarterly Minimum
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5/8
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$9.30 3/4
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1
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$23.85
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1 1/4
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$34.92
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1 1/2
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$46.78
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2
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$94.69
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3
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$198.07
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4
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$410.35
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(2)
Each minimum charge shall entitle the customer to
the use of the number of cubic feet of water per quarter or fraction
of a quarter which the minimum charge would cover, as computed by
the above schedule of rates.
A.
The sewer rentals imposed under § 169-4 shall be paid quarterly in accordance with billings for sewage service as shall be rendered by the city or the Sanitary Authority. The city or its agent may assign different quarterly billing periods to different users. If the quarterly bill of any such user shall cover a period in which less than a full quarter of sewer service shall be rendered, such quarterly bill shall be computed on a per diem, pro rata basis.
B.
The sewer rentals hereby imposed shall be effective for all sewer service rendered on and after June 1, 1976, and shall be payable quarterly. Each bill shall be due and payable within 10 days after the date on which such bill is rendered. Where a single meter is used to measure water used by two or more dwelling units, premises, properties or establishments, the minimum rental set forth under § 169-4B will be charged for each dwelling unit or the total water metered shall be proportioned equally and the sewer rental charge to each dwelling unit shall be computed at the rate under § 169-4A above, whichever is greater.
A.
The volume of water to be used for billing sewer rentals
to users of the sewer system shall include any and all metered water
purchased from the Municipal Water Authority of the city or any water
obtained from any other source as determined:
B.
Exclusion from the sewer system of noncontaminated
wastewaters and waters used solely for cooling purposes may be optional
with the user if not required by the Sanitary Authority. When such
waters are excluded, the sewer rental shall be based on total water
consumption, less water excluded, at the rates stipulated above. Water
excluded may be determined from water meters installed and maintained
by the user or from estimates or measurements made by the Sanitary
Authority, or the user may elect to measure the volume of wastes actually
discharged to the sewer system as provided for below.
C.
The Sanitary Authority may require an industrial establishment or the industrial establishment may elect to install, pay for and maintain a meter approved by the Sanitary Authority for measuring wastewaters discharged into the sewer system, in which case the sewer rental shall be based on the actual quarterly volume of wastes discharged to the sewer system; such rentals shall be computed at the rates described in § 169-4 and subject to the surcharges imposed by § 169-6D. Any premises used wholly or in part for the manufacture, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembly of any product, commodity or articles shall be classed as an industrial establishment.
D.
Industrial and commercial surcharges.
(1)
Industrial and commercial users of the sewer system
discharging sewage and/or wastes with an average suspended solids
(SS) content greater than 275 parts per million (PPM), a biological
oxygen demand (BOD) greater than 300 PPM or a chlorine demand (C)
in excess of five PPM shall pay a surcharge in accordance with the
following formulas:
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F = 1 +0.15 [0.75 (SS-275) + 0.25 (BOD-300)]
275 300
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and
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RC = 0.00835 Pc. (C-5)
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For the purposes of the above computation, the
following designators shall be given the meanings set forth:
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"F" equals factor to be applied to basic rate
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"RC" equals surcharge rate for chlorine demand
in cents per thousand gallons of waste
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"Pc" equals contract price of chlorine in cents
per pound
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(2)
The strength of waste to be used for establishing
the amount of surcharge will be determined pursuant to regulations
of the Sanitary Authority as in effect from time to time and approved
by the city.
A.
Access by city; prevention.
(1)
The city's representative shall have access at all
times to industrial establishments and any meters used for establishing
or determining water consumption, water excluded from the sewer system
or sewage and/or wastewaters discharged to the sewer system.
(2)
Industries shall install fine screens to remove husks,
hulls, vegetable skins and peelings, threads, lint, grease and any
and all such materials considered by the Sanitary Authority to overload,
impair the efficiency of or cause difficulties in the operation of
the sewers, treatment plant or other sewer facilities.
B.
The Sanitary Authority shall have the right to refuse
connection to any sewer or to compel discontinuance of use of any
sewer or to compel pretreatment of industrial wastes by any industry
in order to prevent discharge to the sewer deemed to be harmful to
the sewerage system treatment plant or to have a deleterious effect
on the sewage treatment or sludge handling process.
C.
Industries discharging wastes in excess of 50,000
gallons per day, having large variations in the rate of waste discharged,
shall install suitable holding tanks for equalizing the rate of discharge
uniformly over the entire 24 hours of the day. The peak rate of discharge
for any such industry per day shall not exceed 150% of the average
daily discharge at any time.
D.
The Sanitary Authority may from time to time adopt
such further particular rules and regulations, in addition to the
rules and regulations set forth in this section, as the Sanitary Authority,
with the concurrence of its consulting engineer, shall deem necessary
or appropriate for the efficient operation, maintenance or preservation
of the sewers, sewage treatment plant and all appurtenances thereto
or the sewer business.
A.
Garbage disposers. The Sanitary Authority may also from time to time impose a charge for garbage disposers (grinders) feeding into the sanitary sewers, such charge not to exceed 10% of the quarterly billing calculated under § 169-4.
B.
Water shutoff to vacant premises. The Sanitary Authority shall impose a vacancy charge against all premises requesting water shutoff in an amount not to exceed 25% of the applicable quarterly minimum charge calculated under § 169-4B.
C.
Unconnected abutting premises. The Sanitary Authority shall impose the lowest quarterly charge under § 169-4B against any premises abutting the sanitary sewer system even though such premises are not connected to the sanitary sewer system, provided that connection to the sewer system is feasible. All newly constructed premises shall be subject to the extension of the sanitary sewer system for the purpose of connection thereto and use thereof, provided that such connection and use are feasible.
A.
The owner or owners of property and the tenants and
occupants thereof are jointly and severally responsible for the payment
of all sewer rental charges. Any sewer rental charge not paid on or
before 10 days after the due date shown on the statement rendered
for such sewer rental or charge shall be a lien on the property charged
with the payment thereof. Such sewer rental charge, if not paid after
30 days' notice, may be collected by an action of assumpsit, by distress
of personal property on the premises, by filing a municipal lien and
execution thereon or by any other lawful means.
B.
All sewer rental charges shall be payable on or before
the due date shown on the sewage bill and, when paid thereafter, shall
be increased by 5% of the billed amount as a penalty. Each sewer rental
charge (together with the foregoing penalty) not paid within 60 days
of the due date shall accrue interest at the rate of one-half percent
(1/2%) per month. The foregoing penalty and interest provisions shall
apply to surcharges to industrial and commercial users as well as
to the other charges imposed hereby.
Whenever a sewer line is to be tapped in from
a building to any lateral, trunk or interceptor sewer owned, operated
or maintained by the Sanitary Authority, the Sanitary Authority shall
impose a tap-in fee of $100 per premises when the building sewer connection
has already been installed and a tap-in fee of $100 plus direct cost
for labor and materials incurred by the Sanitary Authority when the
building sewer connection is not already installed.
The Council may by resolution designate a person
as the sewer rental collector.
All moneys received by the city from the collection
of charges or rentals herein provided for shall be deposited to the
credit of the city's Sewer Revenue Fund for the purpose of defraying
the expense of the city in the operation, maintenance, repair, alteration,
inspection or other expense in relation to the sanitary sewer system
and for such payments as the city may be required to make under any
lease or agreement for the sanitary sewer system with the Sanitary
Authority.
Procedural matters in connection with the rates
and charges imposed hereby shall be governed by the sewer regulations
of the Sanitary Authority as in effect from time to time and insofar
as the terms thereof are consistent herewith.
The sewer rental charges imposed on owners of
residential, commercial and industrial properties are hereby amended
to exclude any and all properties owned or leased by the city upon
which a sewer rental charge has been imposed both prior to and after
the passage of this Article.
[Added 4-11-1978 by Ord. No. 2-78]
The following industrial cost recovery charges
are hereby also imposed upon all industrial users of the sewer system
of the City of New Kensington Municipal Authority, Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, which shall take effect on April 11, 1978, and shall
be calculated and collected as follows:
A.
In providing the sewer system, a waste collection,
transportation and treatment system which includes contractual provisions
for facilities for the treatment of industrial wastes, either independently
or in conjunction with other wastes, the Authority shall have the
authority and shall collect from such industrial users to which they
are applicable all or any part of the construction costs of such waste
collection and transportation system reasonably attributed to such
industrial wastes. The appointment of such costs shall be equitable
as among industrial users, and such costs shall be collected by periodic
charges in conjunction with the sanitary sewage collection, transportation
and treatment charges imposed hereunder or in such other manner or
combination thereof as in the judgment of the Authority is equitable
and will assure each industrial cost recovery.
B.
Industrial users defined.
(1)
An industrial user hereunder is any nongovernmental
user of the sewer system of the Authority as identified in the Standard
Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget,
as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
(2)
Any industrial user may be excluded if it is determined
that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes or wastes
from sanitary conveniences.
C.
The annual amount to be recovered from each industrial
user shall be predicated on the following formula:
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(A x G) +
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(B x H) +
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(C x I) ÷ J =
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Annual Payment
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D
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E
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F
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($/year) where:
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A = Eligible federal grant allocable to flow
(q), in dollars
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B = Eligible federal grant allocable to BOD,
in dollars
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C = Eligible federal grant allocable to SS,
in dollars
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D = Total design flow (q), in gallons per day
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E = Total design BOD, in pounds per day
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F = Total design SS, in pounds per day
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G = Industrial user's flow discharge to sewer
system, in one gallon per day
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H = Industrial user's BOD discharge to sewer
system, in pounds per day
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I = Industrial user's SS discharge to sewer
system, in pounds per day
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J = Amortization period, 30 years
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D.
For the purpose of computing hereunder the industrial
user's annual payment, a cost recovery period of 30 years is hereby
established.
E.
Any and all sections of the Authority's Sewer System
Rules and Regulations, as adopted and from time to time amended, pertaining
to the determination, measurement, billing and collecting regulations
for industrial wastewater discharges shall be the same hereunder and
in effect as if written herein. Each industrial user shall be billed
monthly on the basis of its computed annual industrial cost recovery
payment divided by 12.
F.
Moneys collected under the industrial cost recovery
charges hereunder shall be deposited into a special account under
its revenue fund entitled "Industrial Cost Recovery Account," which
is hereby established. On an annual basis, 50% of the amounts recovered,
together with interest earned thereon, shall be returned to the United
States Treasury. Of the 50% remaining, together with interest earned
thereon, 80% shall be used for eligible costs for reconstruction and
expansion pursuant to 40 CFR 35.928-2(b) and 20% used as the Authority
sees fit.
G.
Pending use, retained amounts in said Industrial Cost
Recovery Account shall be invested in obligations of the United States
Government or obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest
by the United States Government or any agency thereof, or such amounts
shall be deposited in accounts fully collateralized by obligations
of the United States Government or by obligations fully guaranteed
as to principal and interest by the United States Government or any
agency thereof.
H.
Industrial users shall be reviewed annually by the
Authority for quantity and strength of waste and the industrial cost
recovery charges imposed hereunder adjusted accordingly.
I.
The Authority shall maintain records and submit reports
and financial statements to the Environmental Protection Agency in
conformance with the latest applicable federal regulations.
J.
This Article shall be amended, as necessary, in order
to comply with new or amended federal regulations.
