[CC 1989 §6-131]
The Mayor and the City's Solid Waste Management Board shall
join with a Board appointed by the City of Carterville, Missouri,
to form a joint Centercreek Wastewater Treatment Board, which said
Board shall be charged with the operation and maintenance of the Centercreek
Wastewater Treatment Works.
[CC 1989 §6-132]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Article 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 twenty degrees Centigrade (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l). (Test shall not utilize nitrification inhibitor.)
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
three hundred (300) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not
more than three hundred fifty (350) mg/l.
All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment
works for materials, labor, utilities, billing, equipment replacement
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 constricted. The term "operation
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 or 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 or 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 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, including waste in combined
stormwater 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 and approved by the City.
[CC 1989 §6-133]
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 Article.
B.
That
portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for
operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes, 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 ensuring replacement
needs over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account).
Deposits in the replacement account shall be made at least annually
from the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount
set forth in Appendix A to this Section which is on file in the City
offices.
3.
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 Fund shall be returned to their respective accounts
upon appropriate adjustments of the user charge rates for operation,
maintenance and replacement. The user charge rate 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.
[CC 1989 §6-134; Ord. No. 6630 §1, 11-11-1991]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on his/her
use of the treatment works as determined by water meters acceptable
to the City.
B.
For
residential contributors, monthly user charges will be based on average
monthly water usage during the months of January, February and March.
If a residential contributor has not established a January, February
and March average, his/her monthly user charge shall be the median
charge of all other residential contributors. 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 or a separate water meter installed
and maintained at the contributor's expense and in a manner acceptable
to the City.
C.
Users living within the corporate limits of the City shall pay a user charge rate for operation and maintenance, including replacement, of an amount set forth in Appendix A (on file in the City offices) per one hundred (100) cubic feet of water used, as determined in Subsection (B).
D.
For
those users 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:
E.
Any
user who 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 who discharges any substance which singly or by
interaction with other substances causes identifiable increases in
the cost of operation, maintenance or replacement of the treatment
works shall pay for such increased costs. The charge to each user
shall be as determined by the responsible plant operating personnel
and approved by the City Council.
F.
The
user charge rates established in this Section apply to all users of
the City's treatment works, regardless of their location.
G.
The
City is hereby given the authority to adjust individual sewer user
fees, by vote of a majority of a quorum at any meeting of the Council,
in the following circumstances subject to the specific limitations
set forth below:
1.
The base for the monthly user charge for a new resident may be increased
(on the Board's own motion) or decreased (at the request of a new
resident) after six (6) months of residency at one (1) address, to
be based on the average monthly water usage for the six (6) months
immediately preceding the adjustment. This is to be a onetime adjustment
for new residents only. New residents are those adult residents of
the City of Webb City who have resided in Webb City for twelve (12)
or fewer consecutive months immediately preceding any request or motion
for adjustment of the base.
2.
A resident who has resided in the City of Webb City for more than
twelve (12) consecutive months prior to making application may obtain
a downward adjustment of his/her base. Such adjusted base will be
computed based on the average monthly water usage by the resident's
household during the three (3) full calendar months immediately preceding
the resident's application. Such an adjustment is only available if
it will result in a decrease by ten percent (10%) or more of the resident's
monthly user charge. No resident may obtain an adjustment under this
Subparagraph more often than once every twelve (12) months.
3.
On motion of the Board, the base for the monthly user charge to a
residential user may be increased if the residential user's average
monthly water usage during the six (6) consecutive calendar months
immediately preceding the motion exceeds the average monthly water
usage used to establish the user's current base by twenty-five percent
(25%) or more. An adjusted base under this Subparagraph shall be calculated
using the average monthly water usage by the residential user for
the three (3) consecutive calendar months immediately preceding the
motion for adjustment.
[CC 1989 §6-135]
A.
All
users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular month shall
be made within thirty (30) days after the end of that month. Payments
are due when the billings are made. Any payment not received within
thirty (30) days after the billing is made shall be delinquent.
B.
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.
[CC 1989 §6-136; Ord. No. 6630 §2, 11-11-1991]
A.
The
City will review the user charge system at least once every calendar
year and revise user charge rates as necessary to ensure 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.
B.
The
City will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with
a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation and maintenance,
including replacement of the treatment works.
[Ord. No. 7086 §1, 1-26-2004; Ord. No. 09-7360 §1, 10-26-2009]
Upon recommendation of the City Administration concerning the
costs and expenses associated with sanitary sewage collection, treatment
and disposal; and the user charge rates necessary to recover those
costs and expenses. The City of Webb City, Missouri, has determined
that it is necessary to increase the monthly charge assessed residential
users, as well as industrial and commercial users, by the City for
sanitary sewage collection, treatment and disposal. The rates charged
by the City of Webb City, Missouri for sewage collection treatment
and disposal are hereby established as set forth below:
Base Rate of twenty-eight dollars ($28.00) per each account.
For Residential Customers the rate will be established at the
April billing based on the average use of the previous three (3) months
(January, February and March) and thence carried throughout the remainder
of the year.
All other customer accounts will be charged based on the water
usage each month. Treatment costs will be $.0045 per gallon usage.
This applies to all accounts.
[1]
Editor's Note—This rate change was required by MoDNR
in the summer of 2010.
