[Ord. No. 651 Art I, 8-4-1983]
It is determined and declared to be necessary and conductive
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 collection system. The proceeds of such charges so derived
will be used for the purpose of operating and maintaining the public
wastewater collection system.
[Ord. No. 651 Art. II §§1—11, 8-4-1983]
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 twenty degrees (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter
(mg/l).
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 (300) 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 "Operation
and Maintenance" includes replacement.
Any contributor to the City's Collection System 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 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
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 collection system.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Lake Tapawingo or furnished and/or
installed by a user and approved by the City of Lake Tapawingo.
[Ord. No. 651 Art. III §§1—3, 8-4-1983; Ord. No. 651.1 Art. III §2, 8-22-1985]
A.Â
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.Â
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes as established in Section 715.040, 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.Â
An account designated for the specific purposes of defraying operation
and maintenance costs (excluding replacement) of the treatment works
(Operation and Maintenance Account).
2.Â
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
of four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) annually.
C.Â
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
other 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 adjustment of the user
charge rates for operation, maintenance and replacement. The user
charge rates(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. 651 Art. IV §§1—6, 8-4-1983; Ord. No. 651.4 Art. IV §3, 10-12-1988; Ord. No. 651.5 Art. IV §2, 12-7-1989; Ord. No. 995, 6-6-2019]
A.Â
Each user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on
his/her use of the treatment works as determined by water meter(s)
acceptable to the City.
B.Â
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 will be determined from the BOD, SS, and other pollutants
determined by testing. (Reference is made to Appendix A of this Chapter,
on file in the City offices.)
C.Â
Any user which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase
in the cost of managing the City's sewer system, or any user
which discharges any substance which singly or by interaction with
other substances causes identifiable increases in the cost of operation,
maintenance or replacement of the sewer system shall pay for such
increased costs. The charge to each such user shall be as determined
by the responsible operating personnel and approved by the Board of
Aldermen.
[Ord. No. 651 Art. V §§1—2, 8-4-1983; Ord. No. 900 §6, 8-18-2010]
A.Â
All
users shall be billed monthly. Billings for any particular period
shall be made thirty (30) days after the end of that period. 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.Â
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 an opportunity for a hearing.
