[Ord. No. 3645 §1, 12-29-2009]
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 use the City's water
system. The proceeds of such charges so derived will be used for the
purpose of operating, maintaining and retiring the debt for such public
water system.
[Ord. No. 3645 §2, 12-29-2009]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
- All expenditures during the useful life of the system for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the system to achieve the capacity and performance for which system was designed and constructed.
- REPLACEMENT
- Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the system to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term "operation and maintenance" includes replacement.
- RESIDENTIAL USER
- Any user of the City's water system whose lot, parcel of real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
- SHALL
- Is mandatory; MAY: Is permissive.
- USEFUL LIFE
- The estimated period during which the treatment works will be operated.
- USER CHARGE
- That portion of the total water service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the water system.
- WATER METER
- A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by the City of Ste. Genevieve or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City of Ste. Genevieve.
- WATER SYSTEM
- Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, transmission and distribution of water. These include transmission and distribution lines, individual systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable water supply such as standby treatment units and any works, including site acquisition of land that will be part of the treatment process.
- WINTER AVERAGE USE
- Average of winter quarter (Dec., Jan., Feb.).
[Ord. No. 3645 §3, 12-29-2009]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay
the costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement
and cost associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the water system 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 water system shall be established by this ordinance.
B.
That
portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for
the operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established
in Article IV, shall be deposited in the Water Fund #030. Funds are
set aside in the Water Fund Budget (FY 2010) annually for the operation,
maintenance and replacement needs over the useful life of the treatment
works. Deposits are made weekly into this fund.
C.
Fiscal
year-end balances in the Operation and Maintenance Account and the
Replacement Account shall be carried over to the same accounts in
each 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 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. 3645 §4, 12-29-2009; Ord. No. 3756 §§1 — 2, 9-22-2011; Ord. No. 3824 §1, 9-13-2012; Ord. No. 3833 §1, 10-25-2012; Ord.
No. 4259, 12-12-2019]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on their
use of the water system as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
B.
All
monthly user charges will be based on monthly water usage at the following
rates:
1.
The minimum charge for water customers inside the City limits shall
be six dollars eighty-one cents ($6.81) per month. In addition each
customer shall pay a user unit charge of operation and maintenance
including replacement of $0.05792 per cubic feet of water. For all
water customers outside City limits that do not have a contractual
agreement with the City of Ste. Genevieve the water rate shall be
two (2) times the rates for those living within the City limits. A
customer that has one (1) meter that serves multiple dwelling units
shall be charged the minimum six dollars eighty-one cents ($6.81)
times the number of units, plus the operation and maintenance including
replacement fee of $0.05792 per cubic feet of water. The user charge
rates established in this Article shall apply to all users of the
City of Ste. Genevieve system regardless of the user's location.
2.
The following special rates for monthly water usage shall apply to
all companies and/or industries that have a contractual arrangement
with the City of Ste. Genevieve to provide lime for the municipal
water system. A fee of five dollars eighty-seven cents ($5.87) per
one thousand (1,000) gallons ($0.04388/cubic feet) shall be charged
on a monthly basis.
[Ord. No. 3645 §4, 12-29-2009]
A.
All Users Shall Be Billed Monthly. All water bills shall
be due and payable on the fifteenth (15th) of the month and shall
become delinquent on the sixteenth (16th) of the month. If any bill
rendered by the City is not paid by the end of sail month, the City
may discontinue services to said customer. When service is disconnected
due to non-payment, the total amount of the outstanding bill, plus
applicable reconnection charges shall be paid before the service is
reconnected.
B.
A late
payment penalty of fifteen percent (15%) of the user charge bill will
be added to each delinquent bill for each fifteen (15) days of delinquency.
When any bill is thirty (30) days in default, water service to such
premises shall be discontinued until such bill is paid following due
notice and opportunity for hearing. Reconnection fees shall be paid
by the customer.
[Ord. No. 3645 §4, 12-29-2009]
A.
The
City of Ste. Genevieve shall review the user charge system annually
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 of Ste. Genevieve 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. 3647 §1, 12-29-2009]
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
shall be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining and retiring
the debt for such public wastewater treatment works.
[CC 1985 §22-37; Ord. No. 2400 Art. II, 7-17-1984; Ord. No. 3647 §2, 12-29-2009]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
- BOD (DENOTING BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
- 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).
- NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
- 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.
- OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
- 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.
- REPLACEMENT
- 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.
- RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR
- Any contributor to the City's treatment works whose lot, parcel of real estate or building is used for domestic dwellings purposes only.
- SS (DENOTING SUSPENDED SOLIDS)
- 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.
- TREATMENT WORKS
- Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage or liquid industrial wastes. These include interceptor sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions, improvements, 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 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 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.
- USEFUL LIFE
- The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
- USER CHARGE
- 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.
- WATER METER
- A water volume measuring and recording device furnished or installed by the City or furnished or installed by the City of Ste. Genevieve or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City of Ste. Genevieve.
[Ord. No. 3647 §3, 12-29-2009]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay
the costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement
and cost associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the treatment works 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 the operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in Section 715.140 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.
The operation and maintenance account shall be an account designated
for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance costs
(excluding replacement) of the treatment works. Deposits in the operation
and maintenance account shall be made annually from the operation
and maintenance revenue in the amount of $396,406.98 (Total Expenses
$502,145.98 — Replacement Costs of $12,500.00 — Debt Service
Costs of $93,239.00 = $396,406.98)
2.
The replacement account shall be an account designated for the specific
purpose of defraying operation and maintenance costs (excluding replacement)
of the treatment works. Deposits in the operation and maintenance
account shall be made annually from the operation and maintenance
revenue in the amount of twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500.00)
annually.
[Ord. No. 3647 §3, 12-29-2009]
A.
The
City of Ste. Genevieve shall review the user charge system annually
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. 3647 §5, 12-29-2009; Ord. No. 3727 §2, 4-14-2011; Ord. No. 3755 §1, 9-22-2011; Ord. No. 3825 §1, 9-13-2012]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on their
use of the treatment works as determined by water meter(s) 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.
(Water usage for these months includes little use for such activities
as lawn watering, car washing and other seasonal consumptive uses.
The winter quarter average should not be used in areas that experience
large seasonal fluctuations in population and/or usage.) If a residential
contributor has not established a January, February, and March average,
their monthly bill shall be the median charge of all other residential
contributors.
C.
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 wastewater meter(s)
or separate water meter(s) installed and maintained at the contributor's
expense and in a manner acceptable to the City.
D.
The
minimum charge for sewer service per customer shall be at least eight
dollars sixteen cents ($8.16) per month. In addition each customer
shall pay a user charge for operation and maintenance including replacement
of at least four dollars ninety-two cents ($4.92) per one thousand
(1,000) gallons of water or $0.0367/per cubic feet. A customer that
has one (1) meter that serves multiple dwelling units shall be charged
by taking the number of units times the minimum rate of eight dollars
sixteen cents ($8.16) plus the operation and maintenance including
replacement fee of four dollars ninety-two cents ($4.92) per one thousand
(1,000) gallons of water or $0.0367/per cubic feet.
[Ord. No. 4260, 12-12-2019]
E.
For
those contributors which contribute wastewater, the strength of which
is greater than normal domestic sewage, a surcharge in addition to
the normal user charge will be collected. The surcharge for operation
and maintenance including replacement is:
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$ .549598 per pound of BOD
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$ .549598 per pound of SS
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F.
Any
user which discharge 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 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 Board of Aldermen.
G.
The
user charge rates established in this Section shall apply to all users
of the City's treatment works regardless of the user's location.
[Ord. No. 3647 §6, 12-29-2009]
A.
All
users shall be billed monthly. All sewer bills shall be due and payable
on the fifteenth (15th) of the month and shall become delinquent on
the sixteenth (16) of the month. If any bill rendered by the City
is not paid by the end of said month, the City may discontinue services
to such customer. When service is disconnected due to non-payment,
the total amount of the outstanding bill, plus applicable reconnection
charges, shall be paid before the service is rendered.
B.
A late
payment penalty of fifteen percent (15%) of the user charge bill will
be added to each delinquent bill for each fifteen (15) 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 of hearing.
