[CC 1978 §610.042.1]
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 sewer system. The proceeds of such charges so derived
will be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining, and retiring
the debt for such public sewer system.
[CC 1978 §610.042.2]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Chapter of the City ordinances 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 Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams
per liter (mg/l).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than two hundred sixty-four (264) mg/l, a suspended solids concentration of not more than three hundred (300) mg/l, and any other pollutant in concentrations defined in Chapter 705, "Public and Private Sewers", of this Code, or established by the City.
All expenditures during the useful life of the sewer system
for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary
for managing and maintaining the sewer system to achieve the capacity
and performance for which such system was designed and constructed.
Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories,
or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the
sewer system 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 sewer system whose lot, parcel
of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
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, 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 storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
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.
The estimated period (twenty (20) years) during which a sewer
system or equipment 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 sewer system or any portion thereof.
A water volume measuring and recording device furnished and/or
installed by the City of Chaffee or furnished and/or installed by
a user and approved by the City of Chaffee.
[CC 1978 §610.043]
A.
The
purpose of this Chapter is to assure that the user charge system shall
generate adequate annual revenues to pay costs of annual operation,
maintenance and replacement and the costs associated with debt retirement
of bonded capital associated with financing the sewer system which
the City may, by ordinance, designate to be paid by the user charge
rate. This sewer user charge system ordinance further details the
sewer user charge rates and gives illustrations of how those rates
were determined.
B.
That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation, maintenance, and replacement purposes as established in Section 715.040 shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the Operating, 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 sewer system
(Operation and Maintenance Account).
2.
An account designated for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement
needs over the useful life of the sewer system equipment (Depreciation
and 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 nine hundred dollars ($4,900.00)
annually.
C.
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.
[CC 1978 §610.044; Bill No. 2007-14(610.044), 5-7-2007]
A.
Each
user shall pay for the services provided by the City based on his/her
use of the sewer system as determined by water meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
B.
For
residential customers, monthly user charges will be based on water
used during the current billing cycle.
C.
For
industrial and commercial customers, user charges shall be based on
water used during the billing cycle. If a commercial or industrial
customer 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 customer may be based on a wastewater meter or
separate water meter(s) installed and maintained at the customer's
expense and in a manner acceptable to the City. Alternatively, the
City Council of the City of Chaffee may impose a monthly flat rate
sewer charge for an industrial or commercial customer where it is
not feasible or possible to utilize a separate water meter or a wastewater
meter. When the use of a wastewater meter or water meter is not utilized
for determining the sewer user charge and a flat monthly rate is established
by the City Council, the City Council shall review, on at least a
biannual basis, the rate charge for each such industrial or commercial
customer and shall at such time adjust the rate as the City Council
shall deem appropriate under the circumstances of such user. The City
Council may review the rate charged for any such industrial or commercial
customer at any other time as the Council may deem necessary and appropriate
and may at such time adjust the rate as the City Council shall deem
appropriate under the circumstances of such user.
D.
For customers (users) within the City limits of the City of Chaffee,
Missouri, the sewer charge per month shall be sixty cents ($0.60)
per one hundred (100) gallons of water. For those customers (users)
outside the City limits of the City of Chaffee, Missouri, the sewer
charge per month shall be the sum of seventy-four cents ($0.74) per
one hundred (100) gallons of water as applicable.
[1]
Editor's Note: Section 2 of this ordinance provided an
effective date of 6-1-2018.
E.
Sewer Rates For Outside Water Sources. If any occupant or owner of any premises connected to the sewage system of the City of Chaffee shall obtain water partially or exclusively from a source other than the City combined waterworks and sewage system, then said occupant or owner shall pay the same rate for sewer usage as is provided in Subsection (D) of this Section. The amount of water used shall be determined by metering the same through a water consumption metering device installed by the City at the cost of the sewer customer (user). If the sewer user obtains water partially from the City and partially from other sources, that portion of the water obtained from other sources may be metered as above described through a separate meter for purposes of determining the amount of water available for discharge into the sewers. In the absence of such a meter the City may, on recommendation of the Public Works Administrator and with the approval of the City Council, levy a flat rate sewer charge in addition to that determined by the meter where the user obtained water from both the City and an outside source. Said flat rate amount shall be reviewed at least annually and be subject to modification upon recommendation of the Public Works Administrator, City Administrator or other official of the City with the approval of the City Council.
F.
Special Use Rates. Where water is obtained from a source other than
the City combined water works and sewage system, a flat rate as set
forth below for monthly use of the sewer system shall be charged in
addition to any other applicable amounts as required hereinabove.
1.
For customers (users) within the City limits of the City of
Chaffee, Missouri, wherein a beauty shop is in operation, the sewer
charge per month shall be twenty-four dollars ($24.00) per month;
2.
Automobile service station customers, thirty-six dollars ($36.00)
per month;
3.
Automobile washes and laundromats, ninety dollars ($90.00) per
month;
4.
Customers using water as a coolant in connection with air-conditioning
or cooler towers, ninety-four dollars ($94.00) per month;
5.
Customers which are Heavy Industrial (with wastewater with strength
greater than normal domestic sewage), twenty-four cents ($0.24) per
pound BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) and twelve cents ($0.12) per
pounds SS (Suspended Solids).
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Any special use not otherwise provided for in this Title for
sewer service shall be charged a rate for such sewer service as determined
by recommendation of the Public Works Administrator and upon approval
thereof by the City Council. Such rates shall be reviewed at least
annually and adjustment made therein as recommended by the Public
Works Administrator, City Administrator or other official and upon
approval by the City Council.
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Editor's Note: Section 2 of this ordinance provided an
effective date of 6-1-2018.
G.
For
those customers 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 surcharges for operation,
maintenance and replacement are:
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Twelve cents ($0.12) per pound BOD
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Six cents ($0.06) per pound SS
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An amount to be determined per pound for other pollutants.
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H.
Any
user discharging, or proposing to discharge, any toxic pollutant that
will or could increase the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge
from the City's sewer system, or any user discharging 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 determined by the Public Works Administrator
or the City Administrator and upon approval by the City Council.
I.
The
quantity of water used upon any premises furnished with sewer services
by the combined waterworks and sewage system of the City shall be
measured by the water meter or meters servicing the premises. The
Public Works Administrator or other representative of the City shall
have access to the premises of such customer at all reasonable times
for the purpose of inspecting and testing said water meter or meters
and reading the records thereof.
J.
Any
customer who shall be subject to a flat rate established upon approval
by the City Council and who shall object to the rate as established
shall be entitled to a public hearing with the City Council. The customer
shall make his/her objection know in writing by delivering to the
City Clerk a written objection to the flat rate as established by
the City Council. Such written objection must be received by the City
Clerk within ten (10) days from the date of the establishment of such
flat rate by the City Council. Upon the timely receipt of such written
objection, the City Council shall schedule a public hearing for the
complainant at either a regularly scheduled or special meeting of
the City Council. At the hearing the complainant shall be entitled
to present such information to the City Council as the complainant
may deem necessary and proper. Additionally the Public Works Administrator
or City Administrator of the City of Chaffee shall provide information
to the City Council as to the basis for the recommendation and amounts
as requested in the establishment of the flat rate for the complainant.
At the conclusion of the hearing, the Council shall make final determination
as to the flat rate to be imposed.
[CC 1978 §610.045; Bill No. 98-27(610.040), 12-21-1998]
Subsections (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), (K) and (L) of Section 700.220 of the City ordinances of the City of Chaffee shall be applicable to billing requirements and delinquency determinations and disconnection and discontinuance of service for sewage service provided to a customer by the City of Chaffee.
[CC 1978 §610.046]
A.
The
City will review this sewer user charge system ordinance annually
and revise the user charge rates as necessary to ensure that the system
generates adequate revenues to pay the costs of operation, maintenance,
and replacement of any component of the sewer system. During that
review, the City will also ensure that the user charge rates continue
to provide for the proportional distribution of operation, maintenance,
and 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, maintenance,
and replacement of the sewer system.
