[CC 1996 §710.120; Ord. No. 671 Art. I, 2-7-1983]
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
will be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining and retiring
the debt for such public wastewater treatment works.
[CC 1996 §710.130; Ord. No. 671 Art. II §§1 — 11, 2-7-1983]
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).
Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than
two hundred four (204) mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of
not more than two hundred forty (240) 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 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 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, 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 the land, that will be
an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate
disposal of residues resulting from such treatment; 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 by the City of Bowling Green or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Bowling Green.
[CC 1996 §710.140; Ord. No. 671 Art. III §§1 — 3, 2-7-1983; Ord.
No. 1373 §I, 9-22-2003]
A.
The
user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay
costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement and
costs 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 operation and maintenance including replacement purposes as established in Section 710.150 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 insuring 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 fourteen thousand four hundred ninety-one dollars sixty cents ($14,491.60)
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 shortage 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.
[CC 1996 §710.150; Ord. No. 671 Art. IV §§1 — 6, 2-7-1983; Ord. No. 909 §§I — II, 11-30-1994; Ord. No. 1373 §III, 9-22-2003; Ord.
No. 1430 §I, 5-17-2004; Ord. No. 1579 §III, 12-17-2007; Ord. No. 1609 §IV, 9-22-2008; Ord. No. 1641 §IV, 9-24-2009; Ord.
No. 1663 §IV, 9-20-2010; Ord. No. 1703 §IV, 9-27-2012]
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 meter(s) acceptable
to the City.
B.
For residential, industrial and commercial contributors, monthly
user charges shall be based on water used during the current billing
period.
[Ord. No. 1884, 12-17-2018]
C.
The minimum charge per billing period shall be nine dollars and twenty-six cents ($9.26). In addition, each contributor shall pay a user charge rate for operation and maintenance including replacement of eleven dollars and twelve cents ($11.12) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water as determined in the preceding Section. The charges shall be revised from time to time in accordance with Section 710.180.
[Ord. No. 1765 §IV, 9-15-2014; Ord. No. 1790 §IV, 9-30-2015; Ord. No. 1813 §IV, 9-19-2016; Ord. No. 1851 § IV, 9-18-2017; Ord. No. 1882, 9-27-2018; Ord. No. 1913, 9-24-2020; Ord. No. 1943, 9-28-2021; Ord.
No. 1970, 9-19-2022; Ord. No. 1986, 9-18-2023]
D.
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 including replacement is seventeen cents ($0.17) per pound BOD; fifteen cents ($0.15) per pound SS. These charges shall be revised from time to time in accordance with Section 710.180.
E.
Any
user which 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 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.
F.
The
user charge rates established in the Article apply to all users, regardless
of their location, of the City's treatment works.
G.
Upon
a determination by Alliance Water Resources, Inc., or other successor
entity after a work order is completed for inspection of a utility
customer's water usage, it being determined that a water leak occurred,
the customer may request abatement of a portion of their sewer use
charge based on the prior three (3) months' charge without the water
leak. No abatement shall be permitted which appears to involve the
use of swimming pools or the watering of lawns. Any abatement must
be recommended by Alliance Water Resources, Inc., or its successor
entity and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
[Ord. No. 1351 §I, 5-19-2003; Ord. No. 1576 §III, 11-20-2007; Ord. No. 1579 §IV, 12-17-2007; Ord. No. 1609 §V, 9-22-2008; Ord.
No. 1641 §V, 9-24-2009; Ord. No. 1663 §V, 9-20-2010; Ord.
No. 1703 §V, 9-27-2012]
A.
The
City may permit individual residential users only located outside
the corporate boundaries of the City to connect, at their sole expense,
to an existing City sewer where main located within the City limits
at a location to be determined by the City as long as the City determines
such usage is compatible with the City-wide system, the sewer system
of the City has existing capacity to handle such sewage disposal and
all materials and labor provided by such user meets or exceeds the
minimum specifications established by the City. Sewer tap fees shall
be double that for sewer taps inside the City of Bowling Green, Missouri.
B.
The minimum charge per billing shall be ten dollars and ninety-one cents ($10.91). In addition, there shall be a user charge rate for operation and maintenance of fifteen dollars and two cents ($15.02) per one thousand (1,000) gallons of water used at such location. The charges shall be revised from time to time in accordance with Section 710.180.
[Ord. No. 1765 §V, 9-15-2014; Ord. No. 1790 §V, 9-30-2015; Ord. No. 1813 §V, 9-19-2016; Ord. No. 1851 § V, 9-18-2017; Ord. No. 1882, 9-27-2018; Ord. No. 1913, 9-24-2020; Ord. No. 1943, 9-28-2021; Ord.
No. 1970, 9-19-2022; Ord. No. 1986, 9-18-2023]
[CC 1996 §710.160; Ord. No. 671 Art. V §§1 — 2, 2-7-1983; Ord. No. 676 §1, 4-4-1983; Ord. No. 1235 §II, 8-20-2001]
All fees presented to customers of the City sewer service shall
be due and payable at the office of the City Collector at City Hall.
All monthly billing shall be due and payable on or before the tenth
(10th) day of the month for each month of the calendar year for the
previous month's usage as billed.
[CC 1996 §710.170; Ord. No. 671 Art. VI §§1 — 2, 2-7-1983; Ord. No. 1373 §V, 9-22-2003]
A.
The
City will review the user charge system at least every one (1) year
and revise user charge rates as necessary to insure 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 for the rate being charged
for operation, maintenance, including replacement of the treatment
works.
[CC 1996 §710.180; Ord. No. 1373 §VI, 9-22-2003]
The actual use rate structure shall be calculated in accordance
with Appendix A, Appendix B and Appendix C on file in the City offices.
[CC 1996 §710.185; Ord. No. 997 §V, 11-7-1996; Ord. No. 1129 §V, 11-8-1999; Ord.
No. 1169 §V, 10-16-2000; Ord. No. 1320 §V, 9-23-2002; Ord.
No. 1371 §V, 9-22-2003; Ord. No. 1439 §II, 7-26-2004; Ord.
No. 1488 §II, 8-15-2005; Ord. No. 1537 §II, 9-18-2006; Ord.
No. 1572 §II, 9-17-2007; Ord. No. 1601 §II, 6-25-2008; Ord.
No. 1629 §II, 5-27-2009; Ord. No. 1674 §II, 7-18-2011; Ord.
No. 1732 §II, 7-15-2013; Ord. No. 1755 §II, 7-21-2014; Ord. No. 1887, 2-25-2019]
A.
The rates for wastewater service to the State of Missouri at the
facility known as the "Northeast Correctional Center (NECC)" shall
be as follows:
1.
Basic wastewater service (operation and maintenance), a minimum
bill shall be $1.83 per one thousand gallons used, for two hundred
sixty thousand. (260,000) gallons per day figured on a monthly basis
and for all water use exceeding the minimum up to three hundred ninety-five
thousand (395,000) gallons per day.
