[R.O. 2008 §710.100; Ord. No. 397 Art I, 1-8-1990]
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 sewerage system. The proceeds of such charges so
derived will be used for the purpose of operating, maintaining, improving,
expanding and retiring the debt for such public sewerage system and
wastewater treatment works.
[R.O. 2008 §710.110; Ord. No. 397 Art. II §§1 — 12, 1-8-1990]
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 milligram
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 fifty (350) 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.
A system of sewers, pumping stations and force mains for
the delivery of sewage to the wastewater treatment works.
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 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 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.
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 sewerage system and wastewater
treatment works.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Ironton or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Ironton.
[R.O. 2008 §710.120; Ord. No. 397 Art. III §§1 — 3, 1-8-1990]
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 sewerage system and 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 for the Wastewater Treatment Plant as established in Section 400.040, shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the "Wastewater Treatment Plant 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 wastewater treatment plant (Wastewater Treatment Plant Operation
and Maintenance Account).
2.
An account designated for the specific purpose
of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the wastewater
treatment plant (Wastewater Treatment Plant Replacement Account).
Deposits into this replacement account shall be made at least annually,
from the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount
of sixteen thousand five hundred sixty dollars ($16,560.00) annually.
Deposits to the replacement account shall begin in the calendar year
following completion of construction of the improvements to the treatment
works shown on plans prepared in 1989 by Crawford, Murphy & Tilly,
Inc., Consulting Engineers. Money deposited in this account for a
given calendar year shall have been paid by the City of Ironton, and
by the City of Pilot Knob in proportion to the water sold to their
sewer customers during the previous calendar year. The basis for the
amounts to be deposited in the replacement account is shown in Appendix
B of Ordinance No. 397, which is on file in the City Clerk's
office.
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 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.
[R.O. 2008 §710.130; Ord. No. 397 Art. IV §§1 — 6, 1-8-1990]
B.
(Reference is made to Appendix A of this Article, which
is on file in the City Clerk's office.) For those contributors
who contribute wastewater, the strength of which is greater than normal
domestic sewage [that having a BOD greater than three hundred (300)
mg/l and/or a SS greater than three hundred fifty (350) mg/l], a surcharge
in addition to the normal user charge will be collected. The surcharge
for operation and maintenance including replacement is:
C.
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 such user shall be as determined by the responsible plant
operating personnel and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
D.
The user charge rates established in this Article apply
to all users, regardless of their location, of the City's treatment
works.
[R.O. 2008 §710.140; Ord. No. 397 Art. VI §§1 — 2, 1-8-1990]
A.
The City will review the user charge system at least every
two (2) years, 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 debt service, 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, maintenance,
including replacement and debt service, of the sewerage system and
treatment works.
[R.O. 2008 §720.010; Ord. No. 547 §1, 2-26-2007]
It is determined to be necessary and conducive to the protection
of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience of the City
of Ironton 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.
[R.O. 2008 §720.020; Ord. No. 547 §2, 2-26-2007]
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this Article shall be as follows:
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.
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.
Any user of the City's water system whose lot, parcel
of real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes
only.
Is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
The estimated period during which the treatment works will
be operated.
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.
A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished
and/or installed by the City of Ironton or furnished and/or installed
by a user and approved by the City of Ironton.
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.
[R.O. 2008 §720.030; Ord. No. 547 §3, 2-26-2007]
A.
The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues
to pay the costs of annual operation and maintenance including replacement
and costs associated with debt retirement of bonded capital associated
with financing the water system which the Board of Aldermen 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
ordinance.
B.
That portion of the total user charge collected which is
designated for the 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.
The operation and maintenance account shall be
an account designated for the specific purpose of defraying operation
and maintenance costs (excluding replacement) of the water system.
Deposits in the operation and maintenance account shall be made monthly.
2.
The replacement account shall be an account designated
for the purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life
of the water system. Deposits in the replacement account shall be
made monthly from the replacement revenue in the amount of one thousand
four hundred fifty dollars ($1,450.00). The basis for the amounts
to be deposited in the replacement account is shown in Appendix C
of Ordinance No. 546, which is on file in the City Clerk's office.
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.
[R.O. 2008 §720.040; Ord. No. 547 §4, 2-26-2007]
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.
C.
The Board of Aldermen shall periodically establish, by
ordinance, user rates for the water system. A minimum charge shall
be established to cover the system's overhead costs, fixed costs
and debt service attributable to fixed costs. An additional charge
rate shall be established, based on metered usage in one-thousand-gallon
increments, for operation and maintenance costs, as well as debt service
attributable to volume.
[R.O. 2008 §720.050; Ord. No. 547 §5, 2-26-2007]
A.
Bills for the rates and charges herein established shall
be made out by the City Water and Sewer Department Clerk and shall
be sent out monthly. The bills shall be payable on the first day of
the month following the reading of the meter. All bills shall be payable
at the City Water and Sewer Department. Any payment not received within
fifteen (15) days after the billing is made shall be delinquent.
B.
If any charge for the services of the water system shall
not be paid by the 15th day of the month in which it shall become
due and payable, a delayed payment charge of ten percent (10%) of
the amount of the bill shall be added thereto and collected therewith.
When any bill is twenty (20) days in default, water service to such
premises is subject to disconnection. Reconnection fees shall be paid
by the customer.
[R.O. 2008 §720.060; Ord. No. 547 §6, 2-26-2007]
A.
The City 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.
