Unless the context indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms used in this chapter are as follows:
1. “Billing agency” means the City of Ankeny Finance Department or any other agency designated by the City to maintain utility customer accounts, read meters, prepare and mail bills or other correspondence, and account for utility payments.
(Ord. 1798 – Apr. 14 Supp.)
2. “EPA” means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
3. “Operation and maintenance” means all expenditures during the useful life of the wastewater treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for the management and maintenance of said treatment facilities to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
4. “Replacement” means expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the wastewater treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such facilities were designed and constructed. The term “operation and maintenance” includes replacement.
5. “Residential customer” means any customer whose lot, parcel of real estate or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
6. “Service availability charge” means a fixed charge imposed on each separately metered residential, commercial, industrial, or educational premises which is physically connected to the utility, consisting of the equivalent meter cost, based on the water meter size, or the size of a wastewater meter, if installed, plus the billing cost.
7. “Useful life” means the estimated period during which the wastewater treatment works will be operated.
8. “User charge” means 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.
9. “Wastewater” means the spent water of a community. From the standpoint of source, it may be a combination of the liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions, together with any groundwater, surface water, and storm water that may be present. Wastewater is also commonly known as “sanitary sewage.”
10. “Wastewater treatment works” means the devices and systems used for the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of municipal wastewater, domestic wastewater, or liquid industrial wastes. These include the collecting lateral, trunk, interceptor and outfall sewer systems, pumping, power and other equipment and 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 used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment; or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treatment, separating or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
(Ord. 1656 – Apr. 10 Supp.)
11. “Water meter” means a water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by the City or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the City.