(A) All users of the sewerage system shall be assessed a monthly service charge that incorporates all debt service, depreciation, operation, maintenance and repair expenses required to provide sewer service. All flow charges shall be based on water meter readings.
(B) High volume industrial users may request approval for flow measuring and recording devices installed in control manholes. Those industrial users shall be assessed flow charges on the basis of measured wastewater flow. Metering devices, their location, calibration, etc. must be approved by the city in accordance with industrial user permit requirements and conditions of this section. Approval is made on a case by case basis that meet at least one of the criteria listed below. The city may require a sewer flow measuring device in instances described in subsection (1) or (3) below.
(1) The industrial user does not use potable water in its process and thus discharges more water to the sewer system than it purchases.
(2) The industrial user uses over 1,000,000 gallons of potable water per month but discharges less than 50% of the water to the sanitary sewer system.
(3) The industrial user has large permitted outdoor sewer treatment facilities that allow stormwater to enter the sewer system thus discharging more volume of water to the sewer system than it purchases.
(Ord. 477, passed 7-24-91; Am. Ord. 584, passed 5-23-95; Am. Ord. 628, passed 6-24-97; Am. Ord. 650, passed 6-23-98, Am. Ord. 669, passed 6-22-99; Am. Ord. B2006-11, passed 6-6-06; Am. Ord. B2018-02, passed 3-6-18; Am. Ord. B2021-10, passed 8-24-21)