(a) User charges shall be the sum of the following charges:
(1) Fixed charges shall be based on costs associated with regional ground water infiltration/ inflow (I/I) and costs of operating and maintaining monitoring stations.
(2) Demand charges shall be based on the peak month discharge of the billable parameters during the fiscal year. Each subscribing agency and the City shall submit established peak month loadings of the billable parameters two months prior to the beginning of each fiscal year. If the estimated demand is exceeded, the agency or City shall be billed the demand unit rate multiplied by the new peak month discharge. This amount shall be assessed retroactively to the beginning of the fiscal year and for each month through the remainder of the fiscal year. If the estimated demand is not reached by the end of the fiscal year, the subscribing agency or City shall be credited an amount equal to the difference of the demand charges paid and the peak month discharge multiplied by tile demand unit rate.
(3) Loading charges shall be based on the quantity of billing parameters discharged during the billing period.
(b) Demand charges shall not be assessed under either of the following conditions:
(1) New connections to the City sewer shall only be assessed demand charges for the balance of the current fiscal year and for each subsequent fiscal year. New connections shall not be assessed demand charges retroactively to the beginning of the current fiscal year.
(2) Demand charges shall not be assessed for "act of God" accidental discharges by the City or a subscribing agency. Accordingly, no such "act of God" accidental discharge shall be included in the determination of peak month flow on which flow demand charges are based.
(Ord. 14-01. Passed 10-16-01.)