The mayor and city council shall determine and set all applicable fees and charges for use of the sewer system. This chapter supplants and replaces resolution 240 and amendments thereto. The city currently does not have the technology or ability to measure each class's exact use of the sewer system. Therefore, the rates are based on an estimate of each class's contribution or potential contribution to the loading of the sewer system. A multiplier is assigned to each class pursuant to the table set forth below. The multiplier is not based solely on the amount of water used and discharged into the system, but rather, takes into consideration other factors such as the estimated amount of BODs, CODs, suspended solids, and other contaminates that may be discharged into the system by the various classes of users, and the estimated number and types of users under each classification. To determine the monthly sewer charge, the multiplier (or equivalent residential unit, as it is sometimes called) is multiplied by the rate set from time to time by the city council by resolution or ordinance. The chart below may also be used in determining the sewer availability fee for new users to the system, regardless of the pipe size or number of connections to the city's sewerage system.
Classification | Equivalent Residential Unit |
Classification | Equivalent Residential Unit | ||
Assembly hall or auditorium, no food service, per each: | |||
200 seats | 1.00 | ||
Additional for bar/food service | See food and beverage service | ||
Automotive service (without car wash): | 1.00 | ||
Convenience store: treat separately as retail store | |||
Fuel and bathroom only: add per pump island over 4 | 0.25 | ||
Full service: add per each pump island or stall over 4 | 0.25 | ||
Repair only: add per stall over 4 | 0.25 | ||
Bowling alley (with first 3 lanes): | 1.00 | ||
Additional per lane over 3 | 0.20 | ||
Additional for bar/food service | See food and beverage service | ||
Business for each 4,000 square feet (no food prep): | 1.00 | ||
Apparel and accessories | |||
Bank or savings and loan | |||
Business office (individual restroom facilities, per office) | |||
Business office (shared restroom facilities) | |||
Car dealer (less wash bays or repair shop): | 1.00 | ||
Additional per repair stall | 0.25 | ||
Additional per wash bay | 0.25 | ||
Department and retail | |||
Drugstore | |||
Durable goods | |||
Florist | |||
Grocery (without resident butcher or baker): | |||
Add for resident butcher and/or baker | 1.00 | ||
Miscellaneous retail foods (no food or beverage processing) | 1.00 | ||
Hardware | |||
Lumberyard, hardware or gardening sales | |||
Nursery or greenhouse | |||
Physical therapy | |||
Post office | |||
Tire store | |||
Campsite ground: | 1.00 | ||
Add for each campsite over 4 with sewer hookup | 0.20 | ||
Add for on site restrooms/showers | 1.00 | ||
Add for RV dump | 4.00 | ||
Car wash per bay: | |||
Self-service | 1.50 | ||
Automatic with recycled water | 1.50 | ||
Automatic without recycled water | 2.00 | ||
Pet wash - self-service | 1.00 | ||
Churches: | |||
With kitchen per congregation | 2.00 | ||
Without kitchen per congregation | 1.50 | ||
Club, or lodge: | |||
With kitchen: for each 75 general membership | 1.00 | ||
Without kitchen: for each 100 general membership | 1.00 | ||
Additional for bar | See food and beverage service | ||
Commercial warehouse or storage unit for each 12,500 square feet | 1.00 | ||
Food and beverage service (fire occupancy load): | 1.00 | ||
Bar/lounge: add per each 20 over 20 | 0.50 | ||
Restaurant: for each over 20 | 0.05 | ||
Gym, spa, or fitness center: | |||
With showers per 100 members | 1.00 | ||
Without shower per 200 members | 1.00 | ||
Health practitioner (doctor, dentist (wet chair), chiropractor, specialist): | |||
For up to 3 chairs or exam rooms | 1.00 | ||
For each chair or exam room over 3 | 0.25 | ||
Hotel or motel: | 1.00 | ||
Additional per unit with kitchen over 2 | 0.50 | ||
Additional per unit without kitchen over 3 | 0.33 | ||
Industrial use: | |||
Per each 16 employees | 1.00 | ||
With showers per each 12 employees | 1.00 | ||
With showers and cafeteria per each 10 employees | 1.00 | ||
Add industrial process wastewater | As per IWA | ||
Institutional: | 1.00 | ||
Assisted living additional per bed over 2 | 0.40 | ||
Daycare: per 20 children over 20 | 1.00 | ||
Hospital additional per bed over 1 | 0.80 | ||
Jail: add per each bed over 2 | 0.50 | ||
Nursing home additional per bed over 2 | 0.40 | ||
School without cafeteria or showers: per 40 students over 40 | 1.00 | ||
School with cafeteria: per 30 students over 30 | 1.00 | ||
School with showers: per 30 students over 30 | 1.00 | ||
School with cafeteria and showers: per 25 students over 25 | 1.00 | ||
Laundry: | |||
Self-service up to 5 machines | 2.00 | ||
Additional per machine over 5 | 0.20 | ||
Commercial per machine | 1.00 | ||
Personal care services: | 1.00 | ||
Barber: add per station over 4 | 0.20 | ||
Pet groomer: add per station over 2 | 0.60 | ||
Salon: add per station over 2 | 0.40 | ||
Photo lab, printing shop | 2.00 | ||
Residential units: | 1.00 | ||
Apartment per dwelling unit | |||
Condominium per living unit | |||
Duplex per dwelling unit | |||
Fourplex per dwelling unit | |||
Mobile home or trailer park, per space | |||
Single-family dwelling | |||
With business additional (if business type is in this chart) | 1.00 | ||
This table, along with applicable charges per multiplier or equivalent residential unit may be amended from time to time by resolution of the city council. Commercial users not included in the table shall be considered to be industrial users and shall be charged rates based on applicable industrial waste agreements. Any of the users in the table may be classified as industrial users if information on their contribution flow and/or strength indicates a need to do so. A single user having more than one classification of use shall be the sum of the fees. The minimum monthly sewer charge shall be one equivalent residential unit. A reassessment of each commercial user will be completed at a minimum of once every five (5) years. Within thirty (30) days of notice of assessment, a user may appeal the assessment to the mayor in writing setting forth the reasons for the appeal and articulating why the assessment is being disputed. The mayor shall have thirty (30) days to review the appeal and recommend to the department head that the assessment stand or be amended. The department head or the user shall have thirty (30) days to appeal the mayor's recommendation to the city council. If neither party appeals the mayor's recommendation, then such recommendation shall become the effective assessment until such user is reassessed pursuant to the assessment schedule of the department. (Ord. 2122, 5-6-2014)