(a) The Village does hereby establish an industrial cost recovery system for the purpose of recovering, by the Village, from industrial users of the Village wastewater treatment facilities, each industrial user's share of the Federal grant amount allocable to the treatment of waste from such users; and from commercial users of individual systems, each such user's share of the Federal grant amount allocable to the treatment of waste from such user.
(b) The strength of the average residential waste discharge, having been established in Section 925.02(c), shall be applied in determining equivalent volumes of process waste or combined discharges of sanitary and process wastes for the purposes of industrial cost recovery.
(c) The Approving Authority of the Village shall determine the identity of industrial users of the Village wastewater treatment facilities by:
(1) Conducting, initially and on an annual basis, a review of the accounts of Village water users whose metered water supply records indicate that 25,000 gallons per day, or more, of water is drawn by such user.
(2) Inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing, initially and on an annual basis, determine the volumes of flow and equivalent volumes of process waste or combined discharges of sanitary and process waste contribution of such industrial users.
(d) Those persons determined to be industrial users, under the provisions of these regulations, shall be required to participate in the industrial cost recovery program.
(e) The Village industrial cost recovery program shall be in full force and effect for a period equal to thirty years or to the useful life of the treatment facilities, whichever is less.
(f) Except as otherwise provided by the Act, those industries required to participate in the Village's industrial cost recovery program shall be required to make payment to such program no less often than annually. The first payment by an industrial user shall be made not later than one year after the user begins use of the treatment facilities.
(g) Those industrial users entering into an agreement with the Village to reserve a certain capacity in the treatment facilities, shall make industrial cost recovery payments based on the total reserved capacity in relation to the design capacity of such facilities. If the discharge of an industrial user exceeds the reserved capacity in volume, strength or delivery flow rate characteristics, the user's industrial cost recovery payment shall be increased to reflect the actual use of the treatment facilities. If there is no agreement between the industrial user and the Village regarding reserve capacity, and there is a substantial change in the strength, volume or delivery flow rate characteristics of an industrial user's discharge, such user's share shall be adjusted proportionately.
(h) If there is an upgrading of the treatment facilities, each existing industrial user's share shall be adjusted proportionately.
(i) If there is an expansion of the treatment facilities, each industrial user's share shall be adjusted proportionately, except that a user with reserved capacity under subsection (g) hereof, shall incur no additional industrial cost recovery charge unless the user's actual use exceeds its reserved capacity.
(j) The basis of design for each unit operation and the cost identified with each unit of operation shall form the basis of the industrial cost recovery charges. The major unit operation and basis of design are identified as:
Design Parameter | Process Unit(s) |
Flow | Grit chamber - chlorination - flow cascade - effluent pumps |
Solids | Comminution - sludge pumping - digesters |
Solids identified as grit | Grit conveyor and handling |
Flow and solids | Primary setting |
Organic and nitrogen loading | RBC tanks and aeration equipment |
Flow and phosphate removal | Tertiary sand filters - secondary setting |
Flows, solids and organics | Control building laboratory |
The remaining capital expenditures not identified under a major unit process shall be proportioned in the same ratios as the totals for the major unit processes. The industries' industrial cost recovery charge shall then be calculated on the basis of its contribution of each of the three design parameters (flow, BOD and SS) multiplied by the parameter's unit cost. Such calculations supportive of the industrial cost recovery charge shall be filed at the office of the Mayor.
(Ord. 1979-5. Passed 5-14-79.)