The Utilities Manager may permit the limited construction of water facilities to provide water service in areas where no water service is available, subject to applicable state law. Construction may be accomplished by the applicant's contractor (private contract) where permitted by state law.
(A) The Utilities Manager is authorized to permit construction of water facilities by private contract upon written application. Agreements for construction of water facilities shall provide that all costs are at the sole expense of the applicant except as noted in the agreement.
(1) The facilities will be constructed, at the sole expense and cost of the applicant, within streets, avenues, alleys and rights-of-way pursuant to grants of easements.
(2) Plans for construction will be provided by the applicant, certified by a registered professional engineer, and reviewed and accepted by the Utilities Manager or his/her designee.
(3) With each application for the construction of water facilities authorized by this section, the applicant shall execute and deliver to the Utilities Manager, an agreement for the construction thereof by private contract. If the agreement conforms to the provisions of this chapter, the Utilities Manager will authorize construction of the applicant's water facilities.
(4) The construction of water facilities so authorized will be inspected and tested for water quality and water pressure by the Utilities Manager or his/her designee, and will comply in every respect with the material and installation standard of the Department.
(5) The applicant will be assessed fees for plan review, inspection, and system isolation (for connection of constructed water facilities to the existing system). Plan review fees will be collected upon plan submittal or resubmittal, in accordance with the following schedule:
REVIEW SERVICE
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FEE
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REVIEW SERVICE
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FEE
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Master plan only | ||
First submittal | First sheet | $250 |
Each subsequent sheet | 120 | |
Each re-submittal of plan | 130 | |
Design review only | ||
First submittal | First sheet | 365 |
Each subsequent sheet | 120 | |
First re-submittal of design | First sheet | 130 |
Each subsequent sheet | 60 | |
Each subsequent resubmittal of design | 150 | |
Master plan and design review | ||
First submittal | First sheet | 485 |
Each subsequent sheet | 235 | |
First resubmittal of MP and design | First sheet | 250 |
Each subsequent sheet | 60 | |
Each subsequent resubmittal of MP and design | 150 | |
Plan revision | 140 | |
(6) Construction inspection fees will be collected prior to the Utilities Manager's authorization of construction of applicant's water facility. Fees will be calculated as follows:
(a) Pipeline inspection:
1. Projects of 200 linear feet or less: $345
2. Projects greater than 200 linear feet, per linear foot: $5
3. Other facility inspection (non-pipeline), per facility: $4,005
4. System isolation fee, per pipeline project or facility: $285
(B) The Utilities Manager may require an applicant to install "on-site" or "off-site" water facilities of a size greater than is required to provide service to the applicant's development; provided, however, that the Utilities Manager refund the incremental cost of the oversizing to the applicant. The refund amount for oversized pipelines and valves shall be established by agreement between the applicant and the town. Where field conditions require extraordinary costs, the Utilities Manager may reimburse a share proportionate to the oversizing required by the town. In these situations the applicant shall provide documentation of actual costs incurred.
(C) Every nonparticipating applicant for a connection to a water main installed shall be assessed a fee designed to recover a pro rata share of the initial capital cost of the following:
(1) Minimum size distribution main installation. The fee shall be based on the lineal foot frontage of the subdivision, lot or parcel to be served, as measured along the street, alley or easement right-of-way line to which the connection will be installed.
(2) Water facilities other than distribution mains. The fee shall be calculated and based upon the percentage of nonparticipant's acreage or service connections to the total anticipated service area acreage or number of services possible to be served by the facility and factored against the total cost of the facility's construction. In addition, the applicant shall pay a protected facility service fee of $70, such fee recovering the costs of administering the protected facility program.
(Ord. O2007-09, passed 5-21-07; Am. Ord. O2009-02, passed 3-2-09; Am. Ord. O2011-03, passed 2-7-11; Am. Ord. O2015-07, passed 10-5-15)