For the use and the service rendered by the town works, rates, and charges shall be collected from the owners of each and every lot, parcel of real estate or building that is, or will be, connected with the town’s sanitary sewer system or otherwise discharges sanitary sewage, industrial wastes, water, or other liquids, either directly or indirectly, into the sanitary sewer system of the town, which rates and charges shall be payable as hereinafter provided and shall be in an amount determinable as follows:
(A) (1) The rates and charges shall be based and determined in accordance with the following classification schedule, except as herein otherwise provided:
User Classification | Monthly Sewer Rate |
User Classification | Monthly Sewer Rate |
Residences, apartments, and other dwelling quarters, mobile home courts | $48.00 per dwelling unit |
Professional offices, governmental offices, banks, utilities | $51.15 for the first two employees, and $16.10 for each employee over two |
Nursing home | $16.10 per patient bed available for occupancy |
Churches and other religious bodies. Also, lodges and veterans organizations without eating or drinking facilities | $51.15 per establishment |
Shop in residence | $100.80 for residence and shop |
Motels, rooming houses, church camps, and similar establishments | $16.10 per room available for occupancy and not less than $5.45 per bed |
Retail establishments under 50,000 square feet total space, drive-in eating establishments, restaurants, and organizations with eating or drinking facilities and gasoline service stations | $51.15 for the first two employees and $16.10 for each employee over two |
Retail establishments in excess of 50,000 sq. feet total space, theaters, bowling centers, industrial users of 30,000 or less sq. feet building, schools, bulk washeterias, car wash facilities, hospitals, hotels, monasteries, religious retreats, taverns, golf courses and resorts | Based upon water used and returned to the sewage plant for treatment as specified in the rate schedule |
Industrial/manufacturing operations over 30,000 square feet | $146.10 per month and bulk metered rate as specified in the rate schedule. |
Monthly Metered Rate Schedule | |
Gallons Used Per Month | Per Thousand Gallons |
Monthly Metered Rate Schedule | |
Gallons Used Per Month | Per Thousand Gallons |
First 20,000 | $13.15 |
Next 30,000 | 10.85 |
Next 150,000 | 9.18 |
Next 300,000 | 7.31 |
Over 500,000 | 5.84 |
Subject to minimum monthly charge of $102.25 | |
(2) In the event the above rate is used to provide wholesale treatment for effluent collected by another sewage works or sewage utility, the minimum charge shall not be less than $18.65 per equivalent family dwelling unit connected to the other sewage works or utility computed under flat rate charges provided in this section.
(B) The minimum monthly charge for any metered service shall in no event be less than $102.25 or 50% of the average of the three highest metered readings in the preceding 11 months, whichever is the largest, and such rates shall be charged each month, even though the property is not used or occupied year round.
(C) The rates and charges to users outside the corporate limits shall be 100% of the rates and charges set forth above.
(D) (1) In order that the rates and charges may be justly and equitably adjusted to the service rendered, the town shall have the right to base its charges not only on volume, but also on the strength and character of the sewage and wastes which it is required to treat and dispose of. The town shall have the right to measure and determine the strength and content of all sewage and wastes discharged, either directly or indirectly, into the town’s sanitary sewage system, in such manner and by such method as it may deem practicable in the light of the conditions and attending circumstances of the case, in order to determine the proper charge.
(2) Extra charges based on the strength of the sewage and liquid wastes shall be made on the following basis:
(a) Rate surcharge based upon suspended solids. There shall be an additional charge of $.13 per 1,000 gallons of flow for each 100 milligrams, or fraction thereof, of suspended solids in excess of 300 milligrams per liter of fluid.
(b) Rate surcharge based upon B.O.D. There shall be an additional charge of $.16 per 1,000 gallons of flow for each 100 milligrams, or fraction thereof, of biochemical oxygen demand in excess of 300 milligrams per liter of fluid.
(3) To determine the strength of the sewage and wastes, samplings and analysis may be made from time to time whenever it is deemed desirable by the town. After charges have been established based upon the strength of sewage and wastes, the owner may request reconsideration of these charges by the town by submitting analyses of composite samples of the sewage and wastes subject to such charges, certified by a registered engineer or a qualified graduate chemist. The town may then adjust the charges to the ordinance rates required by such analysis or may recheck the findings by additional sampling and analysis. Requests for rate adjustments by the owner may be submitted not more often than every 12 months.
(4) The determination of suspended solids and five-day biological oxygen demand contained in the waste shall be in accordance with the latest copy of “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water, Sewage and Industrial Wastes”, as written by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association and the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association.
(E) For services rendered to the town by the works, the town shall be subject to and pay like rates and charges as herein provided for governmental users.
(F) In order to produce an amount sufficient to meet the interest on the revenue bonds, and other expenses, payable prior to the completion of the works, beginning as soon as the actual work has commenced on the sewage works, the owners of each and every lot, parcel of real estate or building to be connected with the town’s sanitary sewage system, as a result of construction of the works, shall pay, each month 63% of the rates and charges established above, for each such existing structure to be connected. Beginning with the first month after the sanitary sewers are available for connection and use to any lot, parcel of real estate or building, the full rates and charges shall become effective for such lot, parcel of real estate, or building.
(‘82 Code, § 32-200) (Am. Ord. l70, passed 4-l-74; Am. Ord. 308, passed 5-l3-8l; Am. Ord. 430, passed 7-23-86; Am. Ord. 450, passed l2-7-87; Am. Ord. 589, passed 8-24-93; Am. Ord. 615, passed 8-2-94; Am. Ord. 730, passed 9-22-98; Am. Ord. 741, passed 12-22-98; Am. Ord. 819, passed 2-26-02)