There is hereby adopted, established, and ordained, and there shall be collected, a schedule of rates and charges for use of the services and facilities rendered by the municipal sanitary sewage collection treatment and disposal facilities of the city as follows:
(1) The monthly sewer service charge for residential and commercial consumers, shall be as follows:
(a) Effective July 1, 2021, the minimum monthly rate shall be $5.420 for all residential and commercial consumers. The rate per 100 cubic feet of water consumed shall be $4.52, except that the rate per 100 cubic feet of water shall be $12.69 for the residential and commercial consumers of the former Perryville Sewer System and the rate per 100 cubic feet of water shall be $9.40 for the residential and commercial consumers of the former Junction City Sewer System.
(2) The monthly sewer service charge for wholesale and industrial consumers shall be as follows, or by special agreement with the city in cases where all water used by the consumer is not returned to the sanitary sewer or where liquid sewage wastes are of unusual strength or composition, except that any such user which has a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit shall be required to pay the sewer surcharge only on that portion of water returned to the sewer system; such user must have a sewage meter or some approved means of measuring the amount returned to the system and the city shall have the right to inspect the meter at all reasonable times, and may require the user to compile and maintain records containing pertinent data and information, which records shall be subject to inspection by the city and provided to the city upon request.
(a) Effective July 1, 2021, the minimum monthly rate shall be $5.420. The rates per 100 cubic feet of water consumed shall be $10.730.
(3) In addition to the monthly sewer service charge any industrial customer as defined in section 18-59 which exceed the limit as set in section 18-56 of the following constituents will be charged a fee as set forth below:
Monthly Average (PPM) | Fee ($ per lb) | |
BOD | 300 | 0.15 |
COD | 450 | 0.25 |
Total Suspended Solids | 350 | 0.20 |
Phosphorus | 20 | 0.50 |
Total Kjeldahl Nitogen | 40 | 0.79 |
Total Oil & Grease | 100 | 0.25 |
(Code 1977, § 11.210(2); Ord. No. 1290, § 1, 5-12-81; Ord. No. 1297, § 1, 7-14-81; Ord. No. 1347, § 2, 7-23-85; Ord. No. 1398, § 2, 7-12-88; Ord. No. 1411, § 1, 1- 24-89; Ord. No. 1435, § 1, 11-13-90; Ord. No. 1471, § 1, 11-10-92; Ord. No. 1506, § 1, 5-23-95; Ord. No. 1536, § 2, 9-23-97; Ord. No. 1600, 6-25-01; Ord. No. 1792, § 2, 7-12-11; Ord. No. 1898, § 1, 8-14-17; Ord. No. 1903, § 2, 9-25-17; Ord. No. 1911, § 2, 2-26-18; Ord. No. 1923, § 2, 10-8-18; Ord. No. 1973, § 1, 7-28-21; Ord. No. 2008, § 2, 3-13-23)