The definitions set forth in Section 923.01, including without limitation the definitions of “sewage” and “director” are incorporated herein by reference the same as though fully rewritten at length.
(a) “Administrative charge” shall mean the costs of administering a contract or account including without limitation the cost of installation, maintenance, and reading of sewage or water consumption meters.
(b) “Capital charges” shall mean the capital and transportation charges or costs to install or construct equipment or improvements in the District's common collection and treatment facilities necessary to meet the effluent limitations and requirements of the district's NPDES permit, the law, the requirements of the OEPA and USEPA, and the consent decree, including engineering costs, construction costs, and interest and other ordinary and usual charges required to finance the engineering and construction.
(c) “MCF” shall mean 1,000 cubic feet, volume.
(d) “Operation and maintenance” shall mean those functions that result in expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities, and other items which are necessary for managing and for which such works were designed and constructed and “replacement” shall mean obtaining or rebuilding and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
(e) “Ordinary household waste” or “OW” shall mean sewage with loadings not in excess of those for which the District's waste water treatment facilities were designed to accept, that being OW having concentrations or loadings not in excess of 250 mg/liter (“mg/l”) of suspended solids (“SS”), 185 mg/l of biochemical oxygen demand material (“BOD”), 9 mg/l Phosphorus (“P”), and 50 mg/l of oil and grease (“O&G”).
(f) “User charge” shall mean that portion of the total waste water service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance and replacement of the waste water treatment works and includes costs without limitation the costs attributable to operation and maintenance of the District's waste water treatment plant facilities and shared collection system and for replacement of the components thereof, e.g., pumps and meters, having a shorter service life than the facility it serves and specifically includes the cost of installing, maintaining and replacing or rebuilding the sewer flow meters by the District to measure the flow at the District's collection and treatment facilities.
(Ord. 112-2000. Passed 5-15-00.)