(A) Metered residential water customers and allotments.
(1) The water allotment for residential customers shall be calculated by taking each customer's average water use over the preceding 12 months, divided by the number of days in the 12-month period to yield the average daily usage. The average daily usage will be reduced by 50% for each residential household.
(2) Residential water customers are required to provide city and utility personnel with reasonable access to read meters as necessary to this rationing declaration. Where access is not readily available, all reasonable efforts to contact customers in order to arrange for access to read meters shall be made. In the event a water customer does not allow entry to read the meter after reasonable efforts to arrange for such access, the dwelling unit (household) allotment will be reduced to 30 gallons per day.
(3) Where the residential water allotment provided under this section would create an extraordinary hardship, as in the case of special health-related requirements, the water customer may apply to the city for an exemption or variance from these requirements. If it is found that the allotment provided in this section would impose an extraordinary hardship, a revised allotment for the particular customer may be established. Any person aggrieved by a decision relating to such an exemption or variance rendered by the city rendering water service beyond its corporate limits, may file a complaint with the City Council in accordance with the city's normal administrative procedures.
(B) Suggested conservation measures. See § 50.180.
(Ord. 12-86- , passed 12-1-86)