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(A) The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing pertinent to discharge to the community system in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(B) The Superintendent or other duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. The industry may withhold information considered confidential. The industry must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(C) While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to in division (A) above, the Superintendent or duly authorized employees of the city shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the city employees; and the city shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by city employees and against liabilities claims and demands for personal injury or property damage asserted against the company growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions as required in § 51.05(H).
(D) The Superintendent and other duly authorized employees of the city bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all private properties through which the city holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes of, but not limited to: inspection; observation; measurements; sampling; repair; and maintenance of any portion of the wastewater facilities lying within said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated easement pertaining to the private property involved.
(E) The City Council shall act as a Hearing Board as needed for arbitration of differences between the Municipal Finance Officer and sewer users on matters concerning interpretation and execution of the provisions of this subchapter by the Superintendent.
(Ord. 374, passed 5-23-1983)
SEWER FEES AND PAYMENT PROCEDURE
The fee for connecting to the municipal sewer system shall be based on the water meter size as follows:
3/4" or 1" meter | $400 |
1-1/2" meter | $600 |
2" meter | $1,000 |
3" meter | $2,000 |
4" meter | $3,600 |
(Ord. 430, passed - -; Res. 2008-15, passed 8-11-2008; Ord. 708, passed 11-4-2024)
(A) The sewer rates shall be established by resolution of the City Council and kept on file in the office of the City Finance Officer.
(B) Classification of users as needed for billing purposes may be established by resolution of the City Council and kept on file in the office of the City Finance Officer.
(C) The City Council may require deposits for a particular class of users which requirement may be established by resolution of the City Council and kept on file in the office of the City Finance Officer.
(D) All users shall be billed monthly. The charge shall be based on the metered waste volume and the strength of the wastes discharged to the wastewater system.
(E) The charge for high volume and/or strength users without flow metering installations, or where data on volume and strength is not available, shall be based on metered water consumption estimates prepared by the city or other methods as determined by the city.
(F) The sewer rate shall be:
(1) Base rate of $26.88 per month for all users;
(2) Surcharge CW #1 of $10.50 per month per service;
(3) Surcharge CW #2 of $7.85 per month per service; and
(4) Usage fee of $4.60 per 1,000 gallons of water usage.
(Ord. 430, passed - -; Ord. 518, passed - -; Res. 2020-21, passed 7-6-2020; Res. 2023-5, passed 3-13-2023; Res. 2024-5, passed 2-5-2024)
(A) Payment of all water and sewer bills shall be due upon receipt by the consumer, as set forth in § 50.04(D). Failure to pay by the consumer within the time specified shall result in penalties and termination of service as set forth in Ordinance § 16-1-4.
(B) All users shall be billed monthly, such billing schedule to coincide with the billing schedule for water users as set forth in § 50.29. The charge shall be based on the average of the actual water usage during the metered periods ending on February, March, and April 15 of each year, and said average shall remain the same for the following monthly billing periods until April 15 of the next year when a new average will be calculated, except as hereinafter provided.
(C) The charge for users not receiving water service from the city water system during any or all of the metered periods ending on February, March, or April 15 or where there is no prior water usage, shall be based on estimates prepared by the city. If the metered water usage during any of the months used in calculating the average are substantially high or low as compared to metered water usage during the other months used in the calculation, a more appropriate amount may be substituted for the substantially high or low month’s metered water usage.
(D) The charge for users having substantially higher or lower metered water usage in several of the following monthly billing periods than the average as calculated in this section may be based on estimates as determined by the city.
(Ord. 430, passed - -; Ord. 518, passed - -)
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