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(A) Charges for sanitary sewer services furnished by the WPCA for residential, commercial, industrial and institutional users shall be as established and revised from time to time by majority vote of the members of the WPCA (to be approved by a majority vote of the Legislative Council).
(B) Such charges shall reflect a proportional distribution of costs among all users pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat., § 7-255, and Section 204(b) of the Clean Water Act, 33 USC 1284(b).
(Ord. 397, passed 10-25-99)
The charges to be made by the WPCA for sewer service to property located outside the limits of the town shall be established on the basis of a formal contract, the charges shown in said contract to be not less than actual costs to the WPCA, and said contract to be approved by the Legislative Council.
(Ord. 397, passed 10-25-99)
All persons owning, renting, leasing or having management or control of property or premises that produce waste that is discharged into the sanitary sewers of the town, including domestic waste, and subject to the provisions of this chapter, shall be charged the rates established by the WPCA, and no reduced rates or free sanitary sewer service shall be furnished to any such person, property or premises. In all cases, the owner of property shall have final responsibility for the payment of sewer charges.
(Ord. 397, passed 10-25-99)
In those instances where water meters are provided on the sources of water providing water to the facilities discharging into the sanitary sewer system of the town, portable water usage will be determined from the water meter readings for the purpose of determining the sewer service charge, except as may be modified or amended by the WPCA with the approval of the Legislative Council from time to time. As to such water sources that are not metered, estimates of water usage will be made.
(Ord. 397, passed 10-25-99)
(A) Any person owning or having control of property discharging waste into the sanitary sewers of the town and on whose property there is located one or more facilities requiring water from the source of supply that also furnishes water to the sanitary sewer system, and such water provided to the town, may at his or her own expense install a water meter of a type and design, and at a location, approved by the General Manager, and the WPCA will accept readings from such meter taken and provided to the WPCA by such person or his or her duly authorized agent, such readings to be furnished on forms provided by the General Manager and sworn to as correct by the person taking the reading. Meters installed for this purpose shall be sealed by the WPCA, and the owners shall ensure that said seal is not broken.
(B) The amount of water measured by the reading of such meter will be used to adjust the water usage upon which the user charge established by this chapter will be computed. In the event such property is not supplied water by the company, such meter reading will be deducted from the total water usage furnished to the property as estimated by the General Manager as provided for in this chapter.
(C) No facility for which a meter is installed under the provisions of this section shall be connected to the sanitary sewer system of the town without the owner thereof having first notified in writing the General Manager of such proposed connection.
(D) The sewer staff shall have the right, at any time during regular business hours, to check the meter reading on such meter installed to measure the amount of water provided to the facility not discharging waste into the town's sanitary sewers, and to remove and test such meter at any time.
(E) Any person making a false affidavit as to the amount of water usage registered by a meter installed under the provisions of this section, or any person representing to the WPCA that the facility for which a meter is installed under the provisions hereof does not discharge waste into the sanitary sewer when, in fact, it does, or any person having facilities for which such a meter is installed who subsequently connects such facility to the town's sanitary sewer system without notifying the WPCA and the General Manager shall be guilty of an offense. Each and every day that such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense punishable as set forth in § 51.99.
(Ord. 397, passed 10-25-99) Penalty, see § 51.99
(A) The provisions of this section shall apply only to those industrial, commercial and institutional water users who have facilities connected to the sanitary sewers of the town and who make application to the General Manager under the provisions hereof.
(B) Any industrial, institutional and commercial water user owning or having control of property discharging waste into the sanitary sewers of the town, and on whose property there is located one or more facilities requiring water from the source of supply that also furnishes water to the sanitary sewer system, and all or part of such water provided to any such facility is not discharged into the sanitary sewers of the town, may make application to the General Manager and the WPCA, on forms furnished by the WPCA, requesting that an engineering study of the applicant's property and facilities be made for the hereinafter stated purpose, and paying the fee established by the WPCA.
(C) Applications made under the provisions of this section shall be upon forms promulgated and furnished by the General Manager with the approval of the WPCA, and the applicant shall furnish all the information and other matters requested therein to the WPCA. The fee for making the first application under the provisions hereof shall be as established and revised from time to time by the WPCA upon approval of the Legislative Council. No fee shall be required for studies initiated by the General Manager subsequent to the first application. The fee is to reimburse the WPCA for the expense of making the engineering study and report. Each applicant shall agree, as a condition precedent to the WPCA conducting the study and tests provided for herein, to indemnify and hold harmless the WPCA of and from any and all such liability for any acts or omissions by the WPCA, its agents and employees, committed while conducting the engineering studies and tests provided for herein, causing or resulting in damages to the property or person of the applicant, his or her agents, employees and invitees.
(D) Upon receipt of an application and the fee required herein, the WPCA will, as soon as possible, make an engineering study of the applicant's property and facilities.
In those instances where, in the opinion of the WPCA Manager based upon an engineering study of the property and facilities of the applicant, it is impractical or infeasible for the applicant to install one or more meters to measure the amount of water passing through the water meter serving such property and not being discharged into the sanitary sewers of the town, the WPCA is authorized to make an engineering study to determine the percentage of the amount of water passing through such meter that is being discharged into the sanitary sewer of the town. A report of such determination, showing the basis thereof, shall be certified by the WPCA, and one copy shall be retained by the WPCA and one copy shall be filed with the General Manager and one copy shall be filed with the Town Clerk. Such report, when so filed, shall constitute the basis upon which the sewer service charge established by this chapter shall be computed.
(E) The General Manager is authorized by the majority vote of the WPCA to make such additional engineering studies from time to time of any such property and facilities, to check the current accuracy of the filed report on any such property, and if it is then determined that the filed reports annual estimated sewage volume is now estimated to differ by more than 5%, a new report based upon the latest studies shall be filed with the WPCA to replace the prior one. A complete copy of each such report shall be retained by the WPCA, with a copy sent to the General Manager. No change in the basis of computing the sewer service charge for any property will be made until the first billing date after the filing by the WPCA of the first or any subsequent report.
(F) In the event the General Manager, with the approval of the WPCA, determines it is necessary that certain testing instruments be installed, or the existing equipment of facilities located on the applicants property be altered, adjusted, disconnected or temporarily moved in order to facilitate the making of an engineering study or test under the provisions of this section, all of the foregoing shall be done by and at the expense of the applicant.
(G) When the General Manager has, as a result of an engineering study made under the provisions of this section, determined the percentage of metered water passing through the water meters serving a property that is being discharged into the sanitary sewers of the town, or when the amount of metered water passing through the water meter serving such property and which is not being discharged into the town's sanitary sewers is determined from a water meter installed to measure the amount of such water, billings by the WPCA for sanitary sewer service to such property made prior to such determination shall be reviewed for the purpose of making whatever adjustment is necessary in order to charge such customer only for the amount of metered water that is or has been discharged into the town's sanitary sewers. No adjustment shall be made in excess of that determined to be proper from such engineering study or from the metering of water that is not discharged into the sanitary sewers of the town. Once the proper percentage of adjustment has been determined and certified to the WPCA under the provisions of this section, all subsequent adjustment of water usage for sanitary sewer service charge purposes shall be computed only on the certified basis of adjustment currently on file with the WPCA.
(H) The WPCA may deny an application to conduct a study authorized by this section, for reasons including a finding by other methods adopted by the General Manager to reflect differences in the amounts of metered potable water and estimated wastewater discharges for the purpose of assessing user charges.
(Ord. 397, passed 10-25-99)
Where the company does not supply the source of water for all multiple living unit connections, the owner of the premises will be billed directly for the sewer service charge, where individual water meters are not provided for each living unit.
(Ord. 397, passed 10-25-99)
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