If a sanitary sewer customer feels that a significant amount of metered water will not or does not reach the sanitary sewer, a customer may select one of the following options.
(A) The customer may request to have a deduct meter installed, as necessary to calculate the volume of water not discharged to the sanitary sewer. In the case of significant industrial users or other commercial, industrial or institutional customers, they may request to measure the actual amount of sewage discharged to the sanitary sewer using other mutually acceptable means.
(1) Requests for a deduct meter or other means of measuring sewage metered services must be made in writing. In the event the city agrees to the installation, the customer shall make provisions for installation of the deduct meter or other mutually acceptable measuring devices at their own cost and shall be charged for all costs related thereto incurred by the city.
(2) No provisions shall be made, nor shall any means be taken, to route any water into the customer’s domestic water system after having flowed through a deduct meter or having been measured in any other way.
(3) In addition to the remedies set forth in § 53.151 of this chapter, any violation of this chapter will result in nullification of the deduct readings and removal of the deduct meter or other measuring device.
(B) In the event it is physically impractical or impossible to install metering equipment, the customer may request the Council to take means it deems necessary to formulate an estimate of the amount of water not being discharged into the sanitary sewerage system or, conversely, the amount of actual sewage discharged thereto and all related charges, credits or other provisions shall be identified in a separate agreement with the customer.
(C) Water that flows through deduct meters and does not reach the sewer system shall be charged as described in the rates identified within the city’s fee schedule or be identified in a separate agreement with the customer.
(2004 Code, § 53.101) (Ord. 781, passed 7-19-1988; Ord. 22-836, passed 1-10-2023)