(A) User charges and fees shall be based upon the total amount of water used from all sources unless, in the opinion of the Wastewater Operations Manager, significant portions of water received are not discharged to a sanitary sewer.
(B) The total amount of water used from public and private sources will be determined by means of public meters or private meters, installed and maintained at the expense of the user and approved by the Wastewater Operations Manager.
(C) Where a metered water supply is used for fire protection, as well as for other uses, the utility may, in its discretion, adjust the minimum charge and in the use charge as may be equitable.
(D) For the service rendered to the city, the city shall be subject to the same rates and charges hereinabove provided, or to charges and rates established in harmony therewith.
(E) In the event two or more residential lots, parcels of real estate, or building discharging sanitary sewage, water or other liquids into the city's sewage system either directly or indirectly, are users of water and the quantity of water is measured by a single water meter, then in the case for billing purposes, the base charge per month of the sewage rates and charges shall be multiplied by the number of residential lots, parcels of real estate, or buildings served through the single water meter and added to treatment flow charge determined by the treatment flow rate as applied to the monthly metered flow. (Ord. 2017-06, passed 6-12-2017)