(a) The funds received from the collection of sewer service charges shall be deposited with the Village Treasurer in the Sewer Revenue Fund with a percentage, as determined by the Village Treasurer and/or the Board of Trustees, to be deposited into the “Equipment Replacement Account,” the “Debt Service Fund,” and the “Sewer Extension and Replacement Fund.” Monies collected from the connection charges shall be deposited directly into the Sewer Extension and Replacement Fund.
(b) The Board of Trustees shall review the user charges at least annually and revise the rates, subject to City Council approval, as necessary to ensure that adequate revenues are generated to pay the costs of operation and maintenance (including replacement) and that the system continues to provide for the proportional distribution of operation and maintenance including replacement costs among users and user classes.
(1) The Board of Trustees shall recommend the schedule of charges no later than the first regular meeting in October of the City Council for ratification with the effective date of the ordinance to be January 1 of the following year.
(2) The Village shall also inform each user at least annually, in conjunction with a regular bill, of the rates and that portion of the user charge that are attributable operation, maintenance, and replacement costs for wastewater treatment services.
(3) The system shall be in accordance with the methods used to establish the rates developed in the user charge system report approved by the Ohio EPA and with the following requirements:
A. The system shall result in the distribution of the costs of operation and maintenance of the wastewater system within the Department's jurisdiction to each user class in proportion to such user's contribution to the total wastewater loading of the treatment works. Factors such as strength, volume, and delivery flow rate characteristics shall be considered and included as the basis for the user's contribution to insure a proportional distribution of operation and maintenance (including replacement) costs to each user class.
B. The system shall be reviewed annually and revised periodically to reflect actual operation, maintenance, and replacement costs of the wastewater system.
C. The system shall generate sufficient revenue to offset the costs of all wastewater system operation and maintenance provided by the Department and such other expenditures authorized by division (a) of this section, including debt service requirements.
D. The cost of treating and handling the extra constituents of BOD5 and suspended solids shall be determined and reported in the schedule of extra strength user surcharges at a cost per pound for each constituent.
(c) In connection with the administering of this chapter, reference is made to Section 927.08 - Control of Industrial Wastewaters of the Sewer Use Ordinance, specifically those sections pertaining to control manholes, wastewater volume determination, sampling and monitoring, and analyses.
(d) The results of routine sampling and analysis by the owner will be used to determine the extra strength user surcharges; however, the Board of Trustees may, at any period or time and of such duration and in such manner as the Board of Trustees may elect, determine the strength of the discharged wastewater for purposes of verification. If the owner fails to file the necessary annual reports, the strength determined by the Public Utilities' analysis will be used to determine the amount of surcharges. Similarly, the surcharges shall be applied to the total metered water consumption if the owner fails to file the required annual reports.
(e) If necessary, the Public Utilities shall have the right to enter and set up, on company property, such devices as are necessary to conduct a gauging and sampling operation and to begin such operation without advance notice to the company or owner. While performing the work, the Department's personnel will observe all safety rules applicable to the premises, established by the company.
(f) Where a company has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry onto company's premises is granted, such company shall either make necessary arrangements with their security guards that upon showing proper identification, personnel from the Department will be permitted to enter, without delays, for the purpose of obtaining samples (grab or composite) of wastewaters being discharged at the various sampling points; or the company shall install suitable gauging and sampling manholes outside the security limits, such manholes will at all times be immediately accessible to Department personnel.
(Ord. 1557. Passed 4-14-97; Ord. 1739. Passed 3-8-2004.)