(A) Pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended; federal rules, regulations, an guidelines promulgated pursuant to the Act; and pursuant to Section 104b of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act (111-1.2 Ill. Rev. Stat. §1046), there is hereby imposed and levied upon all users of the village wastewater facilities charges and fees as are hereinafter fixed by ordinance to be utilized by the village as hereafter provided to pay for operation, maintenance and replacement costs for the village wastewater facilities as well as related and appropriate costs including, but not limited to, financing costs, administrative costs, and capital improvement costs.
(B) The wastewater rates (the “rates”) to be paid by users of the village’s wastewater system, based upon the monthly waste water use per gallon of water, shall be as follows:
Wastewater facility charge | $5.00 per month per customer |
Plus | |
Wastewater usage charge | $1.11 per 100 gallons of water use |
(C) The wastewater usage charge herein combines the user charge rates for the capital improvement rate, debt service rate, and user rate, as established elsewhere herein into a single combined charge.
(D) A special charge of $0.15 per 100 gallons of wastewater use is hereby established for users located outside the village’s corporate limit. This special charge shall be in addition to the standard wastewater usage charge.
(E) The wastewater usage charge shall be increased by a waste strength multiplier for certain type of use. Users which discharge non-domestic strength wastewater shall pay a wastewater usage charge that is the standard charge multiplied by the waste strength multiplier set forth in § 54.020.
(F) The rates established above in divisions (B) through (E) hereof may be stated in bills therefor submitted to users or to the person to whom the bills are to be sent broken down into such elements or subparts as shall be desirable or necessary to comply with generally accepted accounting principles, sound engineering principles or the requirements of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency or other authority having jurisdiction in that connection.
(Ord. 18-04-01, passed 4-24-2018; Ord. 21-04-02, passed 4-27-2021; Ord. 23-04-01, passed 4-26-2023)