(A) It is determined and declared to be necessary and conducive to the protection of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience of the village to collect fees from all users who contribute wastewater to the village wastewater treatment facility and sewage disposal system. The proceeds of such fees and charges so derived will be used for the purpose of operating and maintaining the public wastewater treatment facility and sewage disposal system.
(B) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOD (denoting BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20°C, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l).
MAY. Permissive.
NORMAL DOMESTIC WASTEWATER. Wastewater that has a BOD concentration of not more than 250 mg/l and a suspended solids concentration of not more than 300 mg/l.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. All expenditures during the useful life of the treatment works for materials, labor, utilities and other items which are necessary for managing and maintaining the sewage works to achieve the capacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed.
REPLACEMENT. Expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or appurtenances which are necessary during the useful life of the treatment works to maintain the rapacity and performance for which such works were designed and constructed. The term OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE includes replacement.
RESIDENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR. Any contributor to the village’s treatment works whose lot, parcel of real estate, or building is used for domestic dwelling purposes only.
SHALL. Mandatory.
SS (denoting SUSPENDED SOLIDS). Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering.
TREATMENT WORKS. Any devices and systems for the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal sewage, domestic sewage, or liquid industrial wastes. These include intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, individual systems, pumping, power, and other equipment and their appurtenances; extensions improvement, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment (including land for composting sludge, temporary storage of such compost, and land used for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems before land application); or any other method or system for preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or disposing of municipal waste or industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary sewer systems.
USEFUL LIFE. The estimated period during which a treatment works will be operated.
USER CHARGE. That portion of the total wastewater service charge which is levied in a proportional and adequate manner for the cost of operation, maintenance, and replacement of the wastewater treatment works.
WATER METER. A water volume measuring and recording device, furnished and/or installed by the village or furnished and/or installed by a user and approved by the village.
(C) (1) The user charge system shall generate adequate annual revenues to pay costs of annual operation and maintenance, including replacement and coats associated with debt retirement of bonded capitol associated with financing the wastewater treatment facility and sewage disposal system which the village may by ordinance designate to be paid by the user charge system. That portion of the total user charge which is designated for operation and maintenance, including replacement of treatment works, shall be established by this section.
(2) That portion of the total user charge collected which is designated for operation and maintenance, including replacement purposes as established in division (D), shall be deposited in a separate non-lapsing fund known as the Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund and will be kept in two primary accounts as follows.
(a) An account designated for the specific purpose of defraying operation and maintenance costs (excluding replacement) of the treatment works (Operation and Maintenance Account).
(b) An account designated for the specific purpose of ensuring replacement needs over the useful life of the treatment works (Replacement Account). Deposits in the replacement account shall be made annually from the operation, maintenance and replacement revenue in the amount set by resolution.
(3) Fiscal year-end balances in the Operation and Maintenance Account and the Replacement Account shall be carried over to the same accounts in the subsequent fiscal year and shall be used for no other purposes than those designated for these accounts. Monies which have been transferred from other sources to meet temporary shortages in the Operation, Maintenance and Replacement Fund shall be returned to their respective accounts upon appropriate adjustment of the user charge rates for operation, maintenance and replacement. The user charge rate(s) shall be adjusted such that the transferred monies will be returned to their respective accounts within the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the monies were borrowed.
(D) (1) The following classes of user’s charges and fees to those users are established. The village does establish a sewer use fee for all residential and commercial entities who are presently utilizing the village sewer system and all residential and commercial entities who hook-up to the system hereafter. The rate shall be based upon the residential (SFR) single family classification equivalent units. The classification of users and the equivalent unit set for said classification are as follows.
Classification
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Equivalent Unit
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Classification
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Equivalent Unit
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Single-family residence; permanent trailer, townhouse/condominium unit, if billed individually | 1.0 |
Multi-family residential units; duplexes, apartments, townhouses, when in one building and billed collectively: One bedroom apartment without kitchen Buffet apartment Up to and including 2 bedrooms and no more than 1.5 bathrooms 3 bedrooms and no more than 2 bathrooms 4 bedrooms and over or more than 2 bathrooms For each coin-operated washing machine Mobile home (trailer) in court | .25 .6 .7 .8 1.0 .25 1.0 |
Transient rental units, hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes, rental units in residence. Basic fee includes manager’s quarters Each additional rental room w/o cooking facilities Each additional rental room w/cooking facilities Each coin-operated washing machine | 1.0 .2 .3 .25 |
Bars, restaurants For business with less than 25 seating capacity For the second 25 seating capacity or part thereof For each additional 25 seating capacity (after the first 50) (Note: Based above on 100% for open six days a week; reduce by 20% for each day not open less than 6) | 1.0 .6 .4 |
Service stations w/o wash rack Each additional wash rack (per bay for car washes) | 1.5 1.0 |
Commercial or public buildings such as stores, offices, warehouses and similar having no process water: Minimum for each building or customer up to 2,500 sq. ft./building area For each additional 3,000 sq. ft. building area or part thereof Additional for each pair of public restrooms | 1.0 .6 .4 |
Churches, non-profit organization halls (no residence or regular eating facilities) | 1.0 |
Schools, public or private: Basic rate, per pupil capacity 0-50 Each additional 50 students or fraction thereof Multiply above basic rate by 1.2 factor if school has gymnasium and showers Multiply above basic rate by 1.2 if school has cafeteria | 2.0 1.0 |
Hospitals and nursing homes per bed | .25 |
(2) Sewer charges based upon metered water service.
(a) Contributors using process water and/or users with an equivalent single family classification in excess of 2.5 may be required by the village or may at the customer’s request have water meters installed.
(b) Water and sewer use charges shall be based upon water meter readings when a meter is required or requested.
(c) Sewer rates for sewer use shall be as set forth by the Board of Trustees.
(d) The customer shall pay for the water meter, appurtenances and installation costs as set forth by the Board of Trustees.
(e) If a contributor has a consumptive use of water, or in some other manner uses water which is not returned to the wastewater collection system, the user charge for that contributor may be based on a wastewater meter(s) or separate water meter(s) installed and maintained at the contributor’s expense and in a manner acceptable to the village.
(3) Each single family classification equivalent unit shall be charged to the user at the rate as set forth by the Board of Trustees. Each partial unit shall be charged at the pro rata share of said charge. Sewer user rates may be modified or changed after the passage of this section by ordinance passed by the Village Board of Trustees.
(4) The sewer use fee shall be billed monthly and shall be due and payable to the Village Clerk- Treasurer in the same manner and at the same times as provided by the village for payment of water use charges.
(5) Any user which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase in the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the village treatment works or any user which discharges any substance which singly or by interaction with any other substances causes identifiable increases in the costs of operation, maintenance, or replacement of the treatment works shall pay for such increase costs. The charge to such user will be as determined by the responsible treatment facility operating personnel and approved by the Village Board of Trustees.
(E) (1) The village will review the user charge system every two years and revise user charge rates as necessary to ensure the system generates adequate revenues 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.
(2) The village will notify each user at least annually, in conjunction with a regular bill, of the rate being charged for operation and maintenance, including replacement of the treatment works.
(Ord. D-78, passed 10-20-1988)
(F) This section shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, publication and approval. All parties understand that the user charge system takes precedence over any terms or conditions of agreements or contracts between the grantee and users (including industrial users, special districts, other municipalities, or federal agencies or installations) which are inconsistent with the requirements of the Clean Water Act, being 33 USC 1251 et seq., § 204(b)(1)(A), and the corresponding regulations.
(Am. Ord. D-94, passed 6-25-1990)