(A) Customers to pay for services. Each user shall pay for the services provided by the city based on his or her use of the treatment works as determined by water meters acceptable to the city.
(B) Basis for user charges. For industrial and commercial contributors, user charges shall be based on water used during the current month. If a commercial or industrial contributor has a consumptive use of water, or in some other manner uses water which is not returned to the waste water collection system, the user charge for that contributor may be based on a waste water meter or separate water meter installed and maintained on a waste water meter or separate water meter installed and maintained at the contributor’s expense, and in a manner acceptable to the city.
(C) Minimum charges.
(1) The minimum charge per month for any user of the wastewater treatment works shall be $48.20, this includes the first 1,000 gallons of usage. In addition, each contributor shall pay a user charge rate for operation and maintenance including replacement of $3.09 per 1,000 gallons of water used or fraction thereof.
(2) The minimum charge per month per unit of a MDU for use of the wastewater treatment works shall be $48.20, this includes the first 1,000 gallons of usage per unit. In addition, each unit of a MDU shall pay a user charge rate for operation and maintenance including replacement of $3.09 per 1,000 gallons of water per unit within the MDU used or fraction thereof.
(D) Costs of managing discharges. Any user which discharges any toxic pollutants which cause an increase in the cost of managing the effluent or the sludge from the city’s treatment works, or any user which discharges any substance which singly or by interaction with other substances causes identifiable increases in the cost of operation, maintenance, or replacement of the treatment works, shall pay for such increased costs. The charge to each user shall be as determined by the responsible plant operating personnel and approved by the City Council.
(E) Application. The user charge rates established in this section apply to all users, regardless or their location, of the city’s treatment works.
(Prior Code, § 715.040) (Ord. 222, passed 2-21-1984; Ord. 329, passed 4-3-2004; Ord. 453, passed 10-14-2020)
Cross-reference:
Appendix A to Ord. 222 adopted 2-21-84, is on file in the office of the City Clerk