The rates for services rendered by the sewerage system of the City for its services to its corporation, inhabitants and other users, shall be reasonable and just and in any event shall be at all times sufficient to produce gross revenues adequate:
(a) To pay the reasonable and proper expenses of operation and maintenance of the system;
(b) To pay when due the principal and interest charges, including required reserves and any mandatory coverage required by any bonds outstanding, payable from revenues of the system; and
(c) To pay semiannual installments due and payable to the Ohio Water Development Authority in repayment of any loans made to the City for the improvements of the system.
No user shall discharge into the system any nonacceptable sewage or industrial waste from any manufacturing or industrial plant, building or premises or waste or sewage of such character that it will damage the sewerage or disposal system or cannot be treated satisfactorily by the disposal system. The City Manager may compel such users to dispose of such waste and prevent it from entering the system. Acceptable industrial waste is hereby defined to be liquid organic waste materials not containing toxic or explosive elements injurious to sewers or sewage treatment processes.
In cases where the character of the sewage or industrial waste from any manufacturing or industrial plant, building or premises is such that it imposes an unreasonable burden upon the sewage pumping, treatment or disposal works greater than that imposed by the average sewage entering such sewage works, the City Manager may, if he deems it advisable, compel such manufacturing or industrial plant, building or premises, to pretreat such sewage in such manner as he shall specify before discharging such sewage into the sewerage system of the City.
If such pretreatment is not so ordered or accomplished, the City Manager shall recommend to Council the levying of a surcharge which shall be in addition to the regular charge. Council thereupon, by ordinance, may fix the amount of the surcharge.
Any user who discharges nonacceptable sewage or industrial waste into the system and causes damage thereto by reason of such action shall be liable to the City for such damage.
In cases where all or a large part of the water furnished to a consumer does not find its way into the sewerage system, the City Manager shall make such adjustment in rates as he may deem just and equitable.
(Ord. 2016-73. Passed 8-22-16.)