(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) COST OF RECOVERY CHARGE. A charge collected from users discharging industrial wastes for the recovery of the Federal EPA grant amount allocable to the treatment of wastes, and is proportionate to the volume and pollutional characteristics at design capacity of Federal EPA-funded wastewater collection and treatment facilities.
(2) INDUSTRIAL USER. Any non-governmental, nonresidential user of a publicly-owned treatment works which discharges more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day (gpd) of sanitary wastes and which is identified in the Standard Industrial supplement under one of the following divisions.
Division A--Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
Division B--Mining.
Division D--Manufacturing.
Division E--Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services.
(a) In determining the amount of a user’s discharge for purposes of industrial cost recovery, the grantee may exclude domestic wastes or discharges from sanitary conveniences.
(b) After applying the sanitary waste exclusion in division (A)(2)(a) of this section (if the grantee chooses to do so), dischargers in the above divisions that have a volume exceeding 25,000 gpd, or the weight of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or suspended solids (SS) equivalent to that weight found in 25,000 gpd of sanitary waste, are considered industrial users. Sanitary wastes, for purposes of this calculation of equivalency, are the wastes discharges from residential users having a strength of 200 mg/l BOD and 250 mg/l SS. Any non-governmental user of a publicly-owned treatment works discharging wastewater to the treatment works which contains toxic pollutants or poisonous solids, liquids, or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by interaction with other wastes, to contaminate the sludge of any municipal systems, or to injure or to interfere with any sewage treatment process, or which constitutes a hazard to humans or animals, creates a public nuisance, or creates any hazard in or has an adverse effect on the waters receiving any discharge from the treatment works, shall be in violation of this ordinance.
(B) Cost recovery charge. In addition to the sewer service charge imposed on each user herein, cost recovery charge shall be imposed upon each industrial user. The charge shall be payable on the quarterly basis, and shall be the greater of the actual usage of projected reserve capacity of the industrial user. For purposes of cost recovery charge, the approving authority may exclude domestic waste in determining the amount of usage. The cost recovery charge shall be payable as hereinafter provided, and in an amount determinable as follows. The cost recovery charge of any industrial user shall be based upon the quantity of water used and quality of wastewater generated as measured by the water meter or sewage meter in use as follows.
Volume Charge (RV) - $1.55 per 1,000 gallons per day per year
BOD Charge (RB) - $.20 per pounds BOD per day per year
Suspended Solids Charge (RS) $.20 per pounds SS per day per year
R = (V x RV) + (V x RB x B x .00834) + (V x RS x S x .00834)
in which: R = cost recovery charge
V = wastewater volume in 1000 gallons of flow
B = concentration of BOD in milligrams per liter (mg/l) in wastewater
S = concentration of suspended solids in milligrams per liter (mg/l) in wastewater
(C) Recovery and disbursement of revenues. The recovery and the disbursement of revenues collected by the city through the cost recovery charge shall conform to the 40 CFR 35.928-1 and 35.928-2, promulgated by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendment of 1972.
(Ord. 170, passed 8-10-1981) Penalty, see § 10.99