(A) Connection charges to the city wastewater system and charges for sewer service or discharging sewage into the city sewer system within or without the corporate limits of the city, and all other charges related to sewer service, shall be as set forth in an applicable resolution of the City Council. Rates applicable to commercial users of sewer services shall be subject to the following:
(1) Users that discharge most of their water used into the city sewer system, as measured by a water meter installed at the subject property, shall be assessed a sewer fee based on water use as set forth in the applicable resolution of the City Council.
(2) Sewer fees for commercial users that discharge only a portion of the volume of water used, as measured by a water meter installed at the subject property, into the city sewer system shall be evaluated at the discretion of the Public Works Director (or designee) or at the request of the user, and an equitable charge shall be assessed. Such users may include those that use a significant volume of water for irrigation or evaporative cooling, or that use a significant volume of water in product processing, manufacturing or storage that is not discharged into the city sewer system. The following factors may be considered:
(a) The minimum monthly charge shall be that established for commercial users as set forth in the applicable resolution of the City Council.
(b) A yearly constant charge, based on the average volume of water used during each of certain months, may be appropriate. For example, sewer charges based on an average of water used during the months of December, January and February (i.e., months with normally little landscape watering).
(c) Commercial users may, at their option and cost, install separate water meters for water discharged into the city sewer system and water that is not discharged into the city sewer system (e.g., water used solely for landscape irrigation). In this circumstance, sewer charges shall apply only to the water metered for discharge into the city sewer system.
(d) Such other charge that is equitably based on the volume of water that is reasonably expected to be discharged into the city sewer system.
(3) The determination of the Public Works Director (or designee) may be appealed to the City Council. Such an appeal must be submitted in writing within 30 days of the Public Works Director’s determination regarding the equitable sewer fee applicable to a particular parcel, property or use.
(B) (1) The amount payable to the city for any domestic sewer connection or commercial and industrial sewer connection shall be as follows:
Type of Development | Sanitary Sewer |
Single-family | $1,817.10 |
Duplex | $3,634.20 |
Triplex | $4,688.12 |
Quadruplex | $5,832.89 |
Apartments (over four) | Number of units x SFU x .69 |
Mobile home on P.D. lot | $1,514.25 |
(2) For bakeries and laundries, the cost will be actual flows, using the following equations:
(a) Bakeries: Single-family cost x 3Q, gpd x 2.63
300
(b) Laundry: Single-family cost x Q, gpd x 2.21
300
(3) For all other connections, flows will be equated to the equivalent of single-family usage using the following formula for sanitary sewer loading:
Q, gpd x BOD5 mg/l x suspended solids mg/l x SFU Fee
300 80 mg/l 200 mg/l
(C) In no event shall the city be required to furnish any meters at any point between its sewer lines and the place of origin of sewage or processing wastes, but the city shall have the power to require a water or processing waste flow meter.
(D) Each fee imposed herein shall be adjusted automatically on July 1 of each fiscal year by a percentage equal to the percentage of increase in the U.S. Consumer Price Index: U.S. Cities Average plus an amount equal to 3% of the immediate previous year’s total fee.
(`61 Code, § 18.9) (Ord. 258, passed 12-4-1950; Am. Ord. 722, passed 10-18-1983; Am. Ord. 832, passed 8-6-1991; Am. Ord. 858, passed 9-20-1994; Am. Ord. 1038, passed 10-20-2015)