(A) The user charge for the use of and for the service supplied by the sewer system of the village shall consist of a sewer charge for operation, maintenance, and replacement.
(B) The basic sewer charge shall be applied to sewer usage as recorded by water meters and/or sewage meters for wastes.
(C) Actual unit rates as described as follows are set forth in § 50.07.
(1) Budget and appropriation. The Trustee in charge of Water and Wastewater Department appropriations shall, no less than once per annum, prepare an estimate of anticipated costs for each category of user charge, as outlined hereafter, for the forthcoming fiscal year. These estimates shall be made in the form of a user charge rate ordinance and shall be proposed to the Village Board for enactment by May 1 of each year.
(2) Operation and maintenance. Annual operation and maintenance costs shall be determined for the sewer system.
(3) Replacement. Annual replacement costs shall be determined sufficient to cover replacement of equipment, accessories, or appurtenances in the sewer system owned by the village, as required, in order to assure continued peak performance and maintain design capacity over the sewer system’s useful life.
(4) Unit rates. The unit rate for the sewer charge shall be determined by:
(a) Dividing estimated annual operation and maintenance costs by estimated annual wastewater volume in thousand gallons;
(b) Dividing estimated annual replacement costs by estimated annual wastewater volume in thousand gallons; and
(c) Adding content of divisions (C)(4)(a) and (C)(4)(b) above to obtain the sewer charge unit rate per thousand gallons.
(5) Surcharge. A surcharge will be levied on all users who discharge wastewaters exceeding normal domestic waste strengths of 200 mg/l BOD and 250 mg/l suspended solids. The surcharge will be calculated by applying the rates to the pounds of BOD and suspended solids discharged above the normal domestic waste strengths.
(6) Minimum charge. A minimum charge for provision of service shall be applied to all users whose usage does not exceed 6,000 gallons per quarter.
(7) Notice of rates. Each user will be notified annually by the village in conjunction with a regular bill, of the sewer user charge rate.
(8) Method of computation. The method for computation of rates and service charges established for user charges in this section shall be made available to a user within 30 days of receipt of a written request for such. Any disagreement over the method used or in the computations thereof shall be remedied by the Village Board within 60 days after notification of a formal written appeal outlining the discrepancies.
(9) Billable flows. BILLABLE FLOW is the estimate of sewer usage as recorded by water meters. All users shall be eligible to take a 10% credit for nonreturned water if they pay within ten days of receipt of their bill. For users paying after this ten-day period, billable flow shall be 100% of the recorded water meter usage, unless an approved sewage meter is provided by the user.
(10) Additional charges. Additional charges are as follows:
(a) Actual costs incurred for water meter inspection requested by the user or as required for billing purposes;
(b) Actual costs incurred for handling a user’s check with nonsufficient funds;
(c) Actual costs incurred for special handling not provided for elsewhere in this chapter; and
(d) Sampling and laboratory costs for monitoring industrial users for disclosures above domestic levels.
(Prior Code, § 7-4-3) (Ord. passed 9-10-1984)