(A) (1) The Board of Public Affairs and/or other duly authorized employees of the village bearing proper credentials and identification shall be permitted to enter all properties for the purpose of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling, and testing pertinent to discharge to the community system in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
(2) The Board and/or other duly authorized employees are authorized to obtain information concerning industrial processes which have a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the wastewater collection system. The industry may withhold information considered confidential. The industry must establish that the revelation to the public of the information in question might result in an advantage to competitors.
(3) While performing the necessary work on private properties, referred to in this section, the Board and/or duly authorized employees of the village shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the company, and the company shall be held harmless for injury or death to the village employees, and the village shall indemnify the company against loss or damage to its property by village employees and against liability claims and demands for personal injury or property damage assessed against the company and growing out of the gauging and sampling operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the company to maintain safe conditions.
(B) (1) On and after the first day of the month following completion of sewage treatment plant, now being constructed, there is levied and assessed upon each lot, parcel of land, building, or premises having any sewer connection with the sanitary sewer system of the village or otherwise discharging sewage, industrial wastes, water or other liquids either directly or indirectly into the village wastewater treatment system, a charge or rental.
(2) (a) The users of the system shall be divided into classes. Classes shall be groups of users for which the wastewater characteristics are approximately equal and services provided are essentially the same. Initially, there shall be established 2 classes or users, as follows:
1. Industrial users; and
2. Nonindustrial users.
(b) The Board of Public Affairs may recommend additional classes as determined to be necessary.
(3) Charges for wastewater treatment service shall be paid by each user connected to the system and shall be computed in accordance with probable demand a user places on the system and the quantity of water discharged to the system as measured by the village water meter installed thereon or by a sewage meter installed on the discharge pipe therefrom, or as estimated by the village, in accordance with the charge schedule hereinafter set forth.
(4) When a considerable amount of water delivered to any premises is not returned to the village sewage disposal system, the Board may establish a special basis upon which the sewage disposal charges to such premises will be computed, or upon a determination by either the Board or the customer that the use of direct metering of sanitary sewage flow is necessary or is a more equitable method of determining sewage disposal charges, the Board shall order the installation of wastewater meters.
(C) Charges for wastewater treatment shall consist of $1.04 per 1,000 gallons for the operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment system and $0.66 per 1,000 gallons for debt service repayment or a total charge of $1.70 per 1,000 gallons. The minimum charge for wastewater service shall be computed as follows:
(1) The minimum charge for wastewater service measured by water meter, shall be $25.50 for first 15,000 gallons per quarter.
(2) Charges for use measured by wastewater meters, such as Parshall flumes, magnetic meters, venturi meters, etc., shall be $25.50 for first 15,000 gallons per quarter.
(D) In addition to the minimum charge, there shall be paid the following charges per 1,000 gallons for all water used or wastewater metered in excess of 15,000 gallons per quarter.
(1) $1.70 per 1,000 gallons for wastewater service measured by the water meter.
(2) $1.70 per 1,000 gallons for wastewater service measured by the wastewater meter.
(E) In addition to the minimum charge and the volume charge, any user discharging wastewater containing BOD In excess of 200 mg/l or suspended solids of 200 mg/l shall pay the following additional charges:
(1) BOD–$0.18 per pound of excess over 200 mg/l.
(2) SS–$0.18 per pound of excess over 250 mg/l.
(F) in addition to other charges, each user shall be charged $40.00 for each sampling and metering required for high strength surcharges, industrial cost recovery or ascertaining pretreatment compliance. A fee shall be charged for each sampling period In which samples are collected and analyzed. Sampling periods shall not exceed a 24-hour day.
(G) Other wastewater, containing compatible waste only, delivered to the treatment system shall pay a fee of $I.70 per 1,000 gallons, and shall be subject to the high strength surcharges.
(Ord. 1978-28, passed 8-14-1978)