(a) No person, firm, or corporation shall be permitted to make a tap to or connection with a sanitary sewer or a combined sewer for the purpose of affording sanitary sewer service to abutting property that has not previously had sanitary sewer service where such property has not been assessed the cost and expense of the construction of such sewer until the applicant shall have paid a sewer connection fee to the City.
(b) The Finance Director shall set such fee as follows:
(1) The estimated replacement cost of the assets of the City’s sanitary sewer utility system less depreciation and less the amount of debt outstanding shall be divided by the total number of 5/8-inch water meters or meter equivalents in place system-wide.
(2) The applicable meter equivalent ratio from the chart below shall be selected based on the size of the meter being installed at the property.
(3) The result of the calculation in subparagraph (1) above shall be multiplied by the meter equivalent ratio.
Meter Size in Inches | Meter Equivalent Ratio |
5/8 | 1.0 |
3/4 | 1.5 |
1 | 2.2 |
1-1/2 | 4.2 |
2 | 6.2 |
3 | 15.0 |
4 | 25.0 |
6 | 50.0 |
8 | 80.0 |
10 | 115.0 |
12 | 155.0 |
(c) A sewer connection for a property to be served by the sanitary sewer system, but not by the water system, shall be calculated by the Finance Director based on the size of the well meter, or some other measure that estimates the sewer capacity being made available to the property.
(d) A tap or connection to the sanitary sewer system that increases the size of the meter serving the property shall only be made after the payment of a sewer upgrade fee based on the difference between the size of the previous meter and the size of the new meter.
(e) The sewer upgrade fee shall be paid either in cash or by execution of a note therefor payable to the City over a period not to exceed five (5) years and billed to the owner by the City with each sewer bill during such period.
(f) The Finance Director shall recalculate the connection fee every two years. Any change in the fee as a result of such recalculation shall apply only to new connections applied for after the recalculation has been made.
(g) The sewer connection fee calculated as set out above shall be effective for any connections made on or after January 1, 2021, except that a property owner may connect if that owner pays the fee as calculated under the terms defined in Ordinance No. 16-102, passed April 12, 2016, before December 22, 2020.
(Ord. 13-311, passed 12-23-13; Ord. 16-102, passed 4-12-16; Ord. 20-295, passed 12-8-2020)