For the purposes provided in Section 1048.02, there is hereby levied and charged upon each lot, parcel of land or other premises which is connected to or to which a public sewer is accessible or which discharges sewage, industrial waste, water or other liquid either directly or indirectly into the systems, sewer charges payable as hereinafter provided and in amounts determined as follows:
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, a quarterly charge equal to the sum:
(1) Ten dollars ($10.00) plus,
(2) The Combined Rate, payable quarterly.
(b) For premises and users to be billed by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (“NEORSD”) (or by the City of Cleveland as billing agent for NEORSD) in accordance with the agreement, as amended and supplemented, entered into pursuant to Ordinance No. 1976-176, passed July 6, 1976, in addition to any charges made by the NEORSD, a quarterly charge equal to the sum of:
(1) Ten dollars ($10.00), plus
(2) The Local Rate, payable quarterly.
(1) “Treatment rate” initially means the rate of $1.980 per hundred cubic feet (“CCF”), or part thereof, of water consumed or estimated to be consumed, provided however that upon any adjustment by NEORSD of its Subdistrict No. 2 Domestic Rate for Direct Service Communities which takes effect after the date of the passage of Ordinance No. 1995-247 (that rate in effect as of such date being $1.980 per CCF), the Treatment Rate then in effect shall be adjusted by a corresponding amount, which adjustment shall take effect on the same date (or, if later, on the Transition Date as provided in Section 10 of Ordinance No. 1995-247) as the effective date of the corresponding rate adjustment by NEORSD, unless the Council of this City, prior to such date, adopts legislation directing that such adjustment to the Treatment Rate then in effect shall not be made. For purposes of complying with the 1977 amendments to the Clean Water Act (PL 95-217), Section 204(b)(1), requiring that all users of a treatment facility paid for all or in part by grant funds pay an equitable user charge, the Treatment Rate shall be deemed to be such equitable user charge.
(2) “Local rate” initially means the rate of $1.90 per CCF, or part thereof, of water consumed or estimated to be consumed, which rate shall increase to $1.226 per CCF beginning January 1, 1997; to $1.262 per CCF beginning January 1, 1998; to $1.300 per CCF beginning January 1, 1999; and to $1.339 per CCF beginning January 1, 2000.
(3) “Combined Rate” means the sum of the Treatment Rate and the Local Rate.
(d) All users of the sanitary sewerage system, as hereinbefore defined, are hereby required to install meters to measure the quantities of water consumed upon the premises. Until the availability of such meters, the amount of water consumed shall be estimated as being 30 CCF per quarter for single family dwelling and for any other use shall be estimated on the basis of acceptable engineering principles and consumption of water on premises of similar or comparable use. If any user can show to the satisfaction of Council that a substantial portion of the water so metered will not enter the sanitary sewerage systems after connection to such systems is accomplished, a credit may be allowed such user in an amount determined by Council to be fair and reasonable in accordance with proof furnished by the user and corroborated by the City Engineer.
(e) Any adjustment in the Local Rate then in effect or the Treatment Rate then in effect shall result in a corresponding adjustment in the Combined Rate then in effect, and such rates, as so adjusted, shall be the effective rates for the consumption from and after the effective date provided therefor and thereafter until such rates again are adjusted as provided for above or by ordinance of Council, and shall be levied and charged upon each lot, parcel of land or other premises which is connected to or to which a public sewer is accessible or which discharges sewage, industrial waste, water or other liquid either directly or indirectly into the systems.
(Ord. 2006-239. Passed 12-4-06.)
(Ord. 2006-239. Passed 12-4-06.)