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Any user who violates the conditions of the wastewater discharge permit, and provisions of this chapter, applicable state and federal regulations or any of the following is subject to having his/her permit suspended or revoked:
(A) Failure of a user to factually report the wastewater constituents and characteristics of the discharge;
(B) Failure of the user to report significant changes in operations or wastewater constituents and characteristics;
(C) Refusal of reasonable access to the user's premises for the purpose of inspection or monitoring;
(D) Failure to report a chemical spill or accidental discharge.
(OC, § 5-2-30(g)) (Ord. passed 3-8-88)
RATES AND CHARGES
A schedule of charges and fees shall be adopted by the town which will enable the town to comply with the revenue requirements of the State Clean Water Grant Program, Pub. L. 92-506, Pub. L. 95-217, and which will distribute the cost of operation, maintenance and debt service of treatment works to each user in proportion to the user's contribution to the total waste loading of collection and treatment works. The charges and fees shall be determined in a manner consistent with the regulations of the grant programs that have benefitted the town and its industrial users. All industries using the town's treatment works are subject to Industrial Waste Surcharges on discharges whose characteristics exceed the limits set out in § 52.096 for certain pollutants.
(OC, § 5-2-36) (Ord. passed 3-8-88)
(A) All users are to be classified by the town either by assigning each one to a user classification category according to the principal activity conducted on the user's premises, by individual user analyzation or by a combination thereof. The purpose of the collective and/or individual classification is to facilitate the regulation of wastewater discharges based on wastewater constituents and characteristics to provide an effective means of source control, and to establish a system of charges and fees which will insure an equitable recovery of the town's cost.
(B) Users are hereby classed as nonindustrial and industrial, as follows:
(1) An industrial user is any user which meets the definition of an industry, as defined in § 52.002 with the definition of domestic strength waste for exclusion purposes, as follows:
Domestic Wastes | mg/l |
BOD | 250 |
Total suspended solids | 250 |
Ammonia Nitrogen | 2.5 |
Oil and grease | 50 |
pH | 6-9 |
No heavy metal, toxicants and the like | |
Hydraulic loading allowance of no greater than 20 gpd per employee | |
(2) A nonindustrial user is a user who does not meet the qualifications of an industrial user.
(OC, § 5-2-37) (Ord. passed 3-8-88)
The charges and fees as established in the town's schedules of charges and fees may include, but not be limited to the following:
(A) Tap (sewer connection) charges;
(B) User classification charges;
(C) Fees for extra monitoring, for example, that which requires costs above the average cost of assessing an average or representative analysis;
(D) Fees for permit applications;
(E) Appeal fees;
(F) Charges and fees based on hydraulic load and wastewater constituents and characteristics;
(G) Industrial waste surcharges;
(H) Ad valorem tax;
(I) Industrial cost recovery payments (if required by federal regulations).
(OC, § 5-2-38) (Ord. passed 3-8-88)
(A) Charges and fees shall be based upon a minimum basic charge for each premise, computed on the basis of wastewater from a domestic premise with the characteristics as given in § 52.096(B).
(B) The charges and fees for all classifications of users other than the domestic premise shall be based on the relative difference between the average wastewater constituents and characteristics of that classification as related to those of a domestic premise.
(C) The charges and fees established for permit users shall be based upon the measured or estimated constituents and characteristics of the wastewater discharge of that user which may include, but not be limited to, BOD, COD, suspended solids, ammonia nitrogen, oil and grease, chlorine demand and volume.
(OC, § 5-2-39) (Ord. passed 3-8-88)
(A) Surcharges.
(1) Mass Emission Rate, MER ( ) = MG x 8.34, where:
(a) MER is the mass emission rate in pounds of a particular constituent.
(b) MG is the millions of gallons of wastewater discharged.
(c) C is the concentration in mg/l of the particular constituent being charged for (for example: BOD, SS, ammonia nitrogen, COD and the like), and 8.34 is equal to the number of pounds/one gallon of water.
(2) The amount of the charge in dollars will be calculated as follows: Ao = R x MER ( ), where:
(a) Ao is equal to the amount of the charge in dollars.
(b) R is equal to the rate of charge per pound of constituent.
(c) MER ( ) is equal to the pounds of a constituent.
(B) Rates.
(1) The town shall annually review the actual cost of operation and maintenance of the town’s wastewater collection system and wastewater transmission and treatment charges, adjust the surcharge rates and the volume user charge rate (per 1,000 gallons) to reflect the true cost of constituent collection and treatment. The adjustments, if any, will become effective following the first day of each new fiscal year. The Board of Commissioners may review these rates and adjust them accordingly at any time it deems adjustments are in the best interest of the town.
(2) In addition, the town will establish connection charges, or tap-on charges, for various size service lines and shall review and adjust these charges annually. Also, the town may establish, review and change from time to time, other special service charges concerning the sewer system.
(OC, §§ 5-2-40 and 5-2-41) (Ord. passed 3-8-88)
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