(a) The City hereby establishes an industrial cost recovery system for the purpose of recovering, by the City from industrial uses of the public wastewater treatment facilities, each industrial users share of the Federal grant amount allocable to the treatment of waste from such users.
(b) The strength of the average residential waste discharge, having been established in Section 921.02(c), shall be applied in determining equivalent volumes of process waste or combined discharges of process and sanitary wastes for the purposes of industrial cost recovery.
(c) The Approving Authority of the City shall determine the identity of industrial users of the City treatment facility by:
(1) Conducting initially, and on an annual basis, a review of the accounts of the City water and sewer users whose water supply records indicate that 25,000 gallons per day, or more, of water is drawn by such user.
(2) Inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing, initially and on an annual basis, determine the equivalent volumes of process waste or combined discharges of sanitary and process waste contributions of such industrial users; and the monitoring of the wastes of possible contributors of toxic and/or other contaminate materials.
(d) Those persons determined to be industrial users, under the provisions of these regulations, shall be required to participate in the industrial cost recovery program.
(e) The City industrial cost recovery program will be in full force and effect for a period of thirty years.
(f) Except as otherwise provided by the Act, those industries required to participate in the City's industrial cost recovery program shall be required to make payment to such program no less often than annually. The first payment by an industrial user shall be made not later than one year after the user begins use of the treatment facilities.
(g) Those industrial users entering into an agreement with the City to reserve a certain capacity in the treatment facilities, shall make industrial cost recovery payments based on total reserved capacity in relation to the design capacity of such facilities. If the discharge of an industrial user exceeds the reserved capacity in volume, strength or delivery flow rate characteristics, the user's industrial cost recovery payment shall be increased to reflect the actual use of the treatment facilities. If there is no agreement between the industrial users and the City regarding reserve capacity, and there is a substantial change in the strength, volume, or delivery flow rate characteristics of an industrial user's discharge, such user's share shall be adjusted proportionately.
(h) If there is an upgrading of the treatment facilities, each existing industrial user's share shall be adjusted proportionately.
(i) If there is an expansion of the treatment facilities, each industrial user's share shall be adjusted proportionately, except that a user with reserved capacity under subsection (g) hereof, shall incur no additional industrial cost recovery charge unless the user's actual use exceeds its reserved capacity.
(j) There are no industrial users of the Roanoke Area sanitary sewer system. Upon an industrial user's application for admission to the Roanoke Area sewer system and the City's subsequent approval for admission to the wastewater collection and treatment facilities, each industrial user must agree to the requirement of industrial cost recovery. At such time, each industrial users industrial cost recovery charge shall be computed on the basis of design for each unit operation and the cost identified with each unit of operation shall form the basis of the industrial cost recovery charges. The design parameters shall include, at a minimum, flow, solids and organic loadings. The remaining capital expenditures not identified under a major unit process will be proportioned in the same ratios as the totals for the major unit processes. The industries industrial cost recovery charge shall then be calculated on the basis of it's contribution of each of the design parameters multiplied by the established parameter's unit cost. Calculations supportive of the industrial cost recovery charge shall be filed at the office of the Approving Authority.
(Ord. 1350. passed 11-16-78.)