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A. Charges And Fees: The city may adopt charges and fees, which may include:
1. Fees for reimbursement of costs of setting up and operating the city's pretreatment program.
2. Fees for monitoring, testing, inspections and surveillance procedures.
3. Fees for reviewing accidental discharge procedures and construction.
4. Fees for permit applications.
5. Fees for filing appeals.
6. Fees to specific contributing industrial users for consistent removal, by the city, of pollutants otherwise subject to federal categorical pretreatment standard.
7. Other fees as the city may deem necessary to carry out the requirements contained herein.
These fees relate solely to the matters identified above and are separate from all other fees chargeable by the city.
B. City's Scheduling Of Charges And Fees:
1. A surveillance monitoring fee of three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) per installation of equipment shall be assessed against each user for which the city, rather than the user, installs surveillance monitoring equipment for the purpose of conducting wastewater sampling.
2. A sampling fee of one hundred thirty dollars ($130.00) per site visit for the purpose of wastewater sample collection shall be assessed against each user.
3. Fees for investigating accidental discharges shall be based on the time expended at twenty three dollars ($23.00) per hour.
4. Laboratory testing fees shall be based on actual expenses incurred for each parameter tested as specified in a fee schedule which the city shall approve and issue from time to time.
5. A wastewater discharge permit application fee shall be assessed each request for a wastewater discharge permit in the amount of twenty five dollars ($25.00). Wastewater discharge permit and/or permit renewal shall be assessed in the amount of two hundred dollars ($200.00). An additional fee shall be assessed in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for past due applications.
6. An appeal filing fee shall be assessed in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00). (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
The charge for making connection to an existing public sewer in the near vicinity of a property for which it is desired that service be provided shall be determined as follows:
A. Where the property to be served has been specifically assessed for the sewer facilities prior to the time of the application for connection, there shall be no additional connection charge, unless at the time of assessment a deficiency was allowed. Then, the sewer connection charge shall be equal to the deficiency previously allowed.
B. Where the property to be served has not been assessed or is not subject to an assessment of a special tax for the construction of the sewer facilities to which connection is sought and said sewer was built through assessments, the connection charge shall be equal to the average front footage charge assessed to all property on the sewer involved applied to the front footage of the property to be served. Where the property has frontage on two (2) intersecting streets, the footage to which the charge shall be applied shall be the one considered the front in all usual proceedings for assessments. Where unusual parcel shape would make the charge inequitable to the owner or to the city, the frontage shall be taken as the lot width at the face of the building.
C. Where the property to be served has not been subject to assessment for the cost of the public sewer, constructed before January 1, 1978, and the cost thereof was paid by general taxation, the sewer connection charge shall be calculated on the basis of five dollars fifty cents ($5.50) per front foot of actual lot frontage, as hereinabove defined, plus fifty dollars ($50.00) hookon.
D. Where the property to be served has not been subject to assessment for the cost of the public sewer constructed after January 1, 1978, and before January 1, 1982, and the cost thereof was paid by general taxation, the sewer connection charge shall be calculated on the basis of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per front foot of actual lot frontage as hereinbefore defined or the actual front footage construction cost (including engineering, real and administrative charges) whichever charge is lesser, plus a hookon charge in the amount of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per acre prorated to lesser portions of an acre with a minimum hookon charge of fifty dollars ($50.00) per hookon.
E. Where the property to be served has not been subject to assessment for the cost of the public sewer constructed after January 1, 1982, and the cost thereof was paid by general taxation, the sewer connection charge shall be calculated on the basis of the actual front footage construction cost (including engineering, real and administrative charges), plus a hookon charge in the amount of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per acre prorated to lesser portions of an acre with a minimum hookon charge of fifty dollars ($50.00) per hookon. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
F. The subject matter of this section is legally described as follows:
Property lying within the North One-half (1/2) of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 14, Township 88, Range 13 West, City of Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, except right-of-way of E. Shaulis Road and Hammond Avenue (hereinafter "described property").
All "described property" not currently assessed for the cost of the public sewer which proposes to be served by the public sewer or any extension of the public sewer shall be assessed a hookon charge at the rate of one thousand one hundred twenty four dollars sixty seven cents ($1,124.67) per acre. This hookon charge shall be paid in full by the developer in lump sum within thirty (30) days of the city council's acceptance of a subdivision final plat that is within the "described property". The areas to be used for calculating the hookon fee shall include the entire area of the subdivision, including street rights of way, and any included or adjoining areas not used for residential or commercial development, including, without limitation, ponds, lakes, and parks. Any area not included in a subdivision final plat but that is a part of the "described property" and which proposes to hook on to the public sewer or any extension of it shall, at the time the property owner or user applies to hook on to the public sewer or any extension of it, pay in full any lump sum it owes to hook on to the public sewer or any extension of it. Hookon charges for unplatted areas shall be determined by the size of the entire parcel being served.
G. The provisions of the hookon charge provided for in this section shall not apply to any property covered by a specific hookon charge ordinance. (Ord. 4469, 4-16-2001)
Before a permit for a new cross or lateral sewer connection to a main sewer shall be granted, the applicant shall have complied with the terms and conditions for such connection established by the city council. Such terms and conditions may include, but not be limited to, engineering design, construction standards, requirements for inspection of construction of the applicant's sewer, and the setting of equitable fees to be paid for the right to connect to public sewer and all facilities to which the sewer will be contributory. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
Such charges shall be due without regard to whether the facilities involved, trunk sewers or POTW have been paid for in full or whether prior assessments and other resources will cover all costs for such facilities. Connection charges shall be deemed a refund of amounts yet to be or previously paid by the city from its funds for the additional service made available to the applicant. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
No building sewer connection shall be made to a public sanitary sewer which is not in front of the property to be served unless the public sewer cannot feasibly be extended and the building sewer can be connected without creating difficulties for other utilities in the street or unless any such difficulties are offset by a definite public advantage in having the connection. No building sewer shall be connected directly into a manhole more than six inches (6") above the flow line therein. Where a public sewer is extended by an applicant at his own expense, it shall be constructed in accordance with the specifications of the city for public sewers and connection charges may be reduced by the cost thereof, in whole or in part. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
Any person which shall make a connection without paying connection charges due under this section 8-3A-4 or in any manner violate the other terms of this section 8-3A-4 shall be, upon conviction, deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine and imprisonment as provided by law. (Ord. 4261, 10-6-1997)
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