(a) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Sewer service rates are not codified herein since they are subject to frequent change. Please consult the City Clerk for information pertaining to such legislation currently in effect.)
(b) In the event a lot, parcel of land, building or premises discharging sewage, industrial waste, water or other liquids, either directly or indirectly into the City's sewer system, or which ultimately enters the sewer system, is supplied either in whole or in part with water from wells or any source other than the Water Division, then such wells or other source of supply shall be registered with the Division of Water Pollution Control and if the water from such wells or other source of supply is not measured by a water meter, or is measured by a water meter not acceptable to the Division, then in such case, the owner or other interested party, at his own expense, shall install and maintain water meters satisfactory to the Division on all supplies, and the quantity of water used to determine the sewage service charge shall be the quantity as measured by the single meter or the sum of the quantities measured by the several meters.
The charges for sewer service outside the City requiring the operation and maintenance of lift stations shall be negotiated by the Division to return the cost of such operation in addition to scheduled charges.
Certain types of domestic, business and industrial users may discharge into the sewer system clear water, or nonpolluting sewage, not contaminated as the usual sewage entering the system. If such users shall install and have in operation equipment to dispose of or divert such water and nonpolluting sewage from entering the system, they shall be exempt from payment of sewer service charges for such water or such sewage or wastes so disposed of or diverted.
When metered water is not a fair measure of the use of the sewer by any class of user, the Division may measure the effluents or wastes of users by meters or any other practicable method and determine the quantity and the constituents of the particular sewage for the purpose of establishing standards of equivalence to the rate paid when metered water is the measure so that a common rate will prevail as near as practicable among the various users of the system, based upon the use and cost of handling the wastes of users, which standards may be altered from time to time by the Division.
In the interim of the adoption of standards of equivalence of rates by any class of user, the Division may from time to time with the information available to it, establish interim equivalent standards for determining rates to be paid where the sewage delivered to the system is less in quantity than metered water of a user and of less strength than normal sewage or in either instance. The user will upon request furnish to the Division such data determining the quantity and quality of the sewage as may be practicable.
The expense of measuring and of measuring equipment shall be borne by the user as may be reasonably necessary and fairly chargeable to the user as the Division shall determine.
The Division may maintain studies of the types and characteristics of sewage and wastes originating with the users of the sewer system, and may employ competent engineering services to determine the same and to keep and maintain records thereof.
Where any sewage is determined to be nonpolluting under the statutes of West Virginia, the Division may permit diversion of the same and exempt the producer of such sewage from compulsory connection with the sewer system.
(Ord. 2153. Passed 5-25-54.)