(A) Explanation of surcharges. All persons discharging industrial wastes into the town sanitary sewer system shall be rendered a monthly bill as a surcharge covering the entire costs to the town incurred by treating all wastes having a B.O.D. in excess of 250 parts per million by weight. Said surcharge shall be evoked as herein provided in addition to any sewer charge imposed after the adoption of this subchapter (effective date, January 30, 1973). The aforesaid surcharge shall include:
(1) All fixed charges and amortization costs of additional plant capacity required for treating said industrial wastes; and
(2) A charge covering the cost incurred to the town in treating said wastes in the municipal sewage treatment plants.
(B) Amount of surcharge. A surcharge per 1,000 pounds of biochemical oxygen demand, from time to time to be determined by the Board of Commissioners, shall be made to cover the fixed charges and amortization cost of additional plant capacity as hereinbefore described (see division (A)(1) above).
(C) Procedure. The surcharge covering the costs of the treatment (see division (A)(2) above) of said industrial wastes shall be arrived at in the following manner: the Board of Commissioners shall fix the rate to be charged during the new fiscal year at the beginning of said fiscal year for the weight of biochemical oxygen demand in excess of 250 parts per million which is discharged into the town sanitary sewers. This rate shall be computed from the actual costs per 1,000 pounds of biochemical oxygen demand removed from the combined sewage and industrial wastes as experienced at the municipal treatment plants during the preceding fiscal year.
(D) Billed. The combined surcharge, as set forth in divisions (B) and (C) above, shall be billed and payable monthly on a separate bill rendered to the proper persons by the Public Works Department.
(1) Said bills will be sent through the United States mail notifying all persons of the amount and date due. Failure to receive notice is not an excuse for nonpayment of bills.
(2) Persons not having paid their bill within ten days of the date of billing will be delinquent. Notice shall be sent them through the United States mail, and if after five days notice, given as above, the bills remain unpaid, the water connection serving the premises will be severed and will not be turned on again until said bill is paid.
(3) In case a person discharging wastes into the town sanitary sewer system does not procure his or her water supply from the town and becomes delinquent in his or her payment of the aforesaid surcharge, his or her connection with the town sewer system will be severed and will only be reconnected at his or her expense.
(Prior Code, § 51.68) (Ord. passed - -)