(a) On or before July 1, 1980, and each year thereafter on or before July 1, the Finance Director may submit to the City Manager a recommended system of user charges, debt service charges, extra strength surcharges, industrial cost recovery charges and connection charges. The City Manager shall submit the schedule of charges with his or her recommendations to the City Council at its first regular meeting in October. The system shall be in accordance with the following requirements:
(1) The system shall result in the distribution of the costs of operation and maintenance of the sewerage works to each user class in proportion to such user's contribution to the total wastewater loading of the treatment works. Factors such as strength, volume, and delivery flow rate characteristics shall be considered and included as the basis for the user's contribution to ensure a proportional distribution of operation and maintenance (including replacement) costs to each user class;
(2) The system shall be reviewed annually and revised periodically to reflect actual operation, maintenance and replacement costs of the sewerage works;
(3) The system shall generate sufficient revenue to offset the costs of all sewerage works operation and maintenance provided by the City and such other expenditures authorized by subsection (b) hereof;
(4) The cost of treating and handling the extra constituents of BOD5, suspended solids and phosphorous shall be determined and reported in the schedule of extra strength surcharges, at a cost per pound for each constituent; and
(5) In order to establish the industrial waste surveillance charge, the cost shall be determined by calculating the actual cost of gathering samples, testing and reporting the results of analysis, and distributing such cost proportionately to the appropriate users.
(b) Funds received from the industrial wastewater surveillance charge shall be deposited into the Sewer Fund.
(c) In connection with the administration of this chapter, reference is made to § 1044.07, specifically those provisions pertaining to control manholes, wastewater volume determination, sampling and monitoring, and analyses.
(d) The results of routine sampling and analysis by the owner will be used to determine the extra strength surcharges. However, the City may, at any period of time and of such duration and in such manner as the City may elect, determine the strength of the discharge wastewater for purposes of verification. If the owner fails to file the necessary annual reports, the strength determined by the City's analysis will be used to determine the amount of the surcharges. Similarly, the surcharges shall be applied to the total metered water consumption if the owner fails to file the required annual report.
(e) If necessary, the City shall have the right to enter and set up, on company property, such devices as are necessary to conduct a gauging and sampling operation and to begin such operation without advance notice to the company or owner. While performing the work, the City's personnel shall observe all safety rules applicable to the premises, as established by the company.
(f) Where a company has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry onto such company's premises is granted, such company shall either make necessary arrangements with its security guards that, upon showing proper identification, personnel from the City will be permitted to enter, without delay, for the purpose of obtaining samples (grab or composite) of wastes being discharged at the various sampling points, or shall install suitable gauging and sampling manholes outside the security limits, which manholes will at all times be immediately accessible to City personnel.
(g) If a person disagrees with the analysis on which the surcharges are based, he or she may request, in writing, an additional sampling and analysis which shall be conducted in a manner acceptable to the Director of Public Service. In such case, such person shall be billed for twenty-five percent (25%) of an additional surveillance charge in order to cover the cost of such additional sampling and analysis.
(Ord. 82-14, passed 3-25-1982; Ord. 2022-44. Adopted 11/22/22)