§ 94-219. Sewer service charges.

(a)

Basis for sewer service charges. The sewer service charge shall be based on the sewer use charge. If any user of the sewer system procures any part or all of his water from sources other than the water utility, the user shall furnish, install and maintain at his expense water meters of a type approved by the water utility for the purpose of determining the volume of sewage discharged to the sewerage system as described in section 94-192. At the discretion of the village, a user procuring water from other sources than the water utility may be assigned a residential equivalent connection (REC) to be used as a basis for the sewer use charge as determined from section 94-193. If in the opinion of the village administrator the information in section 94-193 does not accurately reflect the user's wastewater discharge to the sewerage system, the village administrator may assign an REC to the user.

(b)

Sewer use charge.

(1)

A sewer use charge is imposed upon all users of the sewerage system. The sewer use charge shall have a component for recovering the operation, maintenance and replacement costs, a portion for recovering the capital costs and a portion for income credits of the sewer utility annual budget. On or before the first village board meeting in October of every year, the village administrator shall compute the sewer use charge. The operation, maintenance and replacement portion of the sewer use charge shall be computed by allocating the proposed net yearly operation, maintenance and replacement budget to the appropriate use factors. The cost per use factor shall be divided by the village in conjunction with the use factor to determine the unit cost ($/1,000 gallons, $/#) per use factor. The flow use factor will be determined by the village in conjunction with the water utility. The BOD, total suspended solids and phosphorous use factors will be determined from the concentration assigned to domestic wastewater plus surcharge user data. These use factors and the infiltration/inflow use factor will be determined by the village administrator, considering actual data for the previous 12-month period from the wastewater treatment facility and surcharge user data. The computations for recovering the capital cost portion of the sewer utility budget and for deriving the income credits will be computed in a similar manner.

(2)

The residential water consumption for sprinkling as determined by the water utility and any water credit meters for any refrigeration, air conditioning system or industrial cooling water not entering the sewerage system shall not be used in computing the sewer use charge.

(3)

The metered residential water use shall be adjusted to account for consumptive water use during the summer quarter. The volume used as the basis for the sewer service charge shall be the average quarterly water volume read by the village for the previous nine months.

(4)

Users with domestic wastewater connected to the sewerage system who derive all or part of their water discharged to the sewer system from other sources than the water utility and who do not have these other water sources metered will be charged for operation, maintenance and replacement costs based upon their assigned number of residential equivalent connections. The flow per residential equivalent connection will be computed by the water utility or the village administrator on or before the first village board meeting in October of every year and shall equal the water used by residential customer minus sprinkling credits divided by the number of residential water customers.

(Code 1983, § 13.38)