HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 1110ORDINANCE NO. 1110
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS
OF LODl CITY CODE, CHAPTER 20 RE SEWER
CHARGES AND CONNECTION FEES
WHEREAS, the public health of the City of Lodi required the reconstruction
and additions to the sanitary sewage disposal facilities of the City of Lodi, and
WHEREAS, a part of the financing and funding for the reconstruction of said
facility was obtained through the United States Government, "Environmental
Protection Agency (Water Quality Office), I' and
WHEREAS, a part of the conditions of the grant of said funds to City requires
that the City of Lodi charge users of said sanitary disposal system an amount of
money that will help pay the City's cost of said construction and also provide
funds for future maintenance costs of the entire sewer system, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that the aforesaid levies and charges be fixed
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immediately ,
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council enacts this ordinance as an urgency
ordinance.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Lodi as follows:
There is hereby added to the Lodi City Code a new section to be numbered
Sec. 20-IA to read as follows:
SEC. 20-1A. CLASSIFICATION OF SEWER SERVICE CHARGESlANQ GONNECTION FEES
All discharges shall be classified for wastewater collection, treatment, and
disposal purposes in accordance with the principle activity conducted upon the
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premise, as determined by the Public Works Director. The purpose of classifica-
tion is to facilitate the regulation of wastewater discharge based on quantity and
quality of flow, to provide an effective means of industrial waste source control,
and to establish a system of sewage service charges and connection fees which
will insure recovery of City capital, operating and maintenance costs in an
equitable manner.
Sec. 20-2 of the Code of the City of Lodi is hereby repealed and a new
section to be numbered Sec. 20-2 is hereby enacted to read in full as follows:
’ SEC. 20-2. DOMESTIC SYSTEM SEWER SERVICE CHARGES AND CONNECTION
FEES
A. General. Charges for use of the domestic sewer system shall be determined
by the volume, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and suspended solids
(SS) of wastes discharged.
Those residential, commercial, and industrial users whose discharge of
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wastes are of moderate strength -- (I-ess than300 -mg/l -of BOD alid SSY with
volume being fhe only significant variation shall pay charges as determined in
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Sec. 20-2C, herein.
having high-strength wastes (over 300 mg/l of BOD or SS) and/or high-
Those dischargers, of industrial and commercial wastes,
volume discharges shall pay charges as determined in Sec. 20-20, herein.
Selection of the method to be used for determining thel service charge
for each specific discharger shall be made by the Public Works Director.
6. Sewage Service Unit. A sewage service unit shall be the basis for
charging residential, commercial, and industrial dischargers with a
moderate-strength waste. One unit is established as equal to the flow
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from a two-bedroom residence (280 gal per day), and having a strength
less than 300 mg/l of BOD and SS.
and moderate-strength waste wil I be assigned sewage service units.
minimum sewage service units assigned to any commercial and industrial
dischargers shall be 1 .O unit.
All dischargers having low flow
The
C. Moderate-Strength Sewage Service Charges. The cost of treating one
sewage service unit is calculated annually by dividing the total operating,
maintenance, and capital costs of wastewater facilities allocated to moderate-
strength dischargers by the total number of units. Service charges for users
in each category shall be determined by multiplying the unit cost by the
number of sewage service units for each category.
(1) Residential sewage service charges shall be based upon the number of
bedrooms per dwelling unit as follows:
Number of
Bedrooms ._ --
Sewage
S-e r vi c e
Units
0.75
1 .oo
1.25
1.50
1.75
2 .oo
2.25
2.54
3.39
4.24
5.09
5.93
6.78
7.62
lBased on the 1977 cost of treating one sewage service unit of
$40.64 per year.
(2) Commercial and industrial sewage service charges shall be based on the
number of sewage service units assigned to each category of user as follows:
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Number Category
Meeting place, religious
Meeting place, public
Hotel, motel
Veterinary clinic
Post Office
Funeral parlor
Service station pumps
Car wash bays
School, 8th grade &
below
10.
41.
12.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
High school
Eating place, seating only
Eating place, seating &
take -out
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Eating place, take-out
only
Lunch truck business
laundry, coin op., reg.
mach.
Laundry, coin op., big
mach.
Comm. laundry &
dry cleaning
Doctor's office
Dentist's office
Chiropractor's office
X-ray Laboratory
Unit of Measure
Sewage Service
Units Monthly Rate
Ea 200 seats
Ea 100 seats
Ea 5 beds
Ea 10 kennels
Ea 25 employees
Ea 2 employees
Ea 3 pumps
Ea bay
Ea 25 students
Ea 20 students
Ea 10 seats
Ea 7 seats
Ea 5 employees
Ea 5 employees
Ea 2 machines
Ea machine
Ea 2 employees
Ea 10 employees
Ea 5 employees
Ea 10 employees
Ea 10 employees
One sewage
service unit
shall be assigned
to each unit of
measure.
-C.e.es&d Ihe.
based on near-
est one-tenth
sewage -service
unit except
minimum number
of sewage sqrvice
units shall be 1 .O
ihall be based
>n $40.64 per
fear per total
lumber of sewage
,ervice units
xssigned to each
:ategory .
N um ber Cateaorv
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
"I
Office, store, ware house
Bar
Barber, beabty shop
Hospi ta I, conva I escent
home
Rest & retirement home
Mobile home park
Unit of Measure
Ea 10 employees
Ea 25 seats
Ea 4 chairs
Ea 2 beds
Ea 3 beds
1 pad = .75 units
Sewage Service
Unit Monthly Rate
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D. High-Strength Sewage Service Charge. High-strength and/or high-volume
waste discharger sewage service charges shall be determined based upon
the actual quantity of flow, BOD, and SS discharged annually.
unit cost of collection, treatment, and disposal for each constituent (i.e.,
flow, BOD, SS) shall be determined annually and multiplied by the
measured effluent quality and quantity for each discharger to develop
The
--the, annwILsewage- service charge. -
The unit cost for each of the above constituents shall be determined
by: 1 ) distributing the total capital, operation, and maintenance costs
between moderate-strength and high-strength users, 2) proportion the
annual costs for high-strength dischargers among the various constituents,
and 3) divide the total annual cost for each constituent by the total
ewantity discharged by the high-strength dischargers.
operation and maintenance costs shall be in accordance with the following
Allocation of capital,
schedule:
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BOD SS -- Flow -
Capital Costs 52% 28% 20%
Operation and Maintenance Costs 34% 33% 33%
Based on the foregoing schedule, the unit costs are determined to be
as follows:
Constituent
Flow
BOD
ss
(1) Based on 1977 costs.
$1 95.80/MG
96.22/1000 I bs .
78.27/1000 Ibs.
The sewage service charge shall be determined by multiplying the
unit cost by the annual quantity of each constituent.
E. Connection Fees. All new connections shall be charged a fee which will
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normally be paid at the time of issuance of a building permit. The fee
shall cover the proportionate capital cost required to provide for future
treatment plant capacity which will be utilized by the new dischargers.
Each new connection shall be assigned to the moderate-strength or high-
strength category by the Public Works Diredo r.
(1) Moderate-strength discharger-connection fees shall be based on a rate
of $290.00 per sewage service unit assigned to the user (e.g., con-
nection fee for a 4-bedroom dwelling or a doctor's office with facilities
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for fifteen employees would be $435 .OO). The mi nimum connection
fee for a commercial or industrial user shall be one sewage service
unit.
(2) Highstrength discharger-connection fees shall be based on a unit
rate for each constituent (i.e., flow, BOD, and SS).
annual quantities of each constituent shall be justified to and approved
by the Public Works Director for the purpose of determining the con-
nection fee.
The estimated
The connection fee for high-strength dischargers shall be deter-
mined, based upon the following specific constituent unit costs:
Constituent Unit Cost
Flow
BOD
ss
$93.67/M G
28.70/1000 I bs .
17.28/1000 Ibs.
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The discharger, after one full year of operating data is available,
may request the Public Works Director to make an adjustment if a
significant variation exists between the estimated and actual quantities
for each constituent. Increases in connection fees shall be due and
payable on demand at the time the Public Works Director makes the
fee adjustment.
the following year's sewage service charge.
Decreases in connection fees shall be credited to
Sec. 20-4 of the Code of the City of Lodi is hereby repealed and a new
section to be numbered Sec. 20-4 is hereby enacted to read in full as follows:
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SEC. 20-4. INDUSTRIAL WASTE SYSTEM SEWER SERVICE CHARGES AND
CONNECTION FEES
A. General. Charges for use of the industrial waste system shall be
determined by the volume and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) of
wastes discharged.
B. Sewage Service Charges. Industrial waste system sewage service charges
shall be determined based upon the actual quantity of flow and BOD
discharged annually. The unit cost for each constituent (i.e., flow,
BOD),wiII be determined annually and multiplied by each discharger's
measured effluent constituents. The total of the two constituent fees
shall be the annual sewage service charge.
The unit cost for each constituent shall be determined by distributing
the total operation, maintenance, and capital costs to each constituent
at the proportionate rate of 91 percent to flow and 9 percent to BOD,
and dividing each- proportionate cost by- the total annual quantity of
each constituent discharged to the system.
Industrial sewage service charges shall be determined based upon the
following schedule of unit costs:
Constituent Unit Cost"
Flow $2&4.23/M G
BOD 4.45/1000 lbs .
"These unit costs shall be adjusted when the actual quantity
of constituents have been determined by monitoring.
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C. Connection Fees. A one-time connection fee shall be charged on
all new connections to the industrial waste system, which shall
normally be paid at the time of issuance of a building permit.
shall be determined on an individual basis by the Public Works Director
Fees
and shall be, in part, based upon the value of existing capacity to be
utilized and/or the cost of providing additional new capacity. The method
for determining the value of the existing capacity shall be on a unit con-
stituent basis as contained in the following schedule:
Constituent
Flow
Unit Cost
$107.99/MG
BOD 1 .70/1000 Ibs .
A new section to be numbered Sec. 20-20 is hereby added to Chapter 20 of
the Lodi City Code. Said section shall read in full as follows:
SEC. 20-20. APPEAL PROCEDURE
The owner or occupants of any premises who finds that the foregoing charges or any
other provision of this ordinance are unjust or inequitable: may make written application
to the Public Works Director. He must state any special circumstances that exist, show
why a different basis of charges for sewer are applicable to his premises or indicate why relief
from the provision of this ordinance should be made. The Public Works Director may accept
the application, reject the application for sound reasons, or direct the applicant, at his
sole expense, to maintain and operate in a manner satisfactory to the Public Works
Director such indicating or integrating meters as may be required to properly
measure the flow, establish sampling equipment, tests, and procedures satisfactory
to the Public Works Director to determine the SS or the BOD of the wastes.
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The foregoing Ordinance No. 11 10 was introduced and
adopted as an emergency ordinance by a four-fifths (4/5) vote
of the City Council in a regular meeting of the City Council of
the City of Lodi held on the 1st day of June, 1977 by the follow-
ing vote:
Ayes : Councilmen - EHRHARDT, HUGHES,
K A T Z AKIA N, PINKE RTON
and KATNICH
Noes : Councilmen - None
Absent: Councilmen - None
Approved this 1st day of June 1977
WALTER-J. KATNICH
Mayor
ATTEST: ALICE M. RI~IMCHE
City Clerk
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