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ORDINANCE 95- 25
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ELK RIVER
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1302.06 (2), USER CHARGES
FOR NORMAL DOMESTIC STRENGTH USERS, OF THE CITY OF
ELK RIVER CODE OF ORDINANCES
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The City Council of the City of Elk River does ordain as follows:
Section 1. That Section 1302.06, Subdivision (2) User Charges for
Normal Domestic Strength Users, is hereby amended as follows:
See Attached
Section 2. That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force
from and after the date of its publication.
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Passed and adopted this /25thday of September, 1995, by the City
Council of the City of Elk River.
ATTEST:
Sandra A.Thackera.y,Qity Qlek
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i. Measurement of Wastewater Volume for Domestic
Users:
a. Measurement of Wastewater Volume
for Domestic Users Connected to the City's Water
Utility:
Except as provided for herein,
billable wastewater volume for residential users
shall be calculated on the basis of metered water
usage. Metered water usage shall be determined by
calculating a monthly average based on water
consumption for the months of November, December,
January, February and March.Usage in excess of the
minimum rate will be billed on unit cost of 1,000
gallons per month.
b. Measurement of Wastewater Volume
for Domestic Users Not Connected to the City's
Water Utility:
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The charges assessed to residential
users who are not connected to the City's water
utility shall be established as a flat rate per
month based on the average water use of metered
residential users in the community.
The City reserves the right to require
residential users to install water meters for the
purpose of determining billable wastewater volume.
ii. Measurement of Wastewater Volume for Non-
Domestic Users:
The charges assessed non-domestic users
discharging "Normal Domestic Strength Wastewater" shall
be established proportionately according to billable
wastewater volume. Billable wastewater volume shall be
calculated as follows:
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The billable wastewater volume of non-domestic
users may be determined in the same manner as for
residential users connected to the City's water
utility, except that if the City determines that there
are significant seasonal variations in the metered
water usage of non-residential users resulting in a
proportionate increase (or decrease) in wastewater
volume; then billable wastewater volume shall be: 1}
calculated on the basis of monthly metered water usage
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recorded throughout the year, or 2) calculated on the
basis of wastewater flpw meters.
The City may, at its discretion, require
non-domestic users to install, at the user's expense, a
water meter, or such additional water meters or
wastewater flow meters as may be necessary to determine
billable wastewater volume.
iii. Determination of Loadings for Normal Domestic
Strength Users:
The billable amounts of BOD and TSS will be
calculated from the volume of metered water usage, as
determined above; where the billable quantities will be
those attributable to wastewater at a concentration of
200 mg/l BOD and 250 mg/l TSS (Le. "Normal Domestic
Strength Wastewater) .
iv. Determination of Loadings for Non-Domestic
Strength Users:
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The City may, at its discretion, require
non-domestic users to install a sewage monitoring
facility.
Each industrial user required by the City to
install and maintain sewage monitoring facilities shall
submit to the City a monthly report of daily flow and
BOD on a form approved by the City. This report shall
be used for billing purposes and shall be submitted
prior to the fifteenth (15) day of the subsequent
month.
The City shall have the right to periodically or
continuously inspect the monitoring facilities to
measure, sample and analyze the industrial user's flow
and to analyze the samples obtained by such user. In
the event of any discrepancy between the flows or loads
determined by the City and those determined by the
industrial user, the values determined by the City
shall be used for billing purposes.
B. Determination of User Charges for Normal Domestic
Strength Users:
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User Charges for Normal Domestic Users except senior citizens
and unmetered water users shall be calculated on a unit
charge for each 1,000 gallons. However, under no
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circumstance will a user be billed less than the minimum
charge. Senior citizens shall be charged for the actual
metered usage at the unit cost per 1,000 gallons. Unmetered
users shall be charged a flat fee calculated from the average
domestic usage throughout the community.
The user charges for the three classifications of Domestic
users shall be as follows:
i. Metered Water Users:
The per month billable wastewater volume shall be
an average of the metered water usage during the months
of November, December, January, February, and March.
ii. Unmetered Water Users:
Flat rate per household unit.
iii. Senior Citizens:
Actual metered water usage (rounded to 1,000 gallons).
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Mfidavit of Publication
STATE OF MINNESOTA
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COUNTY OF SHERBURNE)
being duly sworn, on oath sa s that he/she is the publisher or
authorized agent and employee of the publisher of the newspa-
per known as The Elk River Star News, and has full knowledge
of the facts which are stated below:
(A) The newspaper has complied with all the requirements
constituting qualification as a qualified newspaper, as provided
by Minnesota Statute 331A.02, 331A.07, and other applicable
laws, as amended.
(B) The printed l}J\(Q,0rttU/,~ q ~ -a5"
which is attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper,
and was printed and published once each week, for ( ~uc-
cessive weeks; it was first published on Wednesday, the '-/-
day of {)~~0 , 19 CJS:and was thereafter
printed and published on every Wednesday to and including
Wednesday, the_ day of ,19_;
and printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to
Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the size
and kind of type used in the composition and publication of the
notice.
'~r ~8IeiMe~red.
; btdetenPined. by
tptg 'a lI).onthly. aVw.ge/ b~ed :
on~-iwater coneumption. for the monthe
o ~vember, n.cember:,: _ JEnuary,
'8ty@d M iI~ein~exceee
o ii minimum ~ l ~ bill~on
, wlif Met"of 1,000 gall 'per mo",th. -
b~"'MeaeUrement 'of, Waetewater
i Voltime - for ,.nome~tic : Dsere - Not
" cted to the Citys Water Uti)iiy:,'
~s aSllee' ,to residel!:tial
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i'UII~d. &II a,;t1at rate
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, billable, w$Stewater ;volu~, ~Ulab,le-
'wastewater vohlme "hall be calculat-
ed. as follows: ': . - -,' ,-
, The billablehwaste~atervolume~f
- non-dome^stic uee,e - ~a>, "be' cleter-
mined in the eame' ier as for resi- '
dential ueere co , dto the CitYs
wai;erutiUty,- hat if the City
determinee that.tQe'" ar,e s;pificant
lIeasonal,variatio~ ,in the rpetered.
. . water. "'~e ,of no,n.~<<:eidenti~ueere '
re!lultinr m a proportionate mcrease
(or' de!l1'~) in w~tewater volume;
. th4ln billable'waS~wllter. volume shall
bel . 1) . calC11lated. oD, thl! basill of
monthly 'usl;lie record-
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RATE INFORMATION
(1) Lowest classified rate paid by
commercial users for comparable
space
(2) Maximum rate allowed by law for
the above matter
(3) Rate actually charged for the
above matter
$ \1,.':10
$ 16'~<'d-
$ l'Sa.t-;}-