22 - 2018 Water & Wastewater Cost of Service Study - Water & Sewer Rates

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"(b) Monthly residential customers" wastewater volume for put -poses of assessing the sewer charge shall be based upon one hundred percent (100%) of the actual metered potable water consumption averaged for the preceding November, January, and February consumption, which shall be known as the "flat winter average." Customers that do not have recorded water usage for each of the winter average months will have their winter average calculated based on the residential class average of 640 cubic feet. "Monthly commercial and industrial customers" wastewater volume shall be based upon one hundred (100) percent of the actual metered potable water consumption, except those customers whose wastewater is metered, and their volume shall be based upon one hundred (100) percent of the metered wastewater. The former shall be billed for one hundred (100) percent of the metered potable water and the latter shall be billed for one hundred (1.00) percent of the metered wastewater. "(c) Users desiring to discharge sewage into the City's sewerage system, the strength of'which sewage exceeds two hundred fifty (250) parts per million biochemical oxygen demand (1301)), two hundred fifty (250) parts per million of total suspended solids, (TSS),, or thirty (30) parts per million of ammonia (NH3), and which is acceptable under article III of this chapter, may do so upon written permission of the city and by paying a monthly treatment charge in the amount of ninety-five cents ($0.97) per pound of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) in excess of the allowable biochemical oxygen demand (BOD); fifty cents ($0.50) per pound of total suspended solids (TSS) in excess of the allowable total suspended solids (TSS); and thirty-eight cents ($0.34.) per pound of ammonia (NH3 ) in excess of the allowable ammonia strength. The city shall make the necessary tests of the user's sewage strength to determine this charge. The charge prescribed by this subsection shall be in addition to the charges prescribed in subsection (a) hereof."" Section 4. That water and sewer rates established in Sections 2 and 3 above shall be effective beginning with July 1, 2018 consumption. Section 5. All provisions of the ordinances of the City of Paris, Texas, in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed, and all other provisions of the ordinances of the City of Paris not in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance shall remain in full force and effect. Section 6. The repeal of any ordinance or part of ordinances affected by the enactment of this ordinance shall not be construed as abandoning any action now pending under or by virtue of such ordinance or as discontinuing, abating, modifying, or altering any penalty accruing or to accrue, or as affecting any rights of the municipality under any section or provisions of'any ordinance at the time of passage of this ordinance,, Pao e 3 of 4 Z�