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"(b) Monthly residential customers' wastewater volume for purposes of <br />assessing the sewer charge shall be based upon one hundred percent (100%) <br />of the actual metered potable water consumption averaged for the preceding <br />November, January, and February consumption, which shall be known as the <br />"flat winter average." Customers that do not have recorded water usage for <br />each of the winter average months will have their winter average calculated <br />based on the residential class average of 577 cubic feet. <br />"Monthly commercial and industrial customers' wastewater volume shall <br />be based upon one hundred (100) percent of the actual metered potable <br />water consumption, except those customers whose wastewater is metered, <br />and their volume shall be based upon one hundred (100) percent of the <br />metered wastewater. The former shall be billed for one hundred (100) <br />percent of the metered potable water and the latter shall be billed for one <br />hundred (100) percent of the metered wastewater. <br />"(c) Users desiring to discharge sewage into the City's sewerage system, the <br />strength of which sewage exceeds two hundred fifty (250) parts per million <br />biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), two hundred fifty (250) parts per million <br />of total suspended solids, (TSS), or thirty (30) parts per million of ammonia <br />(NH3), and which is acceptable under article III of this chapter, may do so <br />upon written permission of the city and by paying a monthly treatment <br />charge in the amount of ninety-seven cents ($0.97) per pound of biochemical <br />oxygen demand (BOD) in excess of the allowable biochemical oxygen <br />demand (BOD); fifty cents ($0.50) per pound of total suspended solids (TSS) <br />in excess of the allowable total suspended solids (TSS); and thirty-four cents <br />($0.34) per pound of ammonia (NH3 ) in excess of the allowable ammonia <br />strength. The city shall make the necessary tests of the user's sewage <br />strength to determine this charge. The charge prescribed by this subsection <br />shall be in addition to the charges prescribed in subsection (a) hereof." <br />Section 4. That water and sewer rates established in Sections 2 and 3 above shall <br />be effective beginning with July 1, 2019 consumption. <br />Section S. All provisions of the ordinances of the City of Paris, Texas in conflict with the <br />provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed, and all other provisions of the ordinances of <br />the City of Paris not in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance shall remain in full force <br />and effect. <br />Section 6. The repeal of any ordinance or part of ordinances affected by the enactment <br />of this ordinance shall not be construed as abandoning any action now pending under or by <br />virtue of such ordinance or as discontinuing, abating, modifying, or altering any penalty <br />accruing or to accrue, or as affecting any rights of the municipality under any section or <br />provisions of any ordinance at the time of passage of this ordinance. <br />Page 3 of 4 <br />