10.03.230 Sewer User Fees.
(1) The schedule of charges to be imposed for regular monthly service rendered to the users of the sewer system of Provo City shall be based, insofar as possible, upon the amount of culinary water consumed by such use. The Director may, under abnormal circumstances, make adjustments as needed to ensure equitable service charges. The Director may make such adjustments where excessive quantities of culinary water are metered which are consumed on the premises and which do not enter the sewage system. The consumer will have the burden of proving such inequities by showing that the quantity metered exceeds by at least twenty percent (20%) the total flow to the sewer system in order to merit consideration by the Director. Reductions shall be based on the cost listed on the adjusted meter rate. This provision shall apply to all of the following provisions:
(2) Service Charges. All sewer accounts shall be charged a monthly minimum charge, plus a usage fee as shown on the Consolidated Fee Schedule adopted by the Municipal Council. During the winter months of each year, an average monthly water consumption shall be determined by the Director for single-family residential and other approved customers, and this average monthly water consumption shall be the basis for sewer billing for the next twelve (12) month period. Any accounts whose summertime or other unusual usage is shown to include more than twenty percent (20%) of the metered water which does not enter the sewer system, as determined by the Director, may have their discharge to the sewer established by their wintertime usage or some other means approved by the Director.
(3) Metering of Sewer Lines. Metering of sewer lines will be allowed subject to the following requirements:
(a) The user will furnish and install the meter per the City’s standards and specifications at the user’s expense.
(b) When the City requires or approves the installation of a meter on a user’s sewage flow, the charges for sewer service will be based upon the sewer meter rather than upon the water meter readings.
(c) Sewer meters shall be maintained by the City at the users’ expense.
(4) Surcharges.
(a) Any person receiving City sewer service who causes a concentration of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) exceeding an average of three hundred (300) mg/liter to be discharged into the City sewer system shall pay a surcharge as shown on the Consolidated Fee Schedule adopted by the Municipal Council.
(b) Any person receiving City sewer service who causes a concentration of suspended solids (SS) exceeding an average of three hundred fifty (350) mg/liter to be discharged into the City sewer system shall pay a surcharge as shown on the Consolidated Fee Schedule adopted by the Municipal Council.
(c) Any person receiving sewer service who causes a concentration of oil or grease (O&G) exceeding one hundred (100) mg/liter to be discharged into the sewer system shall pay a surcharge as shown on the Consolidated Fee Schedule adopted by the Municipal Council. In addition, sewer service may be discontinued at any location from which concentrations of more than one thousand (1,000) mg/liter of oil or grease are discharged.
(d) The owner shall test concentration levels not less than once each ninety (90) days and provide information to the City. The most recent test result shall be the basis for calculating surcharges. A reasonable number of additional tests for concentration levels shall be prepared at the request of a sewer service customer. For such additional tests the customer shall pay a fee as shown on the Consolidated Fee Schedule adopted by the Municipal Council for each test which shows a concentration which subjects the customer to a surcharge.
(5) New Connections. New connections which do not have sufficient data to establish the monthly discharge to the sewer shall be assessed monthly charges as shown on the Consolidated Fee Schedule adopted by the Municipal Council until such data is available.
(6) Stopped Meters. Usage for the previous year during the same period shall be used to establish billings with adjustments for previous months’ usage where the meters have been stopped.
(7) Sewage Treatment Plant Charges for Hauled-In Waste. Trucked-in waste shall not be permitted in the Provo City Water Reclamation Plant without the completion of a waste manifest describing the source and nature of the waste being discharged and its approval by the control authority. Charges for hauled-in sewage shall be as shown on the Consolidated Fee Schedule adopted by the Municipal Council.
(8) Charges to Buildings Not Connected to Available Sewer. Pursuant to Section 10.03.080, Provo City Code, any buildings used for human occupancy which are within three hundred (300) feet of an available and suitable sanitary sewer and are not connected to said sewer shall be charged at the rate shown on the Consolidated Fee Schedule adopted by the Municipal Council until such time that they are connected, after which the applicable user rate charge shall apply.