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ORDINANCE NO. 339
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7, CHAPTER 5, OF THE REVISED AND COMPILED ORDINANCES
OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTY, IDAHO, BY REPEALING CERTAIN SECTIONS THEREOF
AND BY ADDING THERETO A COMPREHENSIVE PROVISION REGULATING AND ADMINISTERING THE
SEWERAGE SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN WHICH SPECIFICALLY PROVIDES FOR A PURPOSE;
DEFINITIONS; JURISDICTIONAL STATEMENT; REQUIRED USE OF SEWERS; USE OF THE PUBLIC
SEWERS; INJURY TO SEWERAGE SYSTEM UNLAWFUL; PERMISSION TO DISCHARGE OBJECTIONABLE
WASTE OR WATER; BUILDING SEWERS AND SERVICE CONNECTIONS; INDUSTRIAL USERS; POWERS
AND AUTHORITY OF CITY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE; INSPECTION; REJECTIONS OR DIS-
APPROVALS; BACKFILLING; SEWER LINE EXTENSIONS; SEWER BOARD OF APPRAISERS; DUTIES
OF THE SEWER BOARD OF APPRAISAL; SEWER CHARGE APPRAISAL; FINAL APPROVAL OF
SCHEDULE OF CHARGES, RATES AND FEES; BASIS FOR SE~R CI1ARGES; SEWER USER CHARGES
AND CONNECT I ON FEES; SEWER, CONNECTI ON, PERMIT AND INSPECTION; SB~R CONNECTI ON
CHARGE; INDUSTRIAL USER CHARGES; INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY; SPECIAL SEWER USER
CHARGE FOR OUTSIDE THE CORPORATE LIMITS; MONTHLY USER CHARGES, WHEN DUE AND
PAYABLE; DELINQUENCY; NOTICE; SEWERAGE SYSTEM FUND UNAVAILABILITY OF PUBLIC
SEWER; PENALTIES; REPEALER CLAUSE; EFFECTIVE DATA; AND A SAVINGS CLAUSE.
WHEREAS, The City Council and .the Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho,
have concluded that it is in the best interest of said City to repeal portion
of Title 7, Chapter 5, of the Revised and Compiled Ordinances of the City, and
to leave portions thereof effective, and to adopt comprehensive provisions
relating the regulating and administering the sewerage system of the City of
Meridian,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY _THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MERIDIAN, PJJA COUNTY, IDAHO.
Section 1. That Sections 7-505, 7-508, 7-511, 7-512, 7-513, 7-514, 7-515,
7-516, 7-518, 7-519 and 7-524, of Chapter 5, Title 7, of the Revised and Com-
piled Ordinances of the City of Meridian are hereby repealed.
Section 2. That the following specific provisions relating to the regula-
ting and administering the sewerage system of the City of r~eridian are hereby
adopted and shall be known as Sections 7-525 through 7-556 and shall read as
follows:
7-525. PURPOSE. It is hereby determined and declared to be necessary and
conducive to and for the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the
public and inhabitants of the City, and for the purpose of controlling the use
"and cormection to and for providing an equitable distribution of the costs and
(expenses of maintenance, operation, upkeep, and repair of the entire sewerage
system which includes the sewer collection system and sewage disposal facilities
, of said City, to charge and collect service charges or r:f~s upon all lots,
lands, property and premises served or benefited by the sewe~age system of t~e
City, which system and facilities consist generally of all plpe lines, condults,
catch basins, manholes, clean outs, sewer mains, intercepting sewers, outfall
sewers, lift stations, pumps, structures, mechanical equipment and faci~ities
for the treatment and disposal of sewage or sewage by-products; to provlde for
Industry Cost Recovery from all industrial users; and to provide for the con-
trol, use and administration of the installation of private sewage disposal
systems where a public sanitary sewer is not available. -
7-526 DEFINITIONS. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the
meaning of terms used in this Ordinance shall be as follows:
A. Act. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act entitled Public
Law 92-500, and its amendments of 1972 as administered by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA);
B. BOD. Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) shall mean the quantity
of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic mat~er ~d~r stan-
dard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at 20~C, expressed ln mllllgrams
per liter (mg/l);
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C. Building Drain. That part of the lowest horizontal piping
of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other
drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the build-
ing sewer, beginning five (5) feet outside the inner face of the building
wall;
D. Building Sewer. The extension from the building drain to
the point of connection with the public sewer or other place of disposal;
E. City. Refers to the City of Meridian, Ada County, Idaho,
or its authorized or designated agent, representative, or deputy thereto;
F. Combined Sewer. A sewer receiving both surface runoff and
sewage;
G. Flow. (Q). The volume of sewage being discharged into the
sewage system;
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H. Garbage. Solid wastes from the domestic and commercial
preparation, cooking and dispensing of food, and from the handling, stor-
age and sale of produce;
T. Industrial Cost Recovery. Financial recovery by the City,
from the industrial users of the sewerage system, of that portion of the
U. S. Government grant amount allocable to the treatment of wastes from such
users pursuant to Section 204(b) of the Act;
J. Industrial User. Any nongovernmental user of publicly
owned treatment works identified in the Standard Industrial Classification
Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented
under the following divisions:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Division A -
Division B -
Division D -
Division E -
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
Mining
Manufacturing
Transportation, Communications, Electric,
Gas and Sanitary Services
Services
Division I -
An industrial user is also defined as follows:
(a) A nongovernmental, nonresidential user which discharges
more than the equivalent of 25,000 gallons per day of sanitary waste and which
lS identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual under divisions
A, B, D, E, and I.
(b) A user which discharges any wastewater containing toxic
pollutants or which has any other adverse effect on the treatment works; or
(c) A commercial user of an individual system.
A user in the Divisions listed may be excluded if it is
determined that it will introduce primarily segregated domestic wastes
or wastes from sanitary conveniences;
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K. Industrial Wastes. The liquid wastes from industrial manu-
facturing processes, trade or business as distinct from sanitary sewage;
L. Multiple Building Development. Includes the various types
of developments that would have common or jOint ownership areas such as .
condominiums, townhouses, mobile home parks or courts, shopping centers,
e.tc. ;
M. Natural Outlet. Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch,
lake, or other body of surface or groundwater;
N. Owner. A person owning real estate which lS, or proposes
to be, connected to the sewage system;
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O. Person. Any individual, firm, company, association, society,
corporation, Or group;
P. pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of
hydrogen-ions in grams per liter of solution with a pH value of 7 being
neutral;
Q. Properly Shredded Garbage.. The wastes from the preparation,
cooking, and dispensing of food that have been shredded to such a degree
that all particles will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally
prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half (1/2)
inch in any dimension;
R.Public Sewer. A sewer in which all owners of abutting pro-
perties have equal rights, and is controlled by public authority;
S. Sani tary Sewer. A sewer which carr;ies sewage and to which
storm, surface, and groundwaters are not admitted;
T. Service Connection. The point at which the building sewer
connects to the public sewer;
U. Sewage or Waste Water. A combination of the water-carried
wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions, and industrial
establishments, together with such ground, surface and stormwaters as may
be present;
V. Sewage Treatment Plant or Waste Water Treatment Facility.
Any devices and system used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and
reclamation of municipal sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature to
implement Section 201 of the Act;
W. Sewer. A pipe or conduit for carryIng sewage;
X. Sewerage System. All facilities for collecting, pumping,
treating, and disposing of sewage;
Y. Sewer User. Any individual, firm, company, association,
society or corporation or group who has connected to the sewerage system;
Z. Shall. "Shall" is mandatory; "May" is permissive;
M. Slug. Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste
which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow
exceeds for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes for more
than five (5) times the average twenty-four (24) hour concentration or
flows during normal operation; .
BB. Storm Drain. (sometimes termed Storm Sewer) A sewer which
carries storm and surface waters and drainage, but excludes sewage and
industrial wastes, other than unpolluted water such as cooling water;
ce. Suspended Solids. Solids, organic or inorganic, that
either float on the surface of, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or
other liquids, and which are removable by laboratory filtering as pre-
scribed in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water"
and referred to a non filterable residue; and,
DD. Watercourse. A channel in which a flow of water occurs,
either continuously or intermittently.
7-527. TO WHOM CHAPTER APPLICABLE. The provisions of this Ordinance
shall apply to all property within the Corporate Limits of the City, and
any special users outside of the Corporate Limits of the City, including
all property owned or occupied by the United States of America, Ada County,
and the State of Idaho.
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7-528. REQUIRED USE OF SEWERS. The owner or occupant of any house, building
or property used for residential, commercial, industrial, governmental or recre-
ational use, or other purpose, situated within the City which is abutting on or
having a permanent right of access to any street, alley or right-of-way in
which there is located a public sewer of said City is hereby required to cease
using any other method of disposing of sewage, waste or polluted water, and at
his expense to connect such building directly with the public sewer in accor-
dance with the provisions of this Ordinance, within fifteen (15) days after date
of official notice from the City to do so, provided however, that said sewer is
within three hundred (300) feet of any property line of the building to be served
or common property line in a multiple building development.
The developer of a new subdivision shall, at his expense, con-
struct the necessary extensions of the public sewer system to provide public
sewer facilities for each lot in his subdivision.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to place or deposit in any
unsanitary manner on public or private property within the City, or in any
area under the jurisdiction of said City, any hlll1lan or animal excrement,
garbage or other objectionable waste.
It shall be unlawful to discharge to any natural outlet within
the City, or in any area under the jurisdiction of said City, any sewage or
other polluted waters, except where suitable treatment has been provided in
accordance with subsequent provisions of this Ordinance.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct
or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facilities
intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
7-529. USE OF THE PUBLIC SEWERS. The use of the public sewers of the
City shall be in accordance with the fallowing regulations:
A. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged from
any connection any stormwater, surface water, groundwater, roof runoff,
subsurface drainage, uncontaminated cooling water or unpolluted industrial
process waters to any sanitary sewer;
B. Storrnwater and all other unpolluted drainage shall be
discharged to such sewers as are specifically designated as storm sewers,
or to a natural outlet approved by the City. . Industrial cooling water or
unpolluted process waters may be discharged, complying with the require-
ments of Section 308 of the Act and on approval of the City, to a storm
sewer or natural outlet;
C. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any
of the following described waters or wastes to any public sewers:
(1) Any gasoline, benzene, naphtha, fuel oil, or other
flammable or explosive liquid, solid or gas;
(2) Any waters or wastes containing toxic or poisonous
solids, liquids or gases in sufficient quantity, either singly or by
interaction with other wastes, to injure or interfere with any sewage
treatment process, constitute a hazard to humans or animals, create a
public nuisance or create any hazard in the receiving waters of the
sewage treatment plant, including but not limited to cyanides in excess
of two-tenths (0.2) mg!l as CN in the wastes as discharged to the public
sewer;
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(3) Any waters or wastes having a pH lower than 5.5 or
having any other corrosive property capable of causing damage or hazard
to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage works; and,
(4) Solid or viscous substances in quantities or of such
size capable of causing obstruction to the flow in sewers, or other inter-
ference with the proper operation of the sewage works such as, but not
limited to, ashes, cinders, sand, mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags,
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feathers, tar, plastics, wood, ungroUnd garbage, whole blood, palUlch manure,
hair and fleshings, entrails and paper dishes, cups, milk containers, etc.
either whole or grolUld by garbage grinders;
D. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged the
following described substances, materials, waters or wastes if it appears
likely in the opinion of the City that such wastes can ham either the
sewers, sewage treatment process or equipment, have an adverse effect on
the receivlng stream or can otherwise endanger life, limb, public property
or constitute a nuisance. IIi fonning its opinion as to the acceptability
of these wastes, the City will give consideration to such factors as the
quantities of subject wastes in relation to flows and velocities in the
sewers, materials of construction of the sewers, nature of the sewage treat-
ment process, capacity of the sewage. treatment plant, degree of treatability
of wastes in the sewage treatment plant and other pertinent factors. The
substances prohibited are:
(1) , Any liquid or vapor having a temperature higher than
one hlUldred fifty (150) ~F, (65~C);
(2) Any water or waste containing fats, wax, grease, or oils,
whether emulsified or not, in excess of one hlUldred (100) mg/l or contain-
ing substances which may solidify or become viscous at temperatures between
thirty-two (32) and one hlUldred fifty (150) ~F, (0 and 65~C);
(3) Any garbage that has not been properly shredded. The
installation and operation of any garbage grinder equipped with a motor of
three-fourths (3/4) horsepower or greater shall be subject to the review
and approval of the City;
(4) Any waters or wastes containing strong acid iron pick-
ling wastes or concentrated plating solutions whether neutralized or not;
(5) Any waters or wastes containing iron, chromium, copper,
zinc and similar objectionable or toxic substances; or wastes exerting any
excessive chlorine requirement to such degree that any such material re-
ceived in the composite sewage at the sewage treatment works exceeds the
limits established by the City for such materials;
(6) Any waters or wastes containing phenols or other taste
or odor-producing substances" in such concentrations exceeding limits which
may be established by the City as necessary, after treatment of the composite
sewage, to meet the requirements of the State, Federal or other public agencies
of jurisdiction for such discharge to the receiving waters;
(7) Any radioactive wastes or isotopes of such half-life or
concentration as may exceed limits established by the City in compliance with
applicable State or Federal regulations;
(8) Any waters or wastes having a pH in excess of 9.5;
(9) Materials which exert or cause:
(a) Unusual concentrations of inert suspended solids
(such as, but not limited to, Fullers earth, lime slurries, and lime resi-
dues) or of dissolved solids (such as, but not limited to, sodium chloride
and sodium sulfate);
(b) Excessive discoloration (such as, but not limited
to, dye wastes and vegetable tanning solutions);
(c) Unusual BOD, chemical oxygen demand or chlorine
requirements in such quantities as to constitute a significant load on the
sewage treatment works; and,
(d) Unusual volume of flow or concentration of wastes
constituting "slugs" as defined herein; and,
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(10) Waters or wastes containing substances which are not
amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment processes employed,
or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the sewage treatment
plant effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having juris-
diction over discharge to the receiving waters;
E. If any waters or wastes are discharged, or are proposed to
be discharged to the public sewers, which waters contain the substances or
posses the characteristics enumerated in Section 7-528D of this Ordinance, and
which in the judgment of the City, may have a deleterious effect upon the
sewage works, processes, equipment or receiving waters, or which otherwise
create a hazard to life or constitute a public nuisance, the City may:
(1) Reject the wastes;
(2) Require pretreatment to an acceptable condition for
discharge to the public sewers;
charge; and/or
(3) Require control over the quantities and rates of dis-
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(4) Require payment to cover the added cost of handling and
treating the wastes not covered by existing taxes or sewer charges under the
provisions of Section 7-541 of this Ordinance.
If the City permits the pretreatment or equalization of
waste flows, the design and installation of the plants and equipment shall
be subject to the review and approval of the City and subject to the require-
ments of all applicable codes, ordinances and laws;
F. Grease, oil and sand interceptors shall be provided when,
in the opinion of the City, they are necessary for the proper handling of
liquid wastes containing grease in excessive amounts or any flammable
wastes, sand or other harmful ingredients; except that such interceptors
shall not be required for private living quarters or dwelling units. All
interceptors shall be of a type and capacity approved by the City and
shall be located as to be readily and easily accessible for cleaning and
inspection. These interceptors shall be adequately maintained and are
subject to periodic inspection by the City;
G. Where preliminary treatment or flow-equalizing facilities
are provided for any waters or wastes, they shall be maintained continuously
in satisfactory and effective operation by the owner at his expense;
H. When required by the City, the owner of any property ser-
viced by a building sewer carrying industrial wastes shall install a suit-
able control manhole together with such necessary meters and other appur-
tenances in the building sewer to facilitate observation, sampling and
measurement of the wastes. Such manhole, when required, shall be accessibly
and safely located, and shall be constructed in accordance with plans approved
by the City. The manhole shall be installed by the owner at his expense,
and shall be maintained by him so as to be safe and accessible at all times;
I. All measurements, tests and analyses of the characteristics I
of waters and wastes to which reference is made in this Ordinance shall be
determined in accordance with the latest edition of I'Standard Methods "for
the Examination of Water and Wastewater," published by the American Public
Health Association, and shall be determined at the control manhole provided
or upon suitable samples taken at said control manhole. In the event that
no special manhole has been required, the control manhole shall be considered
to be the nearest downstream manhole in the public sewer to the point at
which the building sewer is connected. Sampling shall be carried out by
customarily accepted methods to reflect the effect of constituents upon the
sewage works and to determine the existence of hazards to life, limb and
property;
J. No statement contained in this Ordinance shall be construed
as preventing any special agreement or arrangement between the City and any
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industrial concern whereby an indus trail waste of unusual strength or
character may be accepted by the City for treatment, subject to payment
therefore, by the industrial concern; and,
K. Any property owner or sewer user violating the provisions
of this Section shall upon notice by the City immediately install such
preliminary treatment through separators, traps and/or chemical, physical or
biochemical processes as will make and assure that the sewage contributed
from such property or premises will meet the requirements of this Ordinance.
7-530. INJURY TO SEWERAGE SYSTEM UNLAWFUL. No unauthorized person
shall maliciously, willfully or negligently break, damage,
des troy, uncover, 'deface or tamper with any structure, appurtenance or
equipment which isa part of the sewerage works.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit any garbage, rubbish, dead
animals or any substance having a tendency to obstruct the flow of the
sewer in any manhole, clean out or sewer opening.
7,- 531. PERMISSION TO DISCHARGE OBJECTIONABLE WASTE OR WATER. The
admission into the public sewers of any water or wastes having:
(a) biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) greater than 300 mg/l; (b) chemical
oxygen demand (COD) greater than 900 mg/l;or (c) suspended solids in
excess of 300 mg/l, shall be subject to the review and approval of' the
City. Where necessary, in the opinion of the City, the owner shall pro-
vide, at his expense, such preliminary treatment as may be necessary to
reduce the BOD to 300 mg/l, the COD to 900 mg/l and the suspended solids
to 300 mg/l. Plans, specifications and any other pertinent information
relating to proposed preliminary treatment facilities shall be submitted
for the approval of the City and of the Idaho Department of Health and
Welfare, and no construction of such facilities shall be commenced until
said approvals are obtained in writing.
7-532. BUILDING SEWERS AND SERVICE CONNECTIONS. All materials and
workmanship in the installation of building sewers and service
connections shall conform to the following regulations:
A. No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any connections
with or opening into, use, alter or disturb any public sewer or appurtenance
thereof without first obtaining a written pennit from the City. The pennit
is not to be issued until all sewer connection charges and fees have been
paid in full; .
B. There shall be two classes of building sewer pennits: (1) A
General Pennit for residential and commercial sewer service, and (2) Indus-
trial User Permits for sewer service to establishments producing industrial
wastes;
(1) General Pennits shall be applied for by the owner or his
agent on a form provided by the City Clerk. The permit application shall
be supplemented by any plans, specifications or other infonnation con-
sideredpertinent in ,the judgment of the City at the time the application
is filed. Also, the owner,or his agent shall pay to the City, at the time
the application is filed, a hookup fee, which shall be established by reso-
lution of the City Council; and,
(2) Industrial User Pennits shall be applied for by the owner
or his agent by letter to the City Council accompanied by an executed copy
of the Industrial User Agreement together with any plans, specifications
or other infonnation considered pertinent in the judgment of the City.
Industrial User Permits shall be approved by the City Council based on
recommendation by the Engineer for the City. Approval shall be contingent
upon the availability of excess capacity in the Sewage Treatment Plant,
the provisions of this ordinance and any other considerations the City
Council deems appropriate. The amount of the pennit, inspection fee and
hookup fee for an industrial wastes sewer service will vary with each permit
and shall be established by the City at the time of application;
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C. All costs and expense incident to the installation and
connection of the building sewer and service connection shall be borne by
the owner. The owner shall indemnify and hold hannless the City from any
loss or damage that may directly or indirectly be occasioned by the instal-
lation of the building sewer and the marking of the service connection for
same to the public sewer;
D. A separate and independent building sewer and service con-
nection shall be provided for every building; except where one building stands
at the rear of another on an interior lot and no separate sewer is available
or can be constructed to the rear building through an adjoining alley, court,
yard or driveway, the building sewer from the front building may be extended
to the rear building and the whole considered as one building sewer;
E. Old building sewers may be used in connection with new
buildings only when they are found, on examination and being tested as re-
quired by the City, to meet all requirements of this Ordinance;
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F. The materials of construction of the building sewer and
service connections, and the methods to be used in excavating, placing of
the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling the trench, shall all confonn
to the requirements of the building and plumbing codes as have been or may
be adopted by the City;
G. The building sewer from the building drain to the public
sewer and the service connection thereto shall not be smaller than four (4)
inch diameter sewer pipe. The minimum grade or slope of the building sewer
shall be as follows:
(1) Four (4) inch diameter sewer pipe shall be laid on a
grade of not less than one-quarter (1/4) inch per foot;
(2) Six (6) inch diameter sewer pipe shall be laid on a
grade of not less than one-eighth (1/8) inch per foot; and,
(3) Eight (8) inch diameter sewer pipe shall be laid on
a grade of not less than four (4) feet per one thousand (1,000) feet.
The aligrunent of the building sewer from the outlet of the
building drain to the public sewer connection shall be straight, with no
bends, warps or sags permitted except with the permission of the City. The
trench bottom shall be cut to proper grade so that when the pipe is laid the
body or barrel of the pipe shall be on solid material. Bell holes are to be
excavated in the trench bottom at all pipe joints;
H. No person shall make connection of roof downspouts, exterior
foundation drains, areaway drains or other sources of surface runoff or
groundwater to a building sewer or building drain which in turn is connected
directly or indirectly to a public sanitary sewer;
I. The service connection to the public sewer shall conform to
the requirements of the building and plumbing codes as adopted by the City.
In addition, the materials and workmanship of the- service connection shall
meet the following requirements:
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(1) A precast service connection fitting shall be installed as
an increment of the sewer pipe line or installed as an external fabrication to
the sewer pipe line said fabrication to be installed within the center one~third
of an individual laying length of the public sewer pipe, as a precaution in pre-
venting the breaking of the bell or the spigot end of the sewer pipe. The ser-
vice connection fitting shall be installed as a water-tight connection to the
public sewer, care being taken not to extend the building sewer line into the
public sewer line, therefore, creating a possible restriction. The invert of
the building sewer line at the service connection fitting shall be at an eleva-
tion above the invert of the public sewer at least equal to two-thirds of the
diameter of the public sewer. All foreign material, shall be removed from the
sewer pipe and there shall be a pennanent connection which is air-tight and
water-tight between the public sewer line and the building sewer line; and,
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(2) The building sewer service connection fitting to reinforced
sewer pipe lines shall be made as specified under Section 7-532.1.(1) hereof, except
that in cutting a hole in reinforced pipe forirlstallation of the service
connection tee, extreme care shall be exercised to avoid damage to the pipe.
The hole for the tee shall be carefully chipped first to expose the reinforc-
ingsteel aIld the steel cut by torch or saw. No chisel cutting of the rein-
forcing steel of aIlY character will be permitted;
In lieu of a staIldard service cOllIlection fitting, a riser ser-
vice connection may be made to sewer lines that are deep below groUIld sur-
face. The branch or riser shall be connected the same as a tee, except
that it shall be set vertically over the public sewer pipe, aIld extended
vertically upward such that the top of the riser is not to be less thaIl
five feet (5') below the surface. of the groUIld;
J. The applicaIlt for the building sewer penni t shall notify
the City when the building sewer is ready fbr inspection and connection to
the public sewer;
K. All excavations for building sewer installation shall be
adequately guarded with barricades and lights so as to protect the public
from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways-and other public property dis-
turbed in the course of the work shall be restored in a manner satisfactory
to the City; aIld,
L. The connection of the building sewer to the public sewer
shall be made by a plumber holding a valid City of Meridian phunbing license.
7-533. INDUSTRIAL USERS. All industrial users of the sewerage system
shall comply with any applicable requirements of Section 204(b),
307 aIld 308 of the Act. There shall be two classes of industrial users:
(1) major contributing industry; and, (2) minor contributing industry. They
are defined as follows:
A. . A major contributing industry is one that: (a) will contri-
bute greater than ten (10) percent of the desigIlhydraulic flow of the treat-
ment works; (b) will contribute greater than ten (10) percent of the design
pollutant loading of the treatment works; (c) has in its waste a toxic pol-
lutant in toxic amoUIlts as defined in standards issued UIlder Section 307(a)
of the Act; or, (d) has sigIlificant impact, either singly or in combination
with other contributing-industries, on the sewerage system or the quality of
its effluent;
B. A minor contributing industry shall be all industries not
included iri the major contributing industry classification as defined herein;
All major contributing industries wastes shall be monitored
by the City or Industry on a regular basis at intervals not less than monthly,
and more frequently as the characteristics of the specific industrial discharge
may dictate. Minor contributing industries shall be monitored by the City or
industry as the characteristics of the specific industrial discharge may dic-
tate as determined by the City.
All major contributing industries shall submit to the City on
the first day of the months of June and December, a statement in writing
regarding specific actions taken to achieve full compliance with the require-
ments of Section 307 of the Act.
Each contributing industry shall report any substantial (exceeding
ten percent, plus or minus) change in flow or characteristics of waste water
being discharged into the sewerage system. The report shall include quantity
and quality of effluent and duration and frequency of discharge.
7-534. POWERS AND AUTI-IORITY OF CITY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE. The
City through its 'authorized representative, bearing proper cre-
. dentials and identification, shall be pennitted to enter all properties for
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the purposes of inspection, observation, measurement, sampling and testing
in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance. The City shall have no
authority to inquire into any processes including metallurgical, chemical,
oil, refining, ceramic, paper or other industries beyond that point having
a direct bearing on the kind and source of discharge to the public sewers
or natural waterways.
While performing the necessary work on private properties referred to here-
inabove in Section 7-534, the authorized representative of the City shall observe
all safety rules applicable to the premises established by the sewer user
and the sewer user shall be held harmless for injury or death to any City
authorized representative and the City shall indemnify the seWer user against
loss or damage to its property by any authorized City representative and
against liability claims and demands for personal injury and property damage 1_._
asserted against the sewer user and growing out of the gauging and sampling
operation, except as such may be caused by negligence or failure of the
sewer user to maintain safe conditions as required in this Ordinance or as
reasonably required by a prudent man standard.
The City through its authorized representative, bearing proper credentials
and identification, shall be permitted to enter all private properties
through which the City holds a duly negotiated easement for the purposes
of, but not limited to, inspection, observation, measurement, sampling,
repair and maintenance of any portion of the sewerage works lying within
said easement. All entry and subsequent work, if any, on said easement
shall be done in full accordance with the terms of the duly negotiated
easement pertaining to the private property involved.
7-535. INSPECTION. No connection of any kind to a public sewer line
shall be made and no sewage permitted to flow through such
connection except pursuant to inspection of and approval issued by the City.
See Section 7-532, for sewer permits, inspection fees, inspection notices, etc.
7-536. REJECTIONS OR DISAPPROVALS. The City may reject any material
or workmanship for cause and, upon such order,. rejected material
shall be removed and replaced with approved material. Disapproved workman-
ship shall cause the removal and replacement of all materials involved,
including appurtenances, excavation, backfilling and other work items.
7-537. BACKFILLING. Backfilling of building sewers and service con-
nections within the limits of public rights of ways or ease-
ments shall conform to special specifications promulgated by the City, for
sewer installation, and shall be subject to inspection by and approval of
the City.
7-538. SEWER LINE EXTENSIONS. All proposed extensions of the municipal
sewerage system to serve undeveloped areas within the existing
corporate limits, newly annexed areas or areas outside the corporate limits
shall comply with the overall master plan for the City's municipal sewerage
system. Costs for all extensions which lie outside the boundary limits of the
property for which the extension is requested shall be the responsibility of
that property owner or his agent. Cost for sewer extensions within the pro-
perty for which the extension is requested shall also be the responsibility of 1- -
the owner or his agent. The City may, if it has uncommitted funds in its
sewer construction account, participate in a portion of the cost of any
oversized sewer lines. When it is necessary to install oversized lines as
part of an extension, the cost of all oversized lines will normally be the
responsibility of the owner or his agent.
Unless a special permit is granted by the City, all municipal sewerage
system extensions into newly developing areas shall be installed prior to
the construction of any new streets.
All design and construction of any extensions to the municipal sewerage
system shall comply with the official specifications for sewerage system
extensions as adopted by the City.
The plans for all extensions to the sewerage system shall be prepared and
signed by a registered professional engineer as per the licensing requirements
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of the Idaho Code. Three copies of the said plans shall be filed with the
City. Two copies of the plans shall be. filed with the Idaho Department of
Health and Welfare for their review and approval as required by the Idaho
Code.. In approving a plan for extension to the municipal sewerage system,
the ~Ity rese:ves the right t? stipulate other requirements such as a special
pemIt fee, rIghts of way limIts, sequence of construction, time limits for
having existing service disrupted, the filing of a perfomance bond and other
similar measures as may be required to protect the public.- No work" shall
commence on any such extension of the municipal sewerage system until the
extension project has been approved by the City.
After the construction of any municipal sewer system extensions, it shall
be the obligation of the owner, or his agent, to have.a registered profes-
sional engineer certify to the City and to the Idaho Department of Health
and Welfare that the said system extensions were installed in accordance
with the approved plans and specifications on file with the respective
agencies. Following certification by the registered professional engineer
and acceptance by the City, the entire ext.ension of the municipal sewerage
system, including the City sewer service lines, shall become the property
of the City and it shall be the City's responsibility to maintain and oper-
ate the system thereafter.
If it is necessary for .the City to pemit a sewer service connection and/or
sewer service line at any time after the extension has been originally
accepted by the City, the owner br his agent, shall be required to pay the
sewer .hookup fee as well as the standard pemit and inspection fees as may
be established by the City for such purposes. .
7-539. SEWER BOARD OF APPRAISERS. There is hereby created the Sewer
Board of Appraisers, consisting of three (3) members, to be the same per-
sons as the Mayor, the City Clerk and the Engineer for the City.
7 - 540. DillIES OF THE SEWER BOARD OF APPAAISAL. The Sewer Board of
Appraisers shall be delegated the duty of establishing all
rates, charges or fees made and established under authority of this
Ordinance, subject to the approval of the City Council. The Sewer Board of
Appraisers has the power to promulgate such rates, charges or fees or changes
in rates, or fees; and all such proposals shall be filed with the City Clerk;
thereupon the City Clerk shall have a concise statement of the proposed rates
published in a daily issue of a newspaper of general circulation in the City,
setting forth a date and a place for a public hearing before the said Sewer
Board of Appraisers, upon the said rates, which hearing shall be held not less
than ten (10) days after the publication of said notice. The Sewer Board of
Appraisers shall, upon the date and at the place. set forth in the said notice
hold a public hearing and shall have the power to ratify, confim, modify
or approve the said appraisement and assessment.
7-541. SEWER CHARGE APPAAISAL. Each parcel being subject to sewer con-
nection, charge, periodic user charge, industrial cost recovery charges or
other fees as provided for in Section 7-543 herein shall be appraised and
assessed by the Sewer Board of Appraisers for the purpose of establishing the
equivalent connection rating, the sewer connection charge, the inspection fee,
the industrial charges, the monthly service charge or other fees to be charged
or assessed to and against such property. In making such appraisement and
assessment, there shall be taken into consideration the area of land being
served and the amount of flow (Q), the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), the
Suspended Solids (55) and any other pertinent components of the wastes that
the user is contributing to the system so as to establish, as nearly as pos-
sible, the rate, charge or fee for each property on the same relative basis
as is imposed upon other like property within the City that has or will
receive the sewer service.
7 - 542. FINAL APPROVAL OF SCHEDULE OF CHARGES, RATES AND FEES. After
the said hearing, upon any charge, rate or fee provided by this
Ordinance, the Sewer Board of Appraisers shall submit a final schedule of
recommended charges, rates or fees, or a recommended change in present
charges, rates and fees to the City Council. The City Council thereupon
has the power to approve, confim, modify or amend the same and the deci-
sion of the City Council shall be final. Upon final approval of the City
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Council, the same shall then and there be in effect and a copy thereof shall
be filed In the office of the City Clerk.
7-543. BASIS FOR SEWER CHARGES. There is hereby established a system
of connector charges, permit and inspection fee, industrial cost
recovery charges, periodic service charges and other fees for the use of, and
for service rendered by the sewerage works of the City, and which charges,
rates and fees shall be as near as possible, uniform as to the different
classes of property served by said sewerage works. The rates, charges and
fees provided by this Ordinance are hereby levied and assessed against each
lot, parcel of land, building or property having any connection with the
sanitary sewerage works of the City or otherwise discharging sanitary sewage,
industrial wastewater or other liquids directly into the sanitary sewerage
works of said City.
It is specifically enacted that all property in the City to which a public
sewer is available and is required to connect to the sewer as required in
Section 7-528, but is not used by the owner or occupier of said parcel of
land, is still subject to user charges under the provisions of this Ordinance.
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7-544. SEWER USER CHARGES AND CONNECTION FEES. The monthly sewer user
rates for sanitary sewer service in the City of Meridian, Idaho,
as hereafter developed in accordance with Section 7-542 of this Ordinances
are based on gallons of water used as determined by the water meter readings.
Residential homeowner's sanitary sewer user charges will be based on the
actual water recorded for monthly water meter readings during the period of
the year from the 15th day of October to the following 15th day of ~~rch. For
the following six month period, the average monthly reading for the period
from October 15th to the fOllowing 15th day of March shall be the basis for the
monthly sewer user charge. All other users such as commercial and industrial
shall be based on their monthly water consumption. The user charges will be
reviewed annually by the 20th day of August. The user charge system is based
on the following:
The minimum sewer user charge shail be Four Dollars and Forty Cents ($4.40)
per month, based on a use of four thousand (4,000) gallons.
The charge, for use in excess of four thousand (4,000) gallons per month,
shall be the minimum amount of Four Dollars and Forty Cents ($4.40) plus
an additional charge of One Dollar and Ten Cents ($1.10) per one thousand
(1,000) gallons or portion thereof above the four thousand (4,000) gallon
minimum.
The sewer connection fees and charges are based on the following schedu1e~ All
other users will be required special appraisal and will be computed on an indi-
vidual basis.
Classification
No. of Equiv.
Connections
Apartment (see Multiple Living Unit)
Bank ------------------------------------------ 2.00
Bar ---------------~--------------------------- 2.00
Barber Shop, per chair ------------------------ 0.50
(minimum 1.00)
Beauty Salon, per operator station------------- 0.50
(minimum 1. 00)
Bowling Alley, per lane ----------------------- 0.20
(minimum 1. 00)
Cafe, per customer seating capacity ----------- 0.10
(minimum to be 2.00 equivalent connections)
Car Dealer ------------~----------------------- 2.00
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Classification
No. of Equiv.
Connections
Car Wash (to be computed on an individual
basis) ------------------------------------- XXXX
Church ______---------------------------------- 2.00
Club, Private --------------------------------- 2.00
Condominium (see Multiple Living Unit)
Dentist, per practitioner --------------------- 1.00
Department Store - - -- - - - - -- -,- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- n -- 2. 00
Doctor, per practitioner ---------------------- 1.00
Drug Store ------------------------------------ 2.00
Dry Cleaners ---------------------------------- 2.00
Duplex (see Multiple Living Unit)
Fourplex (see Multiple Living Unit)
Garage ________________________________________ 2.00
Grocery Store (see Retail Food Store)
Hospital, per bed ----------------------------- 0.15
Industry (see Major or Minor Contributing
Industry) ,
Laundries:
Self-service up to and including ten
washing machines --------------------------- 4.00
Each washing machine in excess of ten------ 0.25
Commercial (to be computed on an individual
basis) ------------------------------------- XXXX
Lodge or Private Club ------------------------- 2.00
Major Contributing Industry (As per
separate agreement)------------------------ XXXX
Minor Contributing Industry (As per
separate agreement)------------------------ XXXX
Mobile Home Court or Park
First space -------------------------------- 1.00
Each additional space, long term tenant
type,;' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1.00
Each additional space, short term tenant
type _______________________________________ 1.00
Mobile Home or Trailer House on own
premises -----------~----------------------- 1.00
Motel, Hotel, Rooming House, etc.
Without cooking facilities -
First unit ------------------------------ 1.00
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:N9.- _ of Equiv.
;t0i1riections
. '-, ..
- ""'.- E~~5:-\~~~~~Io~~Lwi~i:-~ c:O:'_~~~-~~i:~;: -~ ~---- -~:- 0 . 25
Motel,};f9t.el,-_~()orning Hguse, -etc. (cont.-t_.-_-
Witn'cbokingfaciiiiies--- -- -c---'__,__'_,,_
First unit --------------------__________
Each additional unit ---------___~_______
Multiple Living Unit
Studio or one bedroom -------------_________
Two bedrooms -----------------______________
Three or more bedrooms -----------__________
1. 00
0.50
1. 00
1. 00
1. 00
1. 00 I
2.00
0.10
Office Building for each 2,500 square feet
of gross floor space or fraction thereof
Photo Development Lab - - -- - --- - -- -- - __ _ __ _ __ ___
Restaurant, per customer seating capacity -----
(minimum to be 2.00 equivalent connections)
Retail Food Store for each 1,500 square
feet of gross floor space or fraction
thereof -------------------~---------------- 1.00
Retail Store for each 3,000 square feet
of gross floor space or fraction thereof --- 1.00
Service Station
Gas and restroom service only -------------- 2.00
Full service --------------------.----------- 4.00
Wi th Car Wash (to be computed on an
individual basis) ----------------------- xxxx
Schools per each 50 students in average
daily attendance or fraction thereof ------- 1.00
Single Family Residence -----------~----------- 1.00
Swimming Pool
Public (to be computed on an individual
basis) ---------------------------------- xxxx
Private, for each 500 square feet of pool
water surface area or fraction thereof -- 0.25
Tavern ---------------------------------------- 2.00
Theatre --------------------------------------- 2.00
Townhouse ------------------------------------- 1.00
Trailer Court or Park
First unit --------------------------------- 1.00
Each additional space, long term tenant
type ------------------------------------ 0.75
Trailer Court or Park (cant.)
Each additional space, short term tenant
type ------------------------------------ 0.50
Triplex (see Multiple Living Unit)
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Classification
No. of Equiv.
Connection
Railroad Depot ---~~---------------~------~---- 2.00
Variety Store for each 3,000 square feet of
gross floor space or fraction thereof ------ 1.00
7-545. SEWER, CONNECTION, PERMIT AND INSPECTION. To obtain municipal
sewer service, the owner or his agent shall make application
on a special form furnished by the City. The permit appliCation shall be
supplemented by any plans, specifications or other information considered
pertinent in the judgement of the City. A permit and inspection fee shall
be paid to the City at the time, the application is filed. Also, the owner
or his agent shall pay to the City, at the time the application is filed, a
connection charge in the amount as provided for in Section 7~544. The amount
of the permit and inspection fee shall be determined by the sewer Board of
Appraisers as herein provided.
The materials of construction of the sewer service line and the methods to
be used in excavating, placing of the pipe, jointing, testing and backfilling
of the trench and surface replacement shall all conform to the requirements
of specifications and codes as have been or may be adopted by the City.
A separate and independent City sewer service connection shall be provided
for each building.
The applicant for the City sewer service connection shall notify the City
when the connection of the sewer service connection and line to the public
sewer main is ready for inspection.
7-546. SEWER CONNECTION CHARGE. The owner, or his agent, of all pro~
perties connecting to the public sewer of the City under the
terms of this Ordinance shall pay a sewer connection charge of Four Hundred
Dollars ($400.00) for each equivalent connection or fraction thereof as may
be assigned-to the property by the City.
For properties that have an existing publiC sewer adjacent to their property
without direct cost to the present owner, or former owners of the property,
there shall be an additional connection charge of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00)
for each equivalent connection or fraction thereof as may be assigned to the
property by the City.
7~547. INDUSTRIAL USER CHARGES. All industrial user charges shall be
established 'by separate agreement between each separate contri-
buting industry and the City Council. All charges so established shall be in
proportion to the benefits derived by the user from the sewerage system and
shall be in accordance with pertinent federal regulations as are defined herein
as the Act. The charges so established shall generate sufficient revenue to
pay the industrial user portion of the bonded indebtness, operating and main-
tenance of the sewerage system, reserve fund as required to pay for future
capital improvements to the Sewage Treatment Plant, and Industrial Cost
Recovery payments as o~tlined in Section 7-548, all as required by the Act. The
charges shall be based on the amount of Flow (Q), the Biochemical Oxygen Demand
(BOD), the Suspended Solids (SS) and any other pertinent components of the
wastes that the industrial user is contributing to the sewerage system.
All contributing industrial user charges shall be reviewed annually ,and revised
as necessary to insure that each contributing industrial user pays its allocable
share. If the discharge of a contributing industrial user changes significantly,
greater than 10% plus or minus, (by strength, volume, delivery flow rate or other
pertinent component characteristics) such industrial user's charge shall be
adjusted accordingly to assure that the user continues to pay its allocable share.
7 _ 548. INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY. _ All contributing industrial users of the
sewerage system shall make Industrial Cost Recovery payments for
that portion of the cost of construction of the sewerage system which is allocable
to the treatment of their industrial wastes in accordance with Section 204(b)
(l)(B) of the Act.
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Pertinent components of the said Section are that:
A. Industrial Cost Recovery payments shall be in proportion to the
amount of Flow (Q), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Suspended Solids (SS) and
any other characteristics of wastes, which contribute to the cost of construc-
tion, the industrial user is contributing to the sewerage system;
B. Contributing industrial users discharging pretreated process
wastes into the sewerage system shall pay Industrial Cost Recovery based on the
characteristics of the waste effluent from the pretreatment facilities;
C. The City may permit contributing industrial users to reserve
extra or additional capacity in the sewerage system for future use by the
industry. Such capacity shall be reserved through formal, written agreement I__
and shall be subject to pertinent Industrial Cost Recovery regulations. The
industrial user shall be required to pay the full Industrial Cost Recovery
allocable to the capacity reserved. In the eVent that the City has unused
capacity in its sewerage system available for use and the said industrial
user is permitted by the City to exceed its agreed upon reserved capacity,
the industry shall be required to pay Industrial Cost Recovery calculated
on the full reserved capacity plus the additional Industrial Cost Recovery
for the use above the limits of the original agreed upon reserve capacity
or any element thereof;
D. All contributing industrial users shall be required to pay
any additional Industrial Cost Recovery charges associated with the cost
of future upgrading the treatment works as may be required of the City to
comply with waste discharge requirements;
E. Industrial Cost Recovery for expansion of the treatment
works shall be required from those industries which have exceeded their
reserved capacity and have been a contributing factor to the need for
expansion. Industrial Cost Recovery payments will be required for that
portion of the expanded capacity which is allocable to the industrial users
discharge;
F. Payments for Industrial Cost Recovery shall begin within a
month of the date of initiation of service by the industry of the treatment
facility as was constructed with grant assistance funds and shall continue
for a base period of thirty years. Contributing industrial users shall pay
their share of Industrial Cost Recovery, at no interest, in two hundred and
forty (240) equal monthly payments except that any increase as a result of
using extra capacity beyond the original agreed upon amount will be in addi-
tion thereto:
G. A contributing industry which connects to the treatment works
at some time after such treatment works have been put into initial service
shall begin Industrial Cost Recovery payments on the date use is initiated
and shall continue for the unexpired portion of the initial base period of
twenty years for Industrial Cost Recovery or until the new industry ceases
the use of the facility whichever occurs first. The total Industrial Cost
Recovery payment from a "new" contributing industry shall be the Federal
cost of the capacity used multiplied by the ratio of its period of use to
the Industrial Cost Recovery base period of. twenty years.
H. The amount of payment required from an industry for Indus-
trial Cost Recovery is to be determined by the folloWing procedure:
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(1) The costs of the treatment facility shall be allocated
in proportion to the benefit of the proposed facility to each wastewater
characteristic as follows:
Q "" 54% of Grant Amount
BOD "" 24% of Grant Amount
SS = 22% of Grant Amount
The cost of any future expansion, upgrading, or recon-
struction of the waste treatment facility shall be allocated in proportion
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to the benefit of the said improvement to any wastewater characteristic so
benefited at that time;
(2) The total cost per unit of each characteristic shall be
calculated as follows:
Q Unit Cost = (Grant Amount) (Percent of Grant Amount Allocated to Q)
(Total Design Flow of Facility in Gallons per Day)
BOD Unit Cost = (Grant Amount) (Percent of Grant Amount Allocated to BOD)
(Total Design BOD Capability of Facility in Pounds per Day)
SS Unit Cost = (Grant Amount) (Percent of Grant Amount Allocated to SS)
(Total Design 5S Capability of Facility in Pounds Per Day)
(3) The cost to an industry for Industrial Cost Recovery
(ICR) is calculated as follows:
Total ICR Cost = (Industry's Final Reserved Amount of Q)(Q Unit Cost)
+(Industry's Final Reserved Amount of BOD) (BOD Unit Cost)
+(Industry's Final Reserved Amount of SS)(SS Unit Cost)
Arumal ICR Cost Total ICRCost
20
Monthly ICR Cost = Total ICR Cost
240
For small contributing industrial concerns where it is
impractical to develop a monitoring program to measure wasteload discharges,
Industrial Cost Recovery payments may be made on the basis of estimated flows
alone, provided that the industry does not discharge an excessive strength
waste that may disrupt the treatment process as determined by the City. The
Industrial Cost Recovery payments will be calculated on a similar basis as
described herein, except that 100% of the grant amount will be allocated to
flow;
I. All Industrial Cost Recovery payments collected from industry
and paid to the City shall be used in accordance with the EPA grant agreement
as follows: Fifty percent (50%) shall be returned to the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency (EPA); forty percent (40%) together with all interest earned thereon
shall be used solely for the cost of any future expansion, upgrading or recon-
struction on the sewerage system eligible for EPA assistance; and ten percent
(10%) shall be used as the City sees fit in the maintenance, operation and/or
construction of sewerage facilities to serve any or all areas of the City; and,
J. Actions for nonpayment will be in accordance with Section 7-549
and Section 7-550 as are hereinafter provided.
7 - 549. SPECIAL SEWER USER CHARGE FOR OUTSIDE THE CORPORATE LIMITS. The
City may permit the use of the sewerage works by individual pro-
perties that are partially or entirely outside the Corporate Limits of the
City. Each request for such service must be approved by the City Council and
all regulations of this Ordinance must be complied with by such special sewer
user. The sewer user will be considered a special user as long as the property
being served remains outside the Corporate Limits of the City. In addition
to all other charges and fees as are required to be paid by any sewer user,
including industrial users, the special sewer user may be charged a supplemen-
tal monthly' user charge that will be to reimburse the City for any other costs
to the City that are attributable to administering, operating and/or maintaining
the said special sewer user service.
7-550. MONTHLY USER CHARGES: WHEN DUE AND PAYABLE. All monthly sewer
charges shall be due and payable to the City Clerk between the
first and tenth day of each month for the billing from the previous cycle.
For new construction, the monthly service connection has been inspected and
approved or when the building being served is substantially completed, which-
ever is the latest date. Upon failure to pay the same, as prescribed, each
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user shail pay, in addition to the amount due, a fine of one dollar ($1.00) or
ten percent (10%) of charges due, whichever is greater.
7-551. DELINQUENCY NOTICE. If a sewer user has not paid his monthly
charges by the tenth of the month, it shall be deemed delinquent.
The City shall follow the procedure set forth in 5-133 of the Ordinances of the
City of Meridian for termination of sewer services; provided, if the charges are
not paid within the ten days after the delinquency notice, an additional penalty
of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) or fifteen percent (15%) of charges due,
whichever is greater, will be added to the account. All delinquent charges or
fees, as provided by this Ordinance, not paid after the final determination of
the sewer users account shall be imposed as a lien against and upon the property
or premises against which such charge or fee is levied or assessed, and the City
Clerk shall, at the time of certifying the City taxes, certify such delinquencies
together with all penalties to the Tax Collector of Ada County, Idaho, and when
so certified the same shall be a lien upon the property and will be collectible
as other taxes.
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All monies collected by the City Clerk under the provisions of this Section shall
be paid over to the City Treasurer in the same manner as is required for the pay-
ment of other City monies.
7-552. SEWERAGE SYSTEM FUND. All fees and charges received and collected
under authority of this Ordinance shall be deposited and credited
to a special fund to be designated as the Sewerage System Fund. The accounts
of said Fund shall show all receipts and expenditures for the maintenance,
operation, upkeep and repair of the sewerage works and any payments into sink-
ing funds as may be established for the purpose of: (1) paying principal of
and interest on the general obligation sewer bonds of the City which shall from
time to time be outstanding; (2) Industrial Cost Recovery funds for payment to
EPA; (3) sewerage capital improvement fund for Industrial Cost Recovery payments
that are to be used exclusive for future expansion, upgrading or reconstruction
on the sewage system eligible for EPA assistance; and (4) other special funds as
may be established by the City Council.
As provided by law, when budgeted and appropriated, the funds and credits to
the account of the Sewerage System Fund shall be available for the payment of the
requirements for the maintenance, operation, repairs and upkeep of the sewerage
works of the City and, to the extent legally available, for payment into a sinking
fund established for the payment of the principal of and interest of the general
obligation sewer bonds of the City which shall from time to time be outstanding.
7 - 553. UNAVAILABILITY OF PUBLIC SHVER. Where a public sanitary sewer is
not available under the provisions of this Ordinance, the building
sewer shall be connected to a private sewer disposal system complying with the
provisions of this Ordinance and in accordance with the following special pro-
visions:
A. Before commencement of construction of a private sewage
disposal system the owner shall first obtain a written permit from the
Ci ty . The application for said permit shall be made on a form furnished
by the City, which the applicant shall supplement by plans, specifications
and other information as may be deemed necessary by the City. A permit and
inspection fee of $20.00 shall be paid to the City at the time the applica-
tion is filed;
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B. A permit for private sewage disposal system shall not be
effective until the installation is completed to the satisfaction of the
City. The City shall be allowed to inspect the work at any stage of con-
struction and, in any event, the applicant for the permit shall notify the
City when the work is ready for final inspection and before any underground
works are covered. The inspection shall be made by the City within 72 hours
after receipt of notice from applicant, Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays being
excluded in calculating the elapsed time;
Section 3. Upon the passage and approval of this Ordinance, it shall be
immediately published in the Valley News, a newspaper of general circulation
in the City of Meridian and shall take effect on the 29 day of
May , 1979.
Passed by the City Council and approved by the Mayor of the City of
-~_ Meridian.
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C. The type, capacities, location and layout of a private
sewage disposal system shall comply with all of the rules and regulations
and recommendations of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and/or the
Central District Health Department. No septic tank or cess pool shall be
permitted to discharge to any natural outlet;
D. At such time as a public sewer becomes available to property
served by a private sewage disposal system, a direct connection shall be
made to the public sewer in compliance with this Ordinance and any septic
tank, cess pool or similar private sewage disposal facilities shall be
abandoned and filled with suitable material;
E. The owners shall operate and maintain the private sewage
disposal facility in a sanitary manner at all time and at no expense to
the City;
F. Septic tank pumpings shall not be deposited in any manhole,
cleanout or sewer opening. Thepumpings may be dumped at the Sewage Treat-
ment Plant at a point designated by the City. The number of gallons dumped
and the nature of the wastes shall be provided to the plant operator prior
to dumping. A fee for the septic tank dumping shall be determined by the
Board of. Appraisers; and,
G. No statement contained in this Section shall be construed to
interfere with any additional requirements that may be imposed by the Depart-
ment of Health and Welfare of the State of Idaho.
7-554. . PENALTIES. Any person found to be violating any provision of
this Ordinance shall be served by the City with written notice
stating the nature of the violation and providing a reasonable time limit,
but in any event, not to exceed ninety (90) days, for the satisfactory correc-
tion thereof. The offender shall, within the period of time stated in such
notice, permanently cease all violations.
Any person who shall continue any violation, beyond the time limit provided for
hereinabove in this Section, shall be guilty of a misdemanor and, on conviction
thereof, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000.00 or imprisonment not
exceeding thirty (30) days or both such fine and imprisonment for each.viola-
tion. Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall~be d~e~ed a
separate offense. - _ . -
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Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance slk~ll became
liable to the City for any expense, loss or damage occasioned the_City~by-
reason of such violation.
7-555.
REPEALER CLAUSE. All ordinances or resolutions or parts-thereof
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and rescinded.'
-- 7 - 556. SAVINGS CLAUSE. If any section, paragraph, sentence or pro-
circumstance shall ever be held invalid or unenforceable, such
holding shall not affect the remainder hereof, which shall continue in full
force and effect and applicable to all circumstances to which it may validly
apply.
ATTEST:
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ity Clerk of the C.ty
Ada County, Idaho
148
ORDINANCE NO. 339
STATE OF IDAHO )
) ss
County of Ada )
I, LAWANA NIEMANN, City Clerk of the City of Meridian, Ada County, Idaho,
do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true, full and correct
copy of an Ordinance entitled "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7, CHAPTER 5, OF
THE REVISED AND COMPILED ORDINANCES OF THE CIlY OF MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTI,
IDAHO, BY REPEALING CERTAIN SECTIONS THEREOF AND BY ADDING THERETO A COMPRE-
HENSIVE PROVISION REGULATING AND AIMINISTERING THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM OF THE
CIlY OF MERIDIAN," passed as Ordinance No. 339 by the City Council and Mayor
of the. Ci ty of Meridian, on the 29 day of May , 1979, as the
same appears in my office.
Dated this
29
May , 1979.
day of
STATE OF IDAHO )
) ss
County of Ada )
On this 29 day of May , 1979, before me, the undersigned,
a Notary Public in and for said State, personally appeared LAWANA NIEMANN,
known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instru-
ment, and acknowledged to me that she executed the same.
IN.WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official
seal, the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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