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An Ordinance fixing the schedule of sewer
charges and surcharges to be collected by
the Town cf Carmel0 ~ndiana, from the owners
of property served by the sewage works of
said Town0 and other matters connected there-
with
WHEREAS, the Towr] ~f Carmel has heretofore constructed and has in ~peran~on
a sewage works for the purpose of collecting sewage and conveying same away from the
premises where produced; and
W~tEREAS, the Town has under construction additions and expansions of ~t$
wastewater treatment plant and intercepter sewers under the provision of Chapter
Article 2~ Title 19 of the Indiana Code of 1971; and
~.~iEREAS, said statute requires that the sewer charges and surcharges for
uno use of and the service rendered by ~uch sewace works be fixed by ordinance~
finally adopted after due notice and public hearing~ and authorizes the collection of
said sewer charges and surcharges~ now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF T~ TO, at{ OF CARMEL~ IND%ANA:
Section to Definitions
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise~ the meanings of the following
terms a.s used in this ordinance or as used in the rules and regulations adopted by
the Board of Trustees to implement the provisions of this ordinance shall be as follows:
10t. "Biochemical Oxygen Demand" %or BOD) of sewage~ sewage effluent~ polluted waters
cz industrial wastes shall mean the cuantltv of dissolved oxygen in
per liter required during stabilization of the decomposable organic ma=ncr by
aerobic biochemical action under standard laboratory procedures fo= five days
a'a 20° Centigrade. The laboratory determinations shall be made in accordance
with procedures set forth in Standard Methods" {see ll!~.
102o ":Chemical Oxygen Demand" or (COD~ of sewage~ sewage effluent, polluted waters
or industrial wastes zs a measure of the oxygen equivalent of that portzon of
cne organic matter in s sample that is susceptible ~o oxidation by s strong
chemical oxidant. T~e kaboratory determination shall be made ~n accordance
~×%n procedures set fnrt~ in "Standard ~ethods".
103. 'Town" shall mean Town of Carmel Indi~a~ or any duly authorized officials
acting' in its behalf°
This Instrume~
104.
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'Industrial Wastes" shall mean any solid~ liquid or gaseous substance or form of
energy discharged permitted to flow or escaping from an industrials manufacturing,
commercial or business process or from the developments recovery or processing
of any natural resource carried on by any person as defined in 105~ and shall
further mean any waste from an industrial user as defined in 1120
105o 'Person shall mean any and all persons~ natural or artificial~ including any
individual, firm, company~ municipal or private corporation, association~
society~ institutions enterprises governmental agency or other entity~
105. ·Sanitary Sewaqe" shall mean sewage discharged from the sanitaz%z conveniences of
dwellings (including apartment houses and hotels), office buildin~s~ factories
or institutions and free from storm water, surface water and industrial wastes.
'Sewage' shall mean the water-carried wastes fro~ residences~ business buildings~
institutions and industrial establishments, sinoular or in any combination, to-
gether with such'~ ground, surface and storm waters as may be present~
108o "Wastewater Treatment Plant" shall mean the arrangement of devices, structures
and equipment used for treating and disposino of sewage and sludge°
109.
"Sewage Works'~ shall mean all facilities for collecting~ transporting~ pumping~
treating and disposing of sewage and sludge~ n~mely the sewerage system and
wastewater treatment plant~
"Sewerage System' shall mean the network of sewers and appurtenances used for
collecting, transporting and pumping sewage to the wastewater treatment plant°
ill.
"Standard Methods' shall mean the examination and analytical procedures set forth
in the most recent edition of ':St&ndard Methods for the ~xamination of 9~ter
and Wastewater", published jointly by the American Public Health Association~ the
American Water Works Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation°
112.
"User Classes" - Each recipient of municipal wastewater treatment services shall
be either in the industrial class or the non-industrial class (including domestic~
commercial, institutional and governmental). The Industrial Class shall include
any non-governmental user as determined by the Board of Trustees~ identified in
the Standard Industrial Classification Manua~ of 1972~ Office of Management and
Budget, as amended and supplemented~ under the following d~visi~ns: Division A -
Agricultu~e~ Forestry and Fishing; Division B - Mining; Division D - Manufacturing~
Division E - Transportation~ Communications, Electric, ~as and Sanitary Services;
and Division I - Services° The Non-Industrial Class shall include all domestic
and governmental users and those industrial, co~ercial and institutional users
whose wastes are segregated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary conveniences
where regular domestic wastes are those wastes qenerate~ by normal domestic
activity as determined by the Board of Trustees°
113,
"Operation and Maintenance Expenses' shall mean all annual expenses related
directly to operating and maintaining the sewage works as identified in '~Uniform
System of Accounts for Wastewater Utilities': or as prescribed by the State Board
of Accounts under general headings, Plant Operation and Maintenance, Sewer Opera-
tion and Maintenance, Customer Accounts~ Administrative and General~ Insurance
and Taxes.
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':Equipment~' shall mean all movabte~ non-fixed items necessary to the was%ew~ter~
treatment process° ,
115.
"Real Property" shall mean all n~Lmovable fixed in place items such as structures
and buildings housing equipment or otherwise used in the wastewater treatment
plant process.
116.
"Service Life" shall mean the period of time during which a component of a waste-
water treatment works will be capable of performing a function; and the maximum
life components constructed under EPA Project No. C180445 as hereby set as
follows:
Real Property - 50 years commencing from June 1~ 1976
Process Equipment - 30 years commencing from June 1, 1976
Auxiliary Equipment - 15 years commencing from June 1~ 1976
117.
"Replacement" shall mean expenditures for obtaining and installing equipments
accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of
the treatment works to maintain the capacity and performance for which such
works were designed and constructed.
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"Sewer Charges" shall be comprised of the user charge and a separate amount for
debt service~and User Charges shall mean a system of charges levied on users of
a treatment works for the cost of operation and maintenance (including replace-
ment) of such works. In addition each user shall pay an amount sufficient to
pay principal and interest (debt service) on any revenue bonds~ payable from
the revenues of the sewage works, proportional to the equipment and real property
necessary for wastewater treatment for each user° The method of computing the
initial user charge and debt service charge is contained in a report prepared
by McCullough & Associates, Public Accountants, Indianapolis, Indiana, and is
incorporated as a part hereof. Prior to May 1, of each year, the Clerk-Treasurer
shall prepare and present to the Board of Trustees an accounting of operation and
maintenance expenses, replacement costs and debt service for the immediately
preceding calendar year, and the Board of Trustees shall, upon receiving said
accounting, effect any change in the monthly sewer charges necessary to produce
revenue proportionate to costs for each user°
119. "Surcharge" shall mean a charge for sewerage services in addition to the basic
service charge.
119ol
'Strenth-of-Wastes Surcharge" shall mean the extra user charges for
sewerage service assessed users whose sewage is of such a nature that
it imposes upon the Sewage Works a burden greater than that covered by
the basic user charge.
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"Suspended Solids" shall mean solids which either float on the surface of or are
in suspension in water, sewage or other liquid and which are removable by
laboratory filtration. Their concentration shall be expressed in milligrams per
liter~ Quantitative determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures
set forth in "Standard Methods".
121. "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissable.
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202.
203.
204.
301.
~ Section 2. Sewer Charges Based on Water Usage
Water Obtained from the Town's Wate~ Utility. The sewer charges made for sewerage
service rendered to each lot, parcel of real estate or building having any
connection with the Town's sewerage system or otherwise discharging sewage into
that system, either directly or indirectly, shall be based upon the quantity of
water presumed to enter the public sewers after b~ing used in or on the property,
as the quantity is measured by the water meter or meters therein used by the
Town's Water Utility~ except as herein otherwise prov~ed.
Water Obtained from Other Sources. Where the propertv obtains any part or all of
the water used from sources other than the Town's Water Utility, the owner or
the tenant may be required by the Town to install and maintain at his own expense
a meter or meters acceptable to the To%~ for the purpose of measuring the quantity
of water obtained from these other sources, o~ the Town may determine the quantity
of such water by whatever means and methods it may find practicable~
Exempt Water - General° Where a significant portion of the metered water does
not and cannot enter the sewerage system{ either directly or indirectly~ and
where the quantity of water entering the premises averages mo~e than 20,000
gallons per month, the person having charge of the property may re~est permission
from the Town to install at his own expense either an approved meter or meters
to determine the quantity of water that cannot enter the sewerage system or an
approved sewage-measuring device/0r devices to determine the volume of sewage
that actually enters the sewerage system; when appropriate, the Town reserves
the right to determine by whatever other means and methods it may find practicable
the percentage of the property's metered water that enters the sewerage system.
In any case the user charge shall be applied to the ~uantity of water that can
or actually does enter the public sewers°
Metering of Sewag_~ The Town may require a user to install and maintain at his
own expense an approved device to measure directly the volumes of wastes dis-
charged to the sewerage system if these volumes cannot otherwise be determined
from the metered-water consumption records° Any non-residential user whose
monthly water consumption is 2,000 gallons or more shall install a m~ter. The
Town shall inspect and approve such ~nstallations and no such service~ once
installed, shall be removed without the Town's approval°
Section 3o Sewer Charges
For the use of and the service rendered by said sewage works, sewer charges
shall be collected from the o%~ers of each and every lot~ parcel of real estate
or building that is or could be connected to the Town's sewerage system or
otherwise discharges sanitary sewage industrial wastes~ water or other liquids,
either directly or indirectly, into the sewerage system of the Town~ which sewer
charges shall be payable as hereinafter provided and shall be in an amount deter-
minable as follows:
Monthly Minimum Sewer Charge
plus
$ 1.27
301~
302.
303.
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Continued
Monthly Metered Sewer Charge
User Charge
per 1~000
Gallons
Debt Service
Charge per
1~000 Gallohs
Total Monthly
Sewer Charge
per
1~000 Gallons
Consumption per Month
First 5~000 gallons $ 0°49 $ 0.41 $ 0°90
Next 10~000 gallons °49 °39
Next 10,000 gallons ~49 ~33 ~82
~49 °29 °78
Next 25~000 gallons
Next 50~000 gallons 049 o16 °65
Over 100~000 gallons °49 o12
The monthly flat sewer charge for any user who is not a metered water used
shall be:
Use~ Charge
Debt Service Charge
Monthly Minimum
Sewer Charge
Total
Monthly Flat
Sewer Charge
$ 2.45 $ 2.05 $ 1~27 $ 5°77
In the event two (2) or more dwelling units such as trailers, apartments or
housekeeping rooms discharging sanitary sewage~ water or other liquids into the
Town's sewerage system either directly or indirectly~ are users of water and
the quantity of water is measured by a single water meter, then in such case
billing shall be for a single service in the manner set out elsewhere herein~
except that the minimum bills per month shall not be less than the number of
such dwelling units times $0°90 plus $1.27~ In the case of trailer parks the
number of dwelling units shall be computed and interpreted as the total number of
trailers located and installed in said park plus any other dwelling units served
through the meter° A dwelling unit shall be interpreted as a room or rooms or
any other space or spaces in which cooking facilities are provided°
~nere a metered water supply is used for fire protection as well as for other uses~
the Town may~ in its discretion~ make adjustmentsin the minimum charge and in the
use charge as may be equitable°
In order that residential users of sewage services shall not be penalized for
the sprinkling of lawns during the months of July~ August and SePtember~ the
billing for sewage service for residential users for said months of July~ August
and September shall be based on the metered water usage for the previous months
of January~ February and March° In the event metered water usage for said
previous months of January~ February and March. is greater than the metered water
usage for the said months of July~ August and September, then the billing for
sewage services~shall be computed on the actual water used in the month for which
the sewage service bill is being rendered° Residential sewage service~ as
applicable to the sprinkling rate~ shall apply to each lot~ parcel of r~al estate
or building which is occupied and used as a residence. Said sprinkling rates
shall not apply to any premises which are partially or wholly used for industrial
or commercial purposes. In the event a portion of such premises shall be used
for commercial or industrial purposes~ the owner shall have the privilege of ~
separating the water service so that the residential portion of the pre~is~M is
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served through a separate meter~ and in such cases~ the water usage as registered
by the water meter using such portion of the premises used for the residential
purposes would qualify under the sprinkling rate~
305. For the service rendered to the Town, the Town shall be subject to the same sewer
charges hereinabove provided er to sewer charges established in harmony therewith°
306~ The user charges and debt service charges set forth in paragraph 301 shall be
changed, as necessary~ annually by the Board of Trustees in accordance with
paragraph 118.
401°
Section 4~ Strength-of-Wastes Surcharg~
Liability for Surcharge. Each industrial or non-industrial user who discharges
wastes into the sewerage system shall be subject to a surcharge~ in addition to
the regular sewer charges, based on both the biochemical oxygen demand (or on
the chemical oxygen demand where BOD cannot be determined)~ the suspended solids
content of the wastes and the phosphate content of the wastes~ if these wastes
have a concentration greater than the following:
a, A biochemical oxygen demand of 200 milligrams per liter; or
where BCD cannot be determined then~ in lieu of BOD~ a chemical
oxygen demand of 400 milligrams per liter,
b. A suspended solids content of 250 milligrams per liter°
c, A phosphate content of 6 milligrams per liter,
402, Computation of Surcharge, The surcharge shall be determined as follows:
a, The excess pounds of BOD (or COD) and of suspended solids will each be
computed by first multiplying the user's billing sewage volume measured
in units of 100 cubic feet for the current billing period by the factor
0.0062321 and then multiplying this product by the difference between (a)
the concentrations measured in milligrams per liter of the BOD (or CO~) and
of the suspended solids respectively in the user's sewage and (b),the
allowed concentrations set out in paragraph 401. The surcharge for each
constitutent will then be determined by multiplying the excess pounds of each
constituent by the appropriate rate of surcharge set out in paragraph 403.
The excess pounds of phosphate will be computed by first multiplying the
user's billing sewage volume measured in units of 100 cubic feet for the
current billing period by the factor 8°34 and then multiplying this product
by the difference between (a) the concentrations measured in milligrams per
liter of the phosphates (PO4-P} in the user"s sewage and (b) the allowed
concentrations set out in paragraph 401o The surcharge wi~l~,then be deter-
mined by multiplying the excess pounds by the appropriate rat~ of surcharge
set out in paragraph 403,
403. Rates of Surcharge° The rate of surcharge for each of the aforementioned, con-
stituents shall be as follows:
ac For biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) ................. 10,5 cents per pound
b. For chemical oxygen demand (COD) ~here
BCD cannot be determined ............................ t0o5 cents per pound
403 ~
404.
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502.
503°
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602.
603.
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Continued
co For suspended solids ............................... 6~5 cents per pound
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d. For phosphate (PO4-P) .............................. cents per pound
Revision of Rates of Surcharge. Prior to May 1 of each years the Clerk-Treasurer
shall submit to the Board of Trustees a comparison of the calculated unit costs
for removing BOD and suspended solids from the Wastewater Treatment Plant influ-
ent during the previous calendar year with the unit charges currently in effect
in order that the Board may determine whether the current rates of surcharge are
adequate or should be changed by the Board of Trustees°
Section 5o Billing of Service Charges
Billing Period. Sewer charges for sewerage service shall be prepared and billed
~y the Town along with the bills for water service and shall be payable at the
same time as the water bills°
Liability for Payment~ The sewer charges for sewerage service shall be billed to
the person being billed for water service unless~ by contract with the Utility~
another person assumes such responsibility. If a tenant is billed, the owner
shall in ao way be relieved of liability in the event payment is not made by the
tenant as herein required. Such owner shall have the right to examine the
Town"s collection records to ascertain whether such charges have been paid.
First Billings. The sewer charges and surcharges fixed in this ordinance shall
be extended to and cover any additional pre~nises hereafter served without the
need for any hearing or notice. If the first billing to a new customer covers
a period other than a full billing month~ then the sewer charges for such billing
shall be made in keeping with standard practice in the water utility, subsequent
sewerage service billings shall be for periods 'coinciding with the billing periods
for water service. If such sewer charges and/or surcharges are changed, the first
billing after such change may also be for a period other than a full billing month
in order to keep the sewerage billing periods coincident with the water billing
periods~
Section 6o Delinc~uent Accounts
How Delinquencies Arise. Charges for sewerage service levied pursuant to this
ordinance shall be due and payable on or before the due dates shown on the bills.
Any service charge not paid by the due date (approximately fifteen days after
the bill is rendered} shall be considered delinquent° Such delinquent charge
together with any applied penalty shall be collectible as hereinafter set forth°
Collection Through the Tax Duplicate. As provided by the Statutes of the State
of Indiana, delinquent sewerage'service charges may be made a lien against the
property served through certification to the Auditor and to the Recorder of the
County° In such case, the delinquent service charges, together with the mandatory
penalty of ten percents shall be placed on the tax'duplicate and be collected in
the same manner as regular taxes and assessments are collected.
Collection Through Court Actions~ In addition to the foregoing remedies~ the
Town shall have the right to bring a civil action to recover any delinquent
charges together with a penalty of ten percent and a reasonable attorney's fee°
It shall also have the right~ as provided by the Statutes of the State of Indiana~
to foreclose any lien established under the provisions of paragraph 602~ with
recovery of the charge, a penalty of ten percent and a reasonable attorney's fee°
701~
Section 7. General Provisions B~'
Bylaws~ Rules and Regulations° The Board of Trustees of the Town of Carmel shall~
in accordance with the Statutes of Indiana~ make and enforce whatever bylaws~
rules and regulations it may deem necessary for the safe~ economical and efficient
management of the Town's Sewage Works, for the regulation~ collection and refunding.
of the user charges for sewerage service and~ in general, for the implementation
of the provisions of this ordinance°
801.
Section 8. Validit~
~epeal of Conflicting Provisions. Ail the provisions of any ordinances~ previous
or now in existence~ and regulations which may be in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed as of the date this ordinance takes effect.
802 o
Validation Clause. The invalidity of any section~ sentence~ clause or provision
in this ordinance shall not affect the validity of any other section~ sentence,
clause or provision of this ordinance which can be given effect without such
invalid part or parts.
901.
Section 9o Effective Dates
General Provisions. The provisions of this ordinance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage and signing by the Board of Trustees°
/ -/' JClerk~reasur~r-
Passed and adopt~ by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Carmel~ Indiana on the
0 day of l 7So
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
NOTES TO RATE ORDINANCE
(Page 1)
1
Note A - Surcharge for excessive phosphate loading will be established after additional
testing completed by Clyde E~ Williams.
SECTION IV
SCHEDULES IN SUPPORT OF MONTHLY SEWER CHARGES AND SURCHARGES
(Re~ort of McCULLOUGH & ASSOCIATES)
(Pages 1 to 14, inclusive)
MUNICIPAL SEWAGE WORKS
Carmel, Indiana
Table of Contents
Estimated Annual Revenues and Revenue Requirements
Estimated Annual Revenues and Revenue Requirements
(Method Used in Determining) Reference (1)
Monthly Sewer Charge including User Charge System
and Debt Service (Method Used in Determining)
Estimated Annual Operation and Maintenance Expenses Reference (2)
Replacement Costs Reference (2A)
Debt Service Reference (3)
Consolidated Amortization Schedule
$207,000 Outstanding Sewage Works Revenue Bonds of 1960
$276,000 Outstanding Sewage Works Revenue Bonds of 1968
$1,065,000 Sewage Works Refunding and Improvement
Revenue Bonds
Proposed Monthly Sewer Charges
Surcharge for Excessive Loading - Industrial and/or Non-Industrial
Class (Method Used in Determining)
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