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Title 13
Chapter 13.03
Section 13.03.1206
 

Title 13 Public Utilities and Services

Chapter 13.03 Sewers

Article XI. Rates

Section 13.03.1206 Commercial Users
  1. Commercial users shall be charged, for each account, the basic service charges plus the user charge or the rate for a single-dwelling unit, whichever is greater.
  1. The commercial user charge shall be determined for each account according to:
    1. actual metering by the City of Spokane of wastewater flow from a specific property; or
    1. water consumption at a specific property as determined by actual metering by the City of Spokane of water supplied from all sources; or
    1. consumptive water uses determined by the director not to contribute wastewater loading to the sewage collection and treatment system as measured by methods approved by the director and either the:
      1. user charge rate for standard commercial wastewater strength, or
      1. rate for standard commercial wastewater strength plus a surcharge.
  1. The commercial user surcharge shall be calculated from the strength of the wastewater discharged by a specific user, as determined by a monitoring program conducted by the director, of the individual discharge of the commercial user or for the discharge of a typical representative of a class of commercial users.
  1. A commercial, or class of commercial, user’s wastewater strength shall be determined by the City during a monitoring period each year conducted by the director. Time interval composite samples taken at the wastewater monitoring access (see SMC 13.03.1304, etc.) shall be used to determine wastewater strength unless flow proportional sampling equipment is available (see SMC 13.03.130), in which case the samples shall be flow proportioned.
  1. The commercial user surcharge rate shall be established annually, where applicable, for the commercial entity based on data for the previous sampling period and may be adjusted at the end of each year for future billing periods.

Date Passed: Monday, October 15, 2007

Effective Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Recodification ORD C34122 Section 1