Title 13 Public Utilities and Services
Chapter 13.03 Sewers
Article XI. Rates
Section 13.03.1210 Industrial Users
- Industrial users shall be charged, for each account, the basic service charges plus their established user charge.
- The industrial user charge shall be determined for each account according to:
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- constant metering by the City of Spokane of actual wastewater flow from a specific property; or
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- water consumption at a specific property as determined by actual metering by the City of Spokane of water supplied from all sources; or
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- 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:
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- user charge rate for standard wastewater strength, or
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- rate for standard wastewater strength plus a surcharge.
- The industrial 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 industrial user or for the discharge of a typical representative of a class of industrial users.
- An industrial user’s or class of industrial user’s wastewater strength shall be determined by the City during a monitoring period each year, conducted by the director.
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- 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.
Date Passed: Monday, October 15, 2007
Effective Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Recodification ORD C34122 Section 1
