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ORDINANCE NO. 2 5 5 6
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING IN PART AND REPEALING IN
PART CHAPTER 34, UTILITIES, DIVISION 2, USE,
AND DIVISION 3, RATES AND CHARGES, OF THE CODE
OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA:
1. That Chapter 34, Utilities, Division 2, Use, is hereby amended by
adding a section to be numbered Section 34-48, which section reads as follows:
Sec. 34-48. No person shall discharge any uncontaminated waters
to the storm drains without providing information to the
City Engineer and the Superintendent of Water Pollution
Control Plant as to the volume, characteristics, possible
pollution of the water, and the ability to separate at the
source waters going to the storm sewer. The user shall,
at his expense, separate and provide a separate meter at
the source waters and provide a separate sewer system to
the storm system.
2. That Section 34-54 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
3. That a new Section 34-54 is hereby enacted in lieu thereof as follows:
Sec. 34-54. Basic charge and rates established; basis of
determination; increase of rates and charges for
delinquent payments.
Each and every lot, parcel or real estate or building or
premises situated within or without the city that is connected
with and uses the sewer outlet and purifying plant of the city,
by or through any part of the sewerage system of the city, or
that in any way uses or is served by a sewer outlet and the
purifying plant or otherwise discharges sanitary sewage, industrial
waste, water or other liquid, either directly or indirectly, into
the sewerage system of the city, shall pay a service charge, rate
or rental to the cit in accordance with the following schedule:
(a) TheYey rate shall be sixty (60) per cent of the
water bill incurred with the Waterloo Water Works for
water consumption during the winter quarter. A winter
quarter water bill is a bill that is submitted for
three months, covering the months of November, December,
January, February, March and April or any portion
thereof. Those users of water being billed on a
monthly basis by the Waterloo Water Works, the monthly
rate shall be sixty (60) per cent of the average water
bill for the months of December, January, and February.
Any special or private contracts shall be metered at
the user's expense.
(b) Each user who discharges per month more than one million
(1,000,000) cubic feet of sewage into a city sewer shall
pay an additional rate on the monthly amount of such
excess over one million (1,000,000) cubic feet, or
fraction thereof, up to and including the next five
million (5,000,000) cubic feet, of two cents ($0.02)
per one hundred (100) cubic feet, and on the next five
million (5,000,000) cubic feet, or fraction thereof,
the user shall pay monthly one and one-half cents
($0.011) per one hundred (100) cubic feet, and any user
who discharges in excess of eleven million (11,000,000)
cubic feet per month shall pay one cent ($0.01) per one
hundred cubic feet, or fraction thereof, on the excess
over eleven million (11,000,000) cubic feet per month.
(c) Users who are located outside of the limits of the city,
shall pay double the rate specified in this section.
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(d) If the rates as specified in this division are not paid
when due as required by this division, there shall be
added to the rates a penalty of ten per cent. The Clerk
shall certify to the County Auditor all sewer rates,
charges, or rentals and penalties delinquent.
(e) The rate for waste waters or other sewage in excess of
five hundred (500) cubic feet per month having a B.O.D.
of more than three hundred (300) parts per million, and
containing no such chemical or other substance as would
interfere with the proper operation of the purifying
plant, shall be higher than the rates specified, and shall
bear the same ratio to the rates specified in Section 34-55,
as the B.O.D. of the waste waters or sewage bears to three
hundred (300) .
4. That Section 34-55 is hereby amended by adding the following
paragraph:
The rates for the Rath Packing Company shall be as follows:
VOLUME OF SEWAGE DISCHARGED RATE PER 100 CUBIC
PER MONTH FEET OR FRACTION
THEREOF
First 2,000 cubic feet $0.08
Next 2,000 cubic feet 0.07
Next 3,000 cubic feet 0.06
Next 3,000 cubic feet 0.05
Next 90,000 cubic feet 0.04
Next 900,000 cubic feet 0.03
Over 1,000,000 cubic feet 0.02
5. That Section 34-56 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
6. That a new Section 34-56 is hereby enacted in lieu thereof as follows:
Section 34-56. Volume of sewage discharged to be based on
volume of water consumed; metering of private
water supplies.
The amount of sewage discharged into a city sewer by any
user shall be determined by and held to be the same as the amount
of water used by him and discharged into the sewer, except as
otherwise provided in this division, and the amount of water
used by any user shall be determined by and held to be the amount
of water used by him as shown by the meter readings of the
waterworks of the city or the meter readings for the water from
a private water supply. If a user shall use water which, in
whole or in part comes from a private water supply, the user
may be required to meter the water coming from a private water
supply at his own expense.
7. That Section 34-57 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
Passed and adopted this 12th day of April ,1971.
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Mayor
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City Clerk
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STATE OF IOWA, SS
Publisher or t11 IV i x100 ,patlp. Courier
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Black Hawk County, a daily newspaper printed in the English
language and published in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa do solemnly swear that
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the annexed copy of Ordinance No.
notice was published in the English language only regularly
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BEIT IOWA.S, CITY OF WATER- in the issues of
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY of said newspaper, and
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATER-
LOO, IOWA:
1. That Chereby a deties, Division
2, Use, is hereby amended by adding that the annexed rate of advertising is the regular lega rate o
a section to be numbered Section 34-48,1
which section reads as follows:
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said newspaper, and that the following is a correct bill for pub-
storm 34-48. No person shall discharge,
any uncontaminated waters to the'
storm drains without providing in lishing said notice.. t
formation to the City Engineer and Printer's Bill y i 5 e 10
the Superintendent of Water Pollu-
tion Control Plant as to the volume,
characteristics, possible pollution of
the water,and the ability to separate
at the source waters going to the storm sewer. The user shall, at his day
expense, separate and provide a y
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separate meter at the source waters
and provide a separate sewer system Subscribed and sworn to before me t is
to the storm system. 1 19--�1
2. That Section 34-54 Is hereby re ".t 1J•, ��,\
pealed In Its newety. of /7+ 71f ----
3. That a new Section 34-54 Is hereby �`�
enacted in lieu thereof as follows: tlNotary Public
Sec. 34-54. Basic charge and rates
established, basis of determination;
increase of rates and charges for
i delinquent payments.
Each and every lot, parcel or real
estate or building or premises situated Received of Dollars
within or without the city that Is con-
nected with and uses the sewer outlet
and purifying plant of the city, by or the sum of
through ony part of the sewerage system
of the city, or that in any way uses
or is served by a sewer outlet and the' in full for publication of the above notice.
purifying plant or otherwise discharges:
sanitary sewage, industrial waste, water' Publishers
or other liquid, either directly or in-'
directly, Into the sewerage system of the;
city, shall pay a service charge, rate
or rental to the city in accordance with
the following schedule:
(a) The maximum quarterly rote shall
be sixty (60) per cent of the water
bill Incurred with the Waterloo
Wafer Works for water consump-
tion during the winter quarter. A
J1 winter quarter water bill is a bill