American Canyon Municipal Code Ch. 14.06 Wastewater Capacity Fee

The purpose of a wastewater capacity fee or wastewater

connection fee is to allow the city to recover the costs associated with providing a new connection to the system with capacity in the wastewater system. The fee is set to recover the costs of all existing infrastructure, provided by existing customers for the benefit of the new connection, as well as all future capital projects required to provide that new connection with sufficient wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal capacity in the system.

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(A) At the time of submission of application for building permit for connection to the city wastewater collection system, an applicant shall pay a wastewater capacity fee in proportion to use of the capacity of the wastewater system.

(B) For the purposes of calculating the wastewater capacity fee, a single-family residence will be considered one "equivalent dwelling unit (EDU)," with one EDU being equal to a discharge of an average of three hundred gallons per day to the sanitary sewer. For the purposes of calculating the average daily discharge to the sanitary sewer for a multifamily residence, each multifamily residence unit will be assumed to be sixty-five percent of one single-family unit.

(C) All applications for connection to the wastewater system by nonresidential connections will be required to pay a wastewater capacity fee proportional to the expected average daily discharge to the sewer system, as calculated by the applicant and certified by the city manager, public works director, or other designated staff. The applicant shall, using commonly accepted building and plumbing practices (such as the Uniform Plumbing

Code) demonstrate the average daily discharge to the wastewater system, and the wastewater capacity fee will be calculated by multiplying this average daily discharge by the unit cost per gallons per day (gpd) according to the schedule below.

(D) Wastewater capacity fees for all normal strength connections, as defined by Section 14.04.005, shall be calculated based on the following schedule:

Single-family residence (one EDU) $8,016.00

Multifamily residence (.65 EDU) $5,210.00

Commercial/industrial/public/other (per gpd) $26.72

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(A) For all high strength connections to the wastewater system, the wastewater capacity fee shall be calculated based on the numbers of EDUs of the new connection, with each EDU paying the same rate as one EDU as outlined in Section 14.06.020(D).

EDUs = Average daily flow X [.448 + (.276 x BOD in mg/l) + (.276 x TSS in mg/l)]

300 gpd 236 mg/l 238 mg/l

"BOD" means bio-chemical oxygen demand and "TSS" means total suspended solids. BOD and TSS are expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/l). Values of BOD and TSS for a particular project shall be subject to approval by the city engineer. The charges shall be subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 14.04.050(B).

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If, in the

judgment of the city manager or public works director, and after the final wastewater capacity fee is established, any customer increases the discharge to the wastewater system in a substantial and permanent way, due to changes in the size or nature of the building or premises previously permitted, the city shall charge and collect additional wastewater capacity charges based upon the increased use of wastewater capacity. The additional wastewater capacity fee shall be established by computing the new number of EDUs in service at the connection, and then subtracting from that figure the number of EDUs originally purchased in accordance with Section 14.08.020 or 14.08.030.

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(A) The city council may adopt by resolution, temporary wastewater connection fees based on a finding by the city council that a particular use is temporary and does not conform to the typical use categories of residential, commercial or industrial. In such cases the temporary wastewater connection fee shall be charged for each unit of seven hundred forty-eight gallons of wastewater flow based on the following formula:

Temporary Connection Fee = $3.29/unit of wastewater x (0.448 + (.276 x BOD (in mg/l) ÷ 236) + (0.276 TSS (in mg/l) ÷ 238))

(B) The city manager or his or her designee may be delegated responsibility for billing and monitoring temporary connection fees in accordance with this section.

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(A) The city at its sole discretion may adopt revised wastewater connection fees based on the proportionate effects of inflation or changes to the cost of living. The Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index for the San Francisco Area shall be used for adjusting wastewater connection fees. The adjustments in accordance with this section shall be made annually through 2011, thereafter adjustments to the connection/capacity fees shall be approved by a resolution of the city council.

(B) The city council, at its sole discretion, may commit participation by the general fund of the city for fifty percent of the connection fee in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars to be applied to wastewater connection fees for a qualifying nonprofit or charitable organization in the city.

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The city council may adopt by resolution a plan of reclaimed water

mains to serve future growth of the city. New development which fronts such reclaimed water mains may be required to install such mains at no cost to the city.

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(A) The city dedicates the following sources of revenue to repayment of any and all State Revolving Fund loans on Project No. C-06-4666-110, the water treatment and reclamation project: waste user charges, wastewater connection fees and connection fees, where appropriate. This dedicated source of revenue shall remain in effect until any such loan (or loans) is fully discharged, unless modification or change of such dedication is approved in writing by the State Water Resources Control Board.

(B) A wastewater capital reserve fund is established. Deposits to the fund shall be made annually by the city council, not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars per year but at least 0.5 percent of the loan amount for the wastewater treatment plant project. Such funds shall be maintained in accordance with "The Policy for Implementation State Revolving Fund for Construction of Waste Water Treatment Facilities," as adopted by the state of California Water Resources Control Board.

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