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Title 18, Chapter 1
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Title 18 : Water and Sewers
Chapter 6 : Sewer Use Regulations

18-615 : Fees.

  1. Purpose. It is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the recovery of costs from users of the town's wastewater disposal system for the administration, operation, maintenance, amortization of debt, and depreciation of the POTW. The applicable charges or fees shall be set forth in the town's schedule of charges and fees.

  2. Charges and fees. The town may adopt charges and fees which may include:

    1. Fees for reimbursement of costs of setting up and operating the POTW's pretreatment program;
    2. Fees for monitoring, inspections and surveillance procedures associated with significant industrial users;
    3. Fees for reviewing accidental discharge procedures and construction plans and specifications for significant industrial users;
    4. Fees for permit applications;
    5. Fees for inspection of building sewer connections;
    6. Fees for filing appeals of enforcement actions taken by the town;
    7. Fees for treating conventional pollutants discharged to the POTW by industrial users with strengths in excess of the design capacity of the POTW treatment plant for individual conventional pollutants;
    8. Charges to users for recovery of costs associated with normal operation, maintenance, administration, amortization of debt and depreciation of the POTW;
    9. Other fees as the town may deem necessary to carry out the requirements contained herein.

    These fees relate solely to the matters covered by this chapter and are separate from all other fees chargeable by the town.

  3. Surcharge fees. If an industrial user discharges in excess of the criteria to protect the POTW treatment plant influent set out for the conventional pollutants BOD, TSS, NH3-N, and/or oil and grease in §§ 18-609 and 18-610, additional operation and maintenance costs will be incurred by the town. Therefore any user who discharges in excess of the limits for any of these parameters will be subject to a surcharge. The formula for this surcharge is listed below. Surcharges shall be in addition to normal user fees.

    The town also reserves the right to, at any time, place limits which may not be exceeded on the industrial user's discharge if the industrial user's discharge of the excessive strength wastewater causes to the POTW treatment plant to violate its NPDES permit.

    As an alternate to this formula, the town may calculate surcharge fees based on actual costs caused by the discharge of excessive strength conventional pollutants.