RESO CC 1979-14 - EPA Regulations RESOLUTION NO. 79-14
In order to comply with the spirit and intent of the regulations
established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency relative
to fixing of fees to pay for the collection and treatment costs of a
sanitary sewer system, the City Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas ,
who are the duly elected representatives of the community, do hereby resolve
to establish an ordinance relating to the following criteria:
1 . All operations and maintenance costs will be assessed to
each user proportionately, based on a percentage of the
---_----metered-water consumption at each location.
2. Capital improvement costs and debt service, as well as
fixed overhead costs, will be assessed each dwelling unit
at a base fee established annually at a rate sufficient to
retire any applicable costs and debt on an equal basis among
the users.
3. The ordinance providing for the base fee and. proportionate
costs will be established and implemented prior to the com-
pletion of 80 percent of the work on the Parker Creek Sewer
Treatment facility, and amended annually thereafter by October
1 of each year as may be necessary.
Section 17-55 of the Industrial Waste Ordinance of the Huntsville Code
of Ordinances shall be amended to reflect the following:
Any user which generates effluent with a stronger toxicity
than a BOD of 250 mg/l or a TSS of 250. mg/l shall be
required to pretreat their effluent in such a manner as to
correct the deficiency and to the satisfaction of the
Utilities Department of the City of Huntsville, or pay for
the usage at the industrial cost recovery rate, proportion-
ate to the volume and strength of the effluent to be treated.
APPROVED this the 23rd day of October, A.D. , 1979
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS
BY-
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M rris I. Waller, Mayor
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Rath DeShaw, City Secretary
SEWER RATE APPENDIX
CRITERIA
Developed on the basis of the Fiscal Year 1979-1980 budget; the debt
service related to the new Parker Creek Treatment Facility in equal annual
amounts paid out over a twenty (.20) year period at 62 percent estimated
interest rate and the estimated-addi -toTal--operatTo-na7—costs for- the ne - —
facility.
COSTS
--Applicable in Fiscal Year 1979-1980 Operating and Maintenance
---- - B-udgets--(1/3 of-Customer Service, Sewer Collection, North
Plant and 1/2 of the South Plant . . . . . . . . . $ 639,6.04
--Debt Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 268,126
--Additional Operating and Maintenance for Parker Creek
Plant (estimate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 117,000
ANNUAL COSTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 ,024,730
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REVENUE
Base Rate Calculations
Debt Service: $268,126
Total Units: 8,173 , - $2.73 per unit/month
Contingency and Growth •27 per unit/month
$3.00 per unit/month
Average Month--Net Annual Revenue Calculation (Sept. ) $ 303.871
Institutional Water Sales
Annually at $ .75/thousand gallons . . . . . . . . $ 405,189
Annual Revenue SUBTOTAL . . . . . . . . . $ 709,060
Residential Rates
Annual Revenue at $ .75/thousand gallons
of water consumption of 711 ,581 ,500 gallons . . . . $ 116,797
Ce;�rnerci al Rates
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Annual Revenue at $ .75/Thousand gallons . . . . . . $ 198,873
TOTAL REVENUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 ,024,730
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CUSTOMER ANALYSIS
Residential
Note: Computed on $ .75/Thousand
on 59% consumption.
Average Homeowner Existing System New System
10,000 gal l ons/month---------- -----Base Rate Rate -0- $ 3.00
Proposed Increase $ 6.75* 7.43
Commercial
Note: Computed on $ .75/Thousand
gallons.
Apartment Units Existing System New System
100 units at 3,000
gallons/month/unit (avg. ) $525.00 $225.00
Base Rate -0- $300.00
Proposed Increase $675.00* 525.00
Restaurants
79,000 gallons consumption $ 22.65 $ 59.25
Base Rate -0= $ 3.00
Proposed Increase $ 23.85* 62.25
*Increases expected under existing system and anticipated October 1 ,
1979--not implemented.
GP/PA:rd
10-23-79
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SECRETARY'S CERTIFICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WALKER
I, Ruth DeShaw, City Secretary of the City of Huntsville, Texas,
do hereby certify the attached Resolution No. 79-14 is the original
and official copy of the resolution passed by.�unanimous vote of the
Huntsville City Council in their regular City. Council Meeting of
October 23, 1979, held in the City Hall. in Huntsville, Walker County,
Texas.
In witness whereof and in testimony thereto, I hereto set my
signature and seal of office.
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS
(SEAL)
Ruth DeShaw, City Secretary
October 23, 1979
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