HomeMy WebLinkAbout033738 ORD - 09/09/2025Ordinance amending Corpus Christi Code Section 55-54 to update water utilities
laboratory charges effective January 1, 2026
SECTION 1. Section 55-54 of the Corpus Christi Code is amended to delete the struck -
through text and insert the underlined text shown as follows:
Sec. 55-54. Water utilities laboratory charges.
(a) The following fees apply to tests performed at the city's water utilities laboratory for other government
agencies and private parties:
NELAP Accredited Parameters
Fee
Total Coliform and E. coli (Presence / Absence)
$20.00 37-08
Fecal Coliform (Membrane Filtration)
$30.00 20.00
Escherichia coli (E. Coll) (Most Probable Number)
$20.00 37:88
Enterococci (Most Probable Number)
$20.004-7-.00
Hexane Extractable Material (HEM)
$50.00
Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
$40.00 35.00
Specific Ultra Violet Absorption (SUVA)
$35.00
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)
$35.00 30.00
CarbonaciousCarbonaceous Biochemical Oxygen Demand
$35.0032.00
(CBOD)
Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
$30.00
Total Suspended Solids (TSS)
$20.00 4-5-.00
Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
$25.00 20-00
Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN)
$45.00 35.00
Dissolved Total Kieldahl Nitrogen
$55.00
Nitrite Nitrate N Total Nitrate Nitrogen
$25.00
and as
Nitrite and Nitrate as N (High Salinity)
$50.00
Ammonia N Total Ammonia Nitrogen
$25.00
as
Total Phosphorus
$30.00 25.00
Dissolved Phosphorus
$40.00 30.08
Total Nitrite Nitrogen
$2
Chloride
$20.004-2,00
UV 25'1
$20.00
$-5-00
Total Alkalinity
$25.00 $40488
Conductivity
$15.00 $40,00
Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)
$45.00 3-7,08
Turbidity
$4.0.80
Total Hardness
$25.00 20.00
Sulfate Ion Chromatography
$25.00 20.00
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SCANNED
Bromide Ion Chromatography
$20.00
Fluoride
$20.00
Chloride Ion Chromatography
$20.00
Orthophosphate
$20.00
Chlorite
$25.00
00
$.20700
Heterotrophic Dlatc Count
$ -5 00
TCEQApproved Parameters
Fee
UV 254
$35.00
Calcium
$20.00
Turbidity
$15.00
al
$15.00
Non -Accredited Parameters
Fee
Fecal Coliform (Most Probable Number)
$25.00
Specific Ultra -Violet Absorption (SUVA)
$50.00
Heterotrophic Plate Count
$15.00
Total Coliform (Most Probable Number)
$25.00
(b) If a test or laboratory fee is requested that is not listed in subsection (a) of this section, the water utilities
laboratory should charge a fee that recovers the city's labor, material, and equipment costs.
(c) The city manager may waive fees in the interest of public safety or as the city's contribution to a project in
which the city is involved.
(Ord. No. 027781, § 3, 7-22-2008; Ord. No. 029158, § 2, 7-26-2011; Ord. No. 030295, § 2, 9-23-2014)
SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or
provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of
competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase,
word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every
section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and
effect for its purpose.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance akes effect on ,anuary 1, 2026.
Introduced and voted on the a day of ca�W , 2025.
Plj,SE��and APPROVED on the .9kAN day of 5 O k • h(( , 2025.
ATTEST:
Paulette Guajardo, Ma
EFFECTIVE DATE
Rebecca Huerta, City Secretary
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