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Home My WebLink About15304 ORD - 01/16/1980AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 55, UTILITIES, ARTICLE XI, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL STANDARDS, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1976 REVISION, BY AMENDING SECTION 55-140, DEFINITIONS, TO DEFINE "INDUSTRIAL USER" AS HEREINAFTER SET FORTH; AMENDING SECTION 55-143, SO AS TO REVISE TITLE AND ADD SUB- SECTION C, PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF INDUSTRIAL COST RECOVERY PAYMENTS, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH HEREINAFTER; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Chapter 55, UTILITIES, Article XI, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL STANDARDS, of the Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi, 1976 Revision, be and the same is hereby amended by amending Section 55-140, Definitions, to include the following definition of "Industrial User": "Industrial User. By the term 'industrial user' is meant any non- governmental; nonresidential user of publicly owned treatment works which discharges (1) sewage containing more than 52.13 pounds of BOD or suspended solids per day; or (2) more than 25,000 gallons per day of normal sewage; and which is identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under one of the following divisions: Division A - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Division B - Mining Division D - Manufacturing Division E - Transportation, Communication, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services Division I - Services." SECTION 2. That Chapter 55, UTILITIES, Article XI, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISPOSAL STANDARDS, of the Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi, 1976 Revision, be and the same is hereby amended by changing the title of Section 55-143, Pretreatment and Surcharge, to Pretreatment, Sur- charge, and Industrial Cost Recovery, and by adding the following subsection (C) to said section 55-143: "(C) Industrial Cost Recovery. (1) In addition to any other charge imposed by law, including but not limited to any abnormal sewage surcharge, each industrial user of the City's MICROFILMED, 15304 .av� ��192o tl treatment works shall pay an Industrial Cost Recovery amount, ICR, calculated in dollars for the billing period, to be computed as follows: ICR= Iv + Ib + Is where Iv = (V) ( 7.778) Ib = (V) (8.34) (BOD) (.00662 ) IS = (V) (8.34) (s.$) (.00592 •) V Volume of sewage flow in million gallons during the billing period. . 8.34 Weight of water in pounds per gallon. BOD BOD strength index in parts per million by weight. s.s: = Suspended solids strength index in parts per million by weight. 7.778 = Unit charge in dollars per million gallons of sewage flow. .00662 = Unit charge in dollars per pound of BOD. .00592- _ •Unit charge in dollars per pound of suspended solids. (2) industrial Cost Recovery payments shall commence with the first regular monthly billing for sewage service after July 1, 1980, or in the event that rhs Congress of the United States shall have declared a moratorium for the collection of Industrial Cost Recovery charges, payments shall begin as authorized_by the Congress. r (3) The Director of Public Utilities shall establish standard values of BOD and. suspended solids content for various industries, and the values to be used in ciat=rnrin;ng the Industrial Cost Recovery amount for a particular indus— trial user sb 11 be the standard values so established for that particular type of user. However, either the industrial user at its expense or the City at its expense may sample the discharge of the industrial user to determine more ac— curate values for the BOD and suspended solids being discharged. Sampling done by as industrial user shall be under the direction of a Registered Professional Engineer employed by it. The samples collected and the, values determined by the industrial user shall be'based on a twenty—four hour composite representative of the industrial user's flow, and reports of such tests submitted to the City shall state that they were conducted in said manner. Values determined by composite sampling shall take precedent over standard values. Where an Indus-- trial user is of a type for which the City has not established standard values, values will be determined by composite sampling, or in the case of a new in— dustrial user not yet discharging, from data available from the industrial -2- user, other similar industrial users, or from other cities. (4) The volume of an industrial user's sewage flow, for purposes of computing the Industrial Cost Recovery amount, shall be determined in the same manner that volume of flow is measured for purposes of computing the abnormal sewage surcharge, as described in § 55-142 (H) of this Code." SECTION 3. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith shall be and are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after',Tanuary�0;-,'1980.w. SECTION 5. 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 6. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, which publication shall contain the caption stating in substance the purpose of this ordinance. That the foregoing ordinance wasr,read for t•• first t'me and assed to its second reading on this the o<22 day of � , 197, by the following vote: Luther Jones Edward L. Sample Dr. Jack Best David Diaz Jack K. Dumphy Betty N. Turner Cliff Zarsky That the foregoing ordinance was read for t econd ime and passed to its third reading on this the a 9 day of , 19'77 , by the following vote: Luther Jones Edward L. Sample Dr. Jack Best David Diaz Jack K. Dumphy Betty N. Turner Cliff Zarsky That the fore ng ordina on this the /. day of Luther Jones Edward L. Sample Dr. Jack Best David Diaz Jack K. Dumphy Betty N. Turner Cliff Zarsky PASSED AND APPROVED, this the ATTEST: was read for the third time and passed finally , 19 J , by the following vote: y Secre ary APPROVED: // DAY OF , 197y : J. BRUCE AVCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY /t MAYOR' / THE CIT OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 153Q4 PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT £ y' TATE OF TEXAS, County of Nueces. }5s: Be ore me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ELMA RODE A , who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, f Accounting Clerk Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of Notice of Passage of Ordianance No. 15304 Amending Chapter 55, Utilities,... of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in on the. -..21 day of January consecutive Times. 838.50 Corpus Christi Caller -Times 19 $0., and once each ffigigitelXf6E Elma Rodela Accounting Clerk Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2.3rti day of Jazwar.y 19 0 Lois Winn Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas t NOTICE OF PASSAGE ' OF ORDINANCE et NO. 15304 AMENCONG' CHAPTER 55, UTIC.ITIES, ARTICLES XL.TMERCIAL AND IN. Dew/ - WASTE S, ZANDARDS, OF THE WOE OF °ROY- NANCES, CITY OF CO PUS CHRISTI, 1976 RE, VISION, BY AMENDING SECTION 55-140, DEFINN TIONS, TO DEFINE "IN- DUSTRIAL USER" A6 HEREINAFTER SET FORTH; AMENDING SEC- TION 55-143, 50 AS TO R VISE TITLE AND AD SUBSECTION C, PROVID; ING FOR THE COLLEC- TION OF INDUSTRIA • • COST RECOVERY PAy• MENTS, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH HEREINAFTER; PROVief ING AN EFFECTIVE DATE: PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLY- CATION. WAS PASSED AND A , PROVED by the City Council of he City of Corpus Christi.; Texas during the Regula, Council Meeting held on the 16th day of January, 1980.9 2:00 p.m. and providing pub' licatIon one time In the off.L. cial publication of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas: -ISSUED UNDER MA? HAND AND SEAL of the City of Corpus Christi, Teeth his 17th day of January,. 960. -0-13111 G. Read, City Secretary City of Corpus Christi, Texas. 5.1 . :::r • J • MOTION Council Member Jack Dumphlnoved and Mayor Pro Tem Sample seconded the motion that the ordinance proposing to amend Chapter 55, UTILITIES, Article XI, Commercial and Industrial Waste Disposal Standards, read on the first two of three readings on August 22, 1979 and August 29, 1979, be amended prior to the third and final reading as follows: 1. Amend Section 2 by amending (C) Industrial Cost Recovery, (1), items 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 as follows: Iv = (v) (7.778) Ib = (V) (8.34) (BOD) (.00662) IS = (V) 8.34) (s.$) (.00592) 7.778 = Unit charge in dollars per million gallons of sewage flow. .00662 = Unit charge in dollars per pound of BOD. .00592 = Unit charge in dollars per pound of suspended solids. 2. _Amend paragraph (2) of Subsection (C) by .changing the date from January 1, 1980 to July 1, 1980. 3. Amend Section 4 so as to change the effective date of the ordinance from September 5, 1979 to January 23, 1980. PASSED AND APPROVED January 16, 1980