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Customer Account Set-up Fee:
Customers within the City limits are charged a $15.00 account set-up fee for setting up a new account. Customers outside the City limits are charged
a $35.00 account set-up fee.
Water Rates and Information:
Base Charge: Each customer pays a base charge,
which is based on meter size. A 5/8 meter serves most
residences. The base charge pays for a portion of
general system maintenance and service costs.
Usage Charge: Your water consumption is determined
based on the reading of your water meter. The consumption
charge pays for the cost of the water which includes
storage, treatment and transmission costs as well as
an amount set aside for system replacement.
Sewer Billing and Information
Base Charge: Each customer is charged based on the number of equivalent
dwelling units (EDU's). Single family residential units are counted as
one EDU, a duplex would be counted as two EDU's, etc. Each EDU is $22.46
per month and is referred to as the Base Charge on the sewer portion of
your bill. This charge is used to pay for the systems required to collect
the sewage and for the construction and operation of Clean Water Services
wastewater treatment facilities.
Usage Charge: A usage charge of $1.50 per unit of water consumed is based
on a customer's average water consumption between the months of November
and April. The November through April time period is referred to as the
wintertime average and is used because customers typically are not consuming
large amounts of water due to irrigation. Each customer's wintertime average
is calculated and adjusted each July to be used in the customer's usage
charge for the upcoming fiscal year (July through June). The wintertime
average is a good indicator of the wastewater your household produces
and discharges into the sewer system.
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Example: A customers water usage,
from the bi-monthly bills is as follows:
November through December 18 hundred cubic feet
used
January through February 16 hundred cubic feet
used
March through April 20 hundred cubic feet used
18 + 16 + 20 = 54 / 3 (billings) = an average of 18 hundred cubic feet (ccf) or 9 ccf per month.
The customer's wintertime average over the November through April period would be 18 hundred cubic feet (ccf). The $1.50 usage charge would be multiplied by the 18ccf to determine the monthly usage charge of $27.00, per billing period, for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Surface Water Management
Billing and Information
Surface Water Charge: Surface water management charges
are measured in Equivalent Service Units (ESU). An ESU
is a measurement of the impervious, or nonporous, surface
area on a property. Single family residents are considered
to have one ESU (2,640 square feet of impervious surface
area) and are charged $4.75 per month. All non-single
family residential properties are calculated based on
the actual amount of impervious surface area. The fees
collected from SWM charges are used to maintain the
storm runoff facilities including ditches, street drains,
and catch basins. These funds are also used to help
clean up the various streams and rivers in our area,
prepare for emergency flood response, and protect the
environment from polluted runoff
Please visit www.cleanwaterservices.org for
further information on the sewer and SWM services, or
call (503) 681.3600.
Transportation Utility Fee (TUF)
TUF pays for street maintenance and provides limited funding for pedestrian and bicycle improvements projects. TUF is based on the estimated number of roadway trips generated by a property. For residential customers, the amount of trips is the same for each dwelling unit and the fee is a flat rate per dwelling unit.
For non-residential customers, the use of the property determines the trip generation rate which in turn determines which of the seven non-residential billing rates the property receives. For most properties the fee is determined by multiplying the square footage of the structures by the appropriate billing rate.
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