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Committee reviews proposed sewer-rate approach to curb inflow and infiltration; staff to refine single-family language
Summary
Public Works presented amendments to the city’s rates-and-fees ordinance to allow billing for measured inflow and infiltration (I&I); staff emphasized targeting large commercial and multifamily sources and asked for more work on single-family homeowner language.
City Public Works staff presented proposed amendments June 5 to the general ordinance (Chapter 200‑24, Article 2) that would let the city apply sewer-user charges to measured inflow and infiltration (I&I) and otherwise use existing ordinance fines and court remedies to force correction.
Public Works Director (referred to in the meeting as Director Norris) told the committee that I&I is “an enormous problem” that increases treatment volumes and costs for ratepayers. He cited monthly production and treatment figures: in April the city produced an average of 1,740,000 gallons per day of drinking water and treated 4,220,000 gallons per day at the wastewater plant; in May those figures…
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