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Council adopts ordinance requiring annual sewer user surveys for nonresidential properties in MMSD area
Summary
Muskego adopted an ordinance (second reading) to require businesses and other nonresidential users within the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewer District area to complete an annual sewer survey; noncompliance carries fines.
The Muskego Common Council adopted Ordinance 1503 on second reading April 22, amending chapter 290 of the municipal code to require businesses and other nonresidential users in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewer District (MMSD) area to complete an annual survey that helps determine sewer capacity charges.
City staff said the rule affects nonresidential connections that use the municipal sewer system in MMSD territory; single-family homes do not have to complete the annual survey, though they pay the residential-equivalent charge. The ordinance is intended to improve survey compliance after staff repeatedly had trouble getting responses; staff cited examples of properties that failed to provide required information even when they were changing ownership.
Under the ordinance, municipal code enforcement would follow the city's usual process for ordinance violations. The council discussed a penalty plan; one alderman said the intended fine is $124 per day for unresolved noncompliance but that staff typically work through letters and follow-up before seeking municipal-court enforcement.
Council members asked whether churches or apartments were exempt; staff confirmed single-family homes are the only class that does not need to submit the annual survey, while apartments and other nonresidential properties are handled under the ordinance and charged based on their residential equivalency at time of record.
The ordinance passed on second reading with no recorded dissent.
