37-135 Utilization of water environmental charge revenues.

(a)    The City shall maintain financial records for the proper distribution of water environmental charge revenues.

(b)    The utilization of the water environmental charge revenues shall be as follows:

(1)    Operations, maintenance and replacement costs for advanced water treatment processes required to meet environmental regulations. These processes include used water recovery, corrosion control (lead and copper), granular activated carbon treatment, disinfectant byproducts reduction, well head treatment and/or down-hole modification, and other similar processes as deemed necessary by the Water Services Director.

(2)    Additional water quality programs required by the 1987 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act such as treatment plant laboratory analysis and monitoring.

(3)    Debt service, direct capital costs, and in lieu of property tax payments incurred for advanced water treatment facilities required because of environmental regulations. Such facilities are those listed in section 37-135(b)(1) above and other similar projects as deemed necessary by the Water Services Director as part of advanced water treatment facilities.

(4)    Administrative allocation of functions that support direct advanced water treatment operations. Administrative functions include department and division indirect costs, central service costs from other City departments, and computer billing implementation costs.

(Ord. No. G-3586, § 1; Ord. No. G-5444, § 3, adopted 10-21-2009, eff. 11-20-2009)