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HEALTH AND SANITATION CODE system of the City of Stockton and to repay principal 1. Users Without Source Meters. For users . and interest on any bonds heretofore or hereafter where, in the opinion of the City of Stockton, it is issued for the acquisition, construction, unnecessary or impractical to install meters, the reconstruction, completion or irrsprovement of the quantity of wastewater may be based upon an sanitary sewer system of the City of Stockton. estimate prepared by the City of Stockton and shall (Added by Ordinance 3590-C.S.—Effective Oct. 13, be considered as conclusive. This estimate shall be 1983) based upon a rational determination of the wastewater discharged and may consider such SEC. 7-092.6. EFFECTIVE DATE OF factors as the number of fixtures, seating capacity, }i.#3L;I .�, cyuivaic��y PM"Li dOD Of goods and Effective dates of user.charges shall be set by services or such other determinants of water use City Council Resolution. necessary to estimate the wastewater volume (Added by Ordinance 3690--C.S.--Effective Oct. discharged. 13, 1983) 2. Users With Source Meters. For users who, in the opinion of the City of Stockton, divert a SEC. 7-092.7. WASTEWATER VOLUME significant portion of their flow from a sanitary sewer, DETERMINATION: the user charges may be based upon an estimate of A. Meter Water Supply. User charges and fees the volume prepared by the user, provided the user shall be applied against the total amount of water obtains a Wastewater Discharge Permit and pays the used from all sources unless, in the opinion of the applicable user charges and fees. The estimate City of Stockton,significant por5ons of water received must include the method and calculations used to are not discharged to a sanitary sewer. The total determine the wastewater volume and may consider amount of water used from public and private such factors as the number of fixtures, seating sources will be determined by means of public capacity,population equivalents, production of goods meters or private meters installed and maintained at and services, or such other determinants of water file expense of the user and approved by the City of use necessary to estimate the wastewater volume Stockton. discharge. B. Metered Wastewater Volume and Metered (Added by Ordinance 3690-C.S.-- Effective Oct 13, Diversions. For purposes of determining other than 1983) flat rate charges as set forth by Council Resolution the volume of effluent discharged into the sanitary SEC.7-092.8. ES'>ABr!BSH iEMT OF BOD: sewer and sewer service charge for such use shall For the purposes of establishing the value of be measured by an effluent meter installed at the BOD for a commercial or industrial sewage,four(4) user's expense and approved by the Director. or more representative samples shall be taken at For users where, in the opinion of the City of reasonable intervals during the billing period. Those Stockton, a significant portion of the water received industrial -br-commercial establishments whose from any metered source does not flow into the wastes are found to fall continually within the same sanitary sewer because of the principal activity of the BOD limits will be checked only at the requ=est of the user or removal by other means, the user charges owner of said establishment or at the discretion of and fees will be applied against the volume of water the Director of the Municipal Utilities Department. discharged from such premises into the sanitary The average BOD value of the waste as determined sewer. Written notification and proof of the diversion by such samples shall apply for the entire billing of water must W provided by the user if the user is to period during which such samples are taken. avoid the application of the user charges and fees (Added by Ordinance 3690-C.S.— Effective Oct. 13, against the total amount of water used from all 1983) sources. The user shall install a meter of a type and at a location approved by the City of Stockton and at SEC. 7-092.9. METHOD OF ASSESSING the user's expense. Such meters may measure COMMERCIAL USER CHARGES: either the amount of sewage discharged or the There shall be different unit rates per one amount of water diverted. Such meters shall be hundred(100)cubic feet of metered water delivered tested for accuracy at the expense of the user when for user categories, as established from time to time deemed necessary by the Director. C. Estimated Wastewater Volume. i 7-44