Sanitary sewer charges for residential and commercial accounts are calculated based upon water consumed as registered by the water meter serving each consumer.
To qualify for sewer averaging, an account with sewer service must have had metered water service available throughout all four months of the previous November through February time period (the “designated winter months”). Metered water consumption for only the current occupant at a service address will be considered in the calculation of the average. The calculation will not include metered water consumption for any former occupants at the same service address.
Sewer averaging will be recalculated at the commencement of each fiscal year, starting with the billing for October consumption taking place on or about November 25 and continuing throughout the remainder of the fiscal year. An average of each qualifying account’s water consumption for the four designated winter months will be calculated and billed in accordance with the applicable sewer rate table currently in effect. If an account with metered water service does not have water consumption for any of the designated winter months, those months will be excluded from the averaging calculation. Once the average has been calculated, it will be used as a basis for billing the account each month for the entire fiscal year until a new average has been established.
An account with metered water service that does not qualify for sewer averaging will be billed for sewer service based on a default average water consumption of 5,000 gallons per month, billed in accordance with the applicable sewer rate table currently in effect. The account will continue to be billed in this manner until such time when an average can be established.