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ORDINANCE NO .~/5~.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 37-25 AND
37-26 OF CHAPTER 37 AND SECTION 2g-113 OF
CHAPTER 2g OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE
(1g6~+), AS AMENDED, BY REVISING CERTAIN RATES
AND CHARGES, PROVIDING THAT ALL WATER METERS
CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO THE CITY'S WATER SYSTEM
ON AND AFTER THE EFFEC`.PIVE DATE HEREOF SHALL
BE THE PROPERTY OF THF:, CITY, REQUIRING PER-
MITS TO DISCHARGE TRANSPORTED INDUSTRIAL
WASTES INTO THE FORT WORTH SANITARY SEWERAGE
SYSTEM, OR INTO ANY SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEM
TRIBUTARY TO THE FORT WORTH SANITARY SEWERAGE
SYSTEM, AUTHORIZING ,THE DIRECTOR OF THE FORT
WORTH WATER DEPARTMENT TO PROMULGATE REGULA-
TIONS PERTAINING TO SUCH PERMITTING, AS
NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE FORT WORTH SANITARY
SEWERAGE SYSTEM, MAKINCx THIS ORDINANCE CUMU-
LATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES, REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH
CITY CODE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROV=CDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE, PROVIDING A PENALTY, AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT ~-~~~.......~
WORTH, TEXAS
SECTION 1 /'
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That Section 37-25, Water and Sewer Rates Within the City,
of Chapter 37 of the Fort Worth City Code (1g6~), as amended, be
and the same is hereby amended and, after having been so amended,
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shall hereafter read and be as follows
"Sec 37-25 Water and Sewer rates within the city
"(a) Definitions
"The residential customer class shall consist of
those customers which have rio more than two (2) living
units served by a single water meter
"The industrial customer class shall consist of
those customers whose sewage contains wastewater from a
product manufactured, processed or fabricated by the
customer
"The monitored group class shall consist of those
customers determined by the director of the waterworks
department to be producers of wastewater that is, in
his judgment, abnormal sewage
"The commercial customer class shall consist of
those customers which have three (3) or more living
units served by a single water meter, or which have one
or more businesses served by a single water meter
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"A living unit is defined as a residential unit
providing complete, independent, living facilities for
one family, including permanent provisions for living,
sleeping, cooking, eating and sanitation
"Abnormal sewage The term 'abnormal sewage' shall
mean any sewage having a uspended solids or B 0 D
content which is, in the judgment of the director of
the waterworks department, ignificantly in excess of,
or below, that found in normal sewage, but is otherwise
acceptable into the City of Fort Worth Sanitary
Sewerage System
"Normal sewage By the term 'normal sewage' 'is
meant sewage which, when analyzed, shows by weight a
daily average of not more than two hundred sixty (260)
mg/1 of suspended solids and not more than one hundred
seventy (170) mg/1 of B 0 I) and which is otherwise
acceptable into the Fort Worth Sanitary Sewerage
System
"B 0 D (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) By
the term 'B 0 D ' is meant the quantity of oxygen
utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter
under standard laboratory procedure as specified in
'Standard Methods' in five (5) days at twenty (20)
degrees centigrade expressed as parts per million by
weight (milligrams per litre)
"Standard Methods By the term 'Standard Methods'
is meant the latest edition of 'Standard Methods for
the Examination of Water and Wastewater' prepared and
published jointly by the American Public Health
Association, American Waterworks Association and the
Water Pollution Control Federation
"Suspended solids By the term 'suspended solids'
is meant solids that either :gloat on the surface of, or
in suspension in, water sewage or other liquid and
which are removable by laboratory filtering
"(b) The following schedule of rates per month, or
fraction thereof, shall be t;he charges to all persons,
as herein defined, for furnishing water to water
consumers located within the city
RATE FOR WATER SERVICE
Monthly Service Charge for Water
A monthly service charge in the following amount shall
be charged based on the size of the meter serving the
customer
Meter Size Amount
Inches ( $ )
5/8 x 3/~+ 1 25
1 2 00
1-1/2 3 25
2 1} 5 0
~+ 16 5 0
6 32 50
8 48 00
l0 63 50
12 73 00
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"The monthly volume charge for water service is as
follows
Cubic Feet
Rate
First 2,000 or less cubic feet of water used
per month, per 100 cubic feet $0 59
For the next 48,000 cubic feet of water used
per month, per 100 cubic feet 0 41
For the next 75,000 cubic feet of water used
per month, per 100 cubic feet 0 38
For the next 125,000 cubic feet of water used
per month, per 100 cubic feet 0 34
For all in excess of 250,000 cubic feet of
water used per month, per 100 cubic feet 0 30
"The service charges set out in the foregoing
schedule are based upon the amount of water used as
measured by meters
"(c) The following schedule of rates per month or
fraction thereof shall be the basis for determining
charges to all customers for rendering sanitary sewer-
age service, where the sewage produced by such customer
is a normal strength wastewater (two hundred ten (210)
mg/1 B 0 D and two hundred forty (240) mg/1 suspended
solids) and where such customer is located within the
city
RATES FOR SEWERAGE SERVICE ONLY
"(1) A monthly service charge shall be charged to
all customers in the amount of two dollars and
fifty cents ($2 50)
"(2) A monthly volume charge shall also be charged
to all customers in the amount of three hundred
seventy-two thousandths of a cent ($0 372) per one
hundred (100) cubic feet of water used, or waste-
water produced, as more specifically set forth
hereinafter
"The monthly volume charges for residential class
customers will be based on the individual customer's
average monthly water use during the preceding winter
quarter months of December, January and February, but
in no event shall the volume used to compute this
monthly charge exceed one thousand five hundred (1,500)
cubic feet The volumes used to compute these charges
are based on the amount of water used by the residen-
tial class customer as measured by a meter Where no
preceding winter quarter average is available from
records, the director shall estimate a volume to be
used for this monthly volume charge, such estimated
volume not to exceed one thousand five hundred (1,500)
cubic feet
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"The monthly charges to commercial and industrial
class customers will be based on total water use as
measured by appropriate meters, with the provision that
if a customer can show, to the satisfaction of the
director of the waterworks department, that a signifi-
cant portion of the metered water usage does not enter
the sanitary sewers, the customer will be charged for
only that volume entering the sewers, as determined by
a method approved by the director
"(d) The director of the waterworks department
shall establish a monitored group class, consisting of
those customers whose wastewater strength is, in his
judgment, abnormally high or low, and charges to
customers in this class shall be computed in accord
with the. following five-part rate schedule
MONITORED GROUP
Customer monthly service charge $2 50
Volume charge, per 100 cubic feet 0 2~1
B 0 D strength charge, per pound 0 0572
of B 0 D
Suspended solids strength charge, per 0 037~-
pound of suspended solids
Monitoring charge Total cost to city
"The monitoring charge shall consist of all cost
for personnel, material, and equipment used to collect
and analyze samples from the customer wastewater to de-
termine the strength of the wastewater produced
"This schedule shall replace all other charges
previously made for industrial waste strength
"(e) All customers connected to the sanitary sew-
erage system who have a source of water supply that is
in addition to, or in lieu of, the City of Fort Worth
water supply must have a, meter approved and tested by
the Fort Worth Waterworks Department on that source of
water supply and the volume charge as set forth
hereinbefore shall be based on the sum of the volumes
delivered by all sources of supply Such method of
volume determination wi:il not be applicable if the
customer installs a meter approved by the Fort Worth
Waterworks Department on the wastewater produced by the
customer before it enters the city sanitary sewer
"(f) Charges paid by municipal departments for
water and sewerage services shall be paid for at the
rates in effect
"(g) The following schedule of rates per month
shall apply for furnishing raw water to customers
within the city
RAW WATER RATES
First 1,000,000 gallons, per 1,000 gallons $0 16
All over 1,000,000 gallons, per 1,000 gallons 0 13
"(h) Industrial cost recovery
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"(1) In providing a waste treatment system
which includes the treatment of industrial wastes,
either independently or in conjunction with other
wastes, the Fort Worth Water Department shall have
the authority to collect from such industrial
users all or any part of the construction costs of
such waste treatment system reasonably attributed
to such industrial wastes The apportionment of
such costs shall be equitable as among industrial
users, and such costs may be collected by assess-
ment, connection fee, periodic charges, or in
other manners or combinations thereof as in the
judgment of the director of the Fort Worth Water
Department is equitable and will assure such
industrial cost recovery
"(2) An industrial user is any nongovern-
mental user of the City of Fort Worth's waste
treatment system, identified in the Standard
Industrial Classification Manual, 1972, Office of
Management and Budget, as amended and supple-
mented, under the following divisions
Division A - Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing,
Division B - Mining,
Division D - Manufacturing,
Division E - Transportation, Communications,
Electric, Gas and Sanitary Services,
Division I - Services
"Any industrial user may be excluded if it is
determined that it will introduce primarily segre-
gated domestic wastes or wastes from sanitary
conveniences
"(3) The annual. amount to be recovered from
each industrial user shall be predicated on the
following formula
~A ~B ~C
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
Annual payment ($/year) where
Eligible federal grant allocable to flow (Q)
in dollars
Eligible federal grant allocable to B 0 D ,
in dollars
Eligible federal grant allocable to S S , in
dollars
Total design flow (Q), in Cef/day
Total design B O D , in lbs/day
Total design S S in lbs/day
Industrial usez•s' flow discharge to system,
in CCf/day
Industrial users' B 0 D
in lbs/day
discharge to system,
Industrial users' S S
in lbs/day
discharge to system,
Amortization period = 30 years
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"(~) For the purpose of computing the indus-
trial users' annual payment, a cost recovery
period of thirty (30) years is hereby established
"(5) The industrial user shall be billed
monthly on the basis of his computed annual
industrial cost recovery payment divided by twelve
(12)
"(6) Funds collected under industrial cost
recovery shall be deposited into a special fund
entitled 'Industrial Cost Recovery Fund,' which is
hereby established On an annual basis fifty (50)
per cent of the amounts recovered, together with
interest earned thereon, shall be returned to the
U S Treasury Of the fifty (50) per cent remain-
ing together with interest earned thereon, eighty
(80) per cent shall be used for eligible costs for
reconstruction and expansion pursuant to ~0 CFR
35 928-2(b), and twenty (20) per cent used as the
City of Fort Worth sees fit
"(7) Pending use, retained amounts shall be
invested in (1) obligations of the U S govern-
ment, or (2) obligations guaranteed as to princi-
pal and interest by the U S government or any
agency thereof, or (3) shall be deposited in
accounts fully col]_ateralized by obligations of
the U S government or by obligations fully guar-
anteed as to principal and interest by the U S
government or any agency thereof
"(8) Industrial users shall be reviewed
annually by the Fort Worth Water Department for
quantity and strength of waste, and the industrial
cost recovery adjusted accordingly
"(9) The Fort Worth Water Department shall
maintain records and submit reports and financial
statements to the Environmental Protection Agency
in conformance with the latest regulations
"(10) This subsection shall be amended, as
necessary, to comply with federal regulations
SECTION 2
That Section 37-26, Connection Charge, of Chapter 37 of the
Fort Worth City Code (1g6~+) as amended, be and the same is
hereby amended and, after having been so amended, shall hereafter
read and be as follows
"Section 37-26 Connection Charge
"(a) A minimum charge per month, or fraction
thereof, shall be made for each connection with the
water mains or sewer mains of the city waterworks This
charge shall be based on the size of the meter through
which water is furnished regardless of source, and
shall be as follows
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SCI3LDULE _A
Meter Size
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5/8 x 3/~-
1
T-1/2
3
4
6
8
to
12
Water_Ser~rise_9nl~r
Cubic Feet Monthly
_A11~awed__ I~tixiir~ur~_Ck~arge
loo $ 1 80
250 3 50
500 6 20
800 g 20
1,525 1g o0
2 , x-15 30 00
~+, 855 56 00
10,100 93 00
12,800 120 00
21,075 163 00
SC~iEDULE _B
Water Meter
Size_~lraches~
5/8 x 3/~
1
1-1/2
2
4
6
8
10
12
Sewer_Seruice_Oxily
Cubic Feet
_A1lowesl__
Monthly
IY[ixiimum_Charge
loo $ 2 85
250 3 45
500 ~+ 35
800 5 45
1,505 8 00
2,550 12 00
x-,970 21 00
10,080 40 00
1,920 58 00
21 , 810 8~+ 00
"The amount of water. allowed for water and sewer-
age for the respective size of the meter is shown
above Charges for water furnished through meters shall
be made at rates in effect, and each meter shall be
read and billed separately
"(1) Fire line meters The monthly charges for
connections to unmetered, automatic sprinkler system,
or other fire lines installed and used for fire
protection shall be as follows
Size _of _Ser~zice _Cexixiectioxi ~[ont~l3z_Charge
~-inch $ 5 ~.0
6-inch 8 10
8-inch 10 80
10-inch 18 00
"Charges for sizes larger than 10-inch will be
determined by the Director of the Fort Worth Waterworks
Department When it is determined that water has been
or is being used through or from an unmetered automatic
sprinkler system for purposes other than for fire
fighting, the consumer shall pay the full cost of a
meter installation on the fire line
"All fire protection. systems used exclusively for
fire fighting purposes acid provided with outlets other
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than standard closed sprinkler heads shall be provided
with detector-type check valves at customer's cost
before connection with the water mains of the city In
case it is determined that water is used through such
detector check valves fo:r purposes other than for fire
fighting, the detector check valve installation shall
be replaced with a standard meter with the consumer
paying the full cost of the meter installation
"(2) Meter sizes Only one (1) five-eighths- (5/8)
inch by three-fourths- (3/4) inch meter shall be
attached to and served by a three-fourths- (3/4) inch
tap No more than two (2) fire-eighths- (5/8) inch by
three-fourths- (3/4) inch or one (1) one- (1) inch
meter shall be attached to and served by a one- (1)
inch tap Not more than one (1) one and one-half-
(1-1/2) inch or three (3) five-eighths- (5/8) inch by
three-fourths- (3/4) inch or three (3) one- (1) inch
meters shall be attached to and served by a one and
one-half- (1-1/2 ) inch tap Not more than one ( 1) two-
(2) inch, four (~+) one- (1) inch or six (6)
five-eighths- (5/8) inch by three-fourths- (3/4) inch
meters shall be attached to and served by a two- (2)
inch tap
"(3) Seasonal meters Customers using a separate
water meter for one or more seasonal purposes (such as
lawn watering but not being limited thereto) shall pay
the minimum monthly charge prescribed herein for such
meter throughout the year, whether such service is
active or not If such ervice is disconnected at the
request of the customer and the customer requests that
the service be reconnected within the next twelve (12)
months, a reconnection cYiarge shall be paid equivalent
to the monthly minimum charge times the number of
months that such service has been disconnected
"b) Reserved
"(c) A charge shall. be made by the city Water
Department for each tap made to a water main for a
connection, which charge shall be determined by the
size of the connection and the character of the surface
of the street in which the connection is to be located
From the following schedule shall be detemined the
charge for making taps, and the charge shall be payable
in advance
INSTALLATION CHARGE, WATER
Unimproved Penetration
_Size_'Iap_ __Street__ __Street___
Paved
Street
(Concrete,
H M A C
or Flexible
___~ase~___
3/4 inch $150 00 $275 00 $325 00
1 inch 225 00 350 00 400 00
1-1/2 inch 350 00 475 00 550 00
2 inch 450 00 475 00 650 00
For each 3/4-inch branch, ad d $25 00
For each 1-inch branch, add $35 00
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"Any water connection larger than two (2) inches
shall be made under contract between the customer and
the city Total material and installation costs of the
tap and meter or meters, including multiple meter
settings instead of a three- (3) inch or larger meter
setting, shall be paid by the customer Payment shall
be based on the cost estimated by the Water Department,
acting by and through the Director of the Water
Department Developers will pay the full cost of all
water service taps constructed by contract in new
developments All water meters connected directly to
the City's water system on and after the effective date
hereof shall be the property of the City
"That portion of the building sewer known as the
sewer tap and that portion known as the sewer service
lateral shall be constructed only by city forces or by
contractor employed or approved by the city Such
construction shall be in accordance with the general
specifications of the Fort Worth Water Department The
plumber or other person seeking to connect to a city
sanitary sewer shall apply .for a sewer tap and/or sewer
service lateral at the office of the Water Department
The plumber shall obtain a written description or
sketch from the office of the Water Department showing
the approximate location of the sanitary sewer serving
the property, and the Water Department, upon applica-
tion, shall furnish such written description or sketch
to the plumber and to the plumbing inspector Charges
for construction of a sewer tap and/or service lateral
shall be due and payable when the application is made
"The charges for a sewer tap and/or sewer service
lateral of the size eight (8) inches or less, to be
installed by city forces, shall be as follows
SEWER TAP AND/OR SEWER SERVICE LATERAL
Location and
Typ~_of~Stxeet
Tap in street ~-inch 6-inch 8-inch
Dirt $325 00 $x+50 00 $x+75 00
Penetration X00 00 525 00 575 00
Paved (Concrete,
H M A C or
flexible base) X75 00 600 00 655 00
Tap in alley 225 00 2~+5 00 300 00
Tap in easement 160 00 180 00 200 00
"Charges for street repair to permanent-type pav=
ing including concrete, hot mix or flexible base and
penetration type paving are included in the schedules
in this paragraph for tYie therein described water tap
and sewer tap and/or sewer service lateral
"Charges for all taps of any size installed by a
contractor employed or approved by the city, and
charges for sewer taps exceeding eight (8) inches
installed by city forces, shall be the installation
cost of materials, equipment and labor Street and
alley repair charges shall be paid in accordance with
rates established by the director of the Department of
Public Works
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"If the sewer tap a,nd/or sewer service lateral is
installed by a contractor employed or approved by the
city, the charges shall be the actual cost of construc-
tion as established by the bid item in the construction
contract
"The City maintains in part of the downtown area a
separate sanitary sewer system to serve the basements
of the buildings located in that area The separate
system is referred to as the deep sewer The construc-
tion of the sewer tap and/or the sewer service lateral
shall be done by city forces, provided that where the
sewer service lateral can be constructed without
cutting the surface of the public street, the plumber
or person holding the permit may be permitted by the
Plumbing Inspector to construct the sewer service
lateral in accordance with requirements of the Fort
Worth Plumbing Code and all other applicable ordinances
of the City, subject to the approval of the Plumbing
Inspector Any work done by city forces in making a
deep sewer connection shall be paid for by the plumber
or other person holding a plumbing permit relating to
such deep sewer connection
"The above charges shall be in addition to the
applicable fee or fees provided for in the Fort Worth
Plumbing Code No plumbing permit for work which
involves the constructior.~ of the sewer tap and/or sewer
service lateral shall be issued until the charges have
been paid and receipt evidencing such payment is
presented to the person issuing the plumbing permit
"(d) In cases where the City Council has ordered
an unimproved street to be paved and such unimproved
street contains existing water or sewer mains but no
sanitary sewer and water taps have been extended to one
or more of the abutting lots, in order to prevent
future paving cuts, the city waterworks department is
authorized to install or cause to be installed a
sanitary sewer tap or water tap to connect the water or
sewer mains to each such lot
"(e) The city water works department is authorized
to make a charge according to the schedule set out in
Paragraph (c) hereof against the owner of each abutting
lot served by each water tap constructed under
Paragraph (d)
"(f) The city waterworks department is authorized
to make a charge according to the schedule set out in
Paragraph (c) hereof against the owner of each abutting
lot served by each. sewer tap and/or sewer service
lateral constructed under Paragraph (d)
"For the purpose of this section, a sanitary sewer
tap is hereby defined as a connection to a public
sanitary sewer located irl a public street and extended
to a point approximately three (3) feet behind the curb
line adjacent to the property served thereby
"(g) If the applica~>le charges for water or sani-
tary sewer taps installed hereunder are not paid prior
to the date such street is improved by paving, an
additional thirty dollars ($30 00) shall be charged for
each water or sanitary sewer tap These charges shall
be payable at the time the property is connected to the
water or sewer line of the city
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"(h) In instances where fire protection is not a
factor, good engineering practices permit, and there is
written authorization from the director of the city
waterworks department, multiple small meter settings
may be made at a single location instead of a three-
(3) inch or larger meter at such location, but such
multiple small meter settings shall be made entirely at
the customer's cost The customer's cost shall include
tap installation, meters, meter fittings and meter
boxes The city shall retain ownership of all of such
facilities and equipment "
SECTION 3
That Section 29-113, "Regulations governing industrial
wastes", of Article XII, Chapter 29 of the Code of the City of
Fort Worth, Texas (1g6~+), as amended, be and the same is hereby
amended so that hereafter same shall be and read as follows
"Section 29-113, Regulations governing industrial
wastes
"(1) DEFINITIONS When used in this section, these
terms shall be defined as follows
"Abnormal Sewage TYie term 'abnormal sewage' shall
mean any industrial wastewater having a suspended
solids or B 0 D content which is, in the judgment
of the Director, significantly in excess of, or
below, that found i_n normal sewage, but which is
otherwise acceptable into a public sewer under the
terms of this code
"B 0 D (denoting biochemical oxygen demand) By
the term 'B 0 D (denoting biochemical oxygen
demand)' is meant the quantity of oxygen utilized
in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter
under standard laboratory procedure as specified
in 'Standard Method ' in five days at twenty (20)
degrees Centigrade expressed as parts per million
by weight (milligrams per litre)
"Cooling water By the term 'cooling water' is
meant the water discharged from any system of
condensation such a air conditioning, cooling or
refrigeration Cooling water shall not be dis-
charged into any public storm drain or watercourse
unless it is unpolluted and below one hundred
fifty (150) degrees Fahrenheit
"Director By the term 'director' is meant the
Director of the Fort Worth Water Works Department,
or his authorized representative
"Garbage By the term 'garbage' is meant solid
waste from domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking or dispensing of food or from the han-
dling, storage and sale of produce
"Industrial Waste By the term 'industrial waste'
is meant any and a:11 liquid or waterborne waste
from industrial or commercial processes and does
not include domestic sewage
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"Industrial waste permit By the term 'industrial
waste permit' is meant a permit to deposit or dis-
charge industrial waste into any sanitary sewer in
the city
"Normal sewage By the term 'normal sewage' is
meant sewage which, when analyzed, shows by weight
a daily average of not more than 260 mg/1 of
suspended solids and not more than 170 mg/1 of
B 0 D and which is otherwise acceptable into a
public sewer under the terms of this Code
"Owner or occupant By the term 'owner or occu-
pant' is meant the person, firm or public or
private corporation, using the lot, parcel of
land, building or premises connected to and dis-
charging sewage, industrial wastewater or liquid,
into the sanitary sewage system of the city, and
who pays, or is legally responsible for the
payment of, water rates or charges made against
the said lot, parcel of land, building or prem-
ises, if connected to the water distribution
system of the City of Fort Worth, or who would pay
or be legally responsible for such payment if so
connected
"Person By the term 'person' is meant any indi-
vidual, business entity, partnership, corporation,
governmental agency or political subdivision
"pH By the term 'pH' is meant the logarithm of
the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions, in
grams per litre of solution, measured and calcu-
lated in accordance with 'Standard Methods'
"Polluted water or waste By the term 'polluted
water or waste' is meant any water or liquid waste
containing any of the following Phenols or other
substances to an extent imparting taste and odor
in receiving waters, toxic or poisonous substances
in suspension, colloidal state or solution,
noxious or odorous gases, more than ten thousand
(10,000) parts per million, by weight, of dis-
solved solids, of which more than twenty-five
hundred (2500) parts per million are chloride,
more than ten (10) parts per million each of
suspended solids and/or B 0 D , color exceeding
fifty (50) parts per million, or having a pH value
of less than 5 5 or more than 10 0, and/or any
water or waste not approved for discharge into a
stream or waterway by the appropriate state auth-
ority
"Public sewer By the term 'public sewer' is meant
any publicly owned sanitary sewer, storm drain or
watercourse
"Properly shredded garbage By the term 'properly
shredded garbage' is meant garbage that has been
shredded to such a degree that all particles will
be carried freely under the flow conditions nor-
mally prevailing in public sewers, with no par-
ticle greater than one-half (1/2) inch in any
dimension
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"Sanitary sewer By the term 'sanitary sewer' is
meant a publicly owned pipe or conduit designed to
collect and transport industrial waste and domes-
tic sewage
"Sewage treatment plant By the term 'sewage
treatment plant' is meant any arrangement of
devices or structures used for treating sewage
"Abnormal sewage permit By the term 'abnormal
sewage permit' is meant a permit approved by and
received from the Director permitting the dis-
charge or deposit of abnormal sewage into a
sanitary sewer
"Standard Methods By the term 'Standard Methods'
is meant 'Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater' prepared and published
jointly by the American Public Health Association,
American Waterworks Association and the Water
Pollution Control Federation, as may be amended
from time to time
"Suspended solids By the term 'suspended solids'
is deant solids that either float on the surface
of, or in suspension in, water, sewage or other
liquid and which are removable by laboratory
filtering
"Unpolluted water or waste By the term 'unpol-
luted water or waste' is meant any water or liquid
waste containing none of the following Phenols or
other substances to an extent imparting taste and
odor in receiving waters, toxic or poisonous
substances in suspension colloidal state or solu-
tion, noxious or odorous gases, not more than ten
thousand (10,000) parts per million, by weight, of
dissolved solids, of which not more than
twenty-five hundred (2500) parts per million are
chloride, not more than ten (10) parts per million
each of suspended solids and. B 0 D color not
exceeding fifty (50) parts per million, nor a pH
value of less than 5 5 nor higher than 10 0,
and/or any water or waste approved for discharge
into a stream or waterway by the appropriate state
authority
"Wastewater By the term 'wastewater' is meant
water that has been used by and discharged from an
industry, commercial enterprise, household or
other water consumer, which water may be either
polluted or unpolluted
"(2) CERTAIN WASTE PROHIBITED IN PUBLIC SEWERS
"(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to
discharge or cause to be discharged any polluted
water or corrosive waste into any storm drain or
watercourse within the city
"(b) No person shall discharge or cause to be
discharged any storm water, ground water, roof
runoff, subsurface drainage or drainage from down-
spouts, yard drains, yard fountains and ponds, or
a
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lawn sprays into any sanitary sewer, except as
provided by the City Code Water .from swimming
pools, unpolluted industrial water, such as water
drains, blow-off pipes, or cooling water from
various equipment shall not be discharged into
sanitary sewers if a closed storm sewer is avail-
able If a closed storm sewer is not available,
such water may be discharged into the sanitary
sewer by indirect connection whereby such dis-
charge is cooled, if required, and flows into the
sanitary sewer at a rate not in excess of five (5)
gallons per minute, provided that the waste does
not contain materials or substances in suspension
or solution in violation of the limits prescribed
by this Code
"(c) No person shall discharge or cause to be
discharged into any public sewer any of the
following described substances, materials, waters
or waste
"1) Any liquid or vapor having a tem-
perature higher than one hundred fifty (150)
degrees Fahrenheit [(65) degrees Centigrade]
"2) Any water or waste which contains
wax, grease or oil, plastic or other sub-
stance that will solidify or become discern-
ibly viscous at temperatures between
thirty-two (32) degrees to one hundred fifty
(150) degrees Fahrenheit
"3) Flammable or explosive liquid,
solid or gas, such as gasoline, kerosene,
benzene, naptha, etc
"~) Solid or viscous substances in
quantities capable of causing obstruction in
the flow in sewers or other interference with
proper operation of the sewage works, such
as, but not limited to, ashes, cinders, sand,
mud, straw, shavings, metal, glass, rags,
feathers, tar, plastics, wood, whole blood,
paunch manure, hair and fleshlings, entrails,
lime slurry, lime residues, slops, chemical
residues, paint residues, or bulk solids
"5) Any garbage that has not been prop-
erly comminuted or shredded If properly
comminuted or shredded, then it may be
accepted if suitably pretreated
"6) Any noxious or malodorous sub-
stances which can form a gas which, either
singly or by interaction with other wastes,
is capable of causing objectionable odors or
hazards to life or form solids in concentra-
tion exceeding limits established in this
ordinance, or creates any other condition
deleterious to structures or treatment pro-
cesses, or requires unusual provisions,
attentions or expense to handle such mate-
rial
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"(d) No person shall discharge or cause to be
discharged into any public sewer any of the
following in excess of the concentrations pre-
scribed herein
"1) Free or emulsified oil and grease
exceeding one hundred (100) parts per million
[eight hundred thirty-four (834) pounds per
million gallons] of either or both, or com-
binations of, free or emulsified oil and
grease
"2) Acids or alkalies which attack or
corrode sewers or sewage disposal structures
or have a pH value lower than 5 5 or higher
than 10 0
"3) Salts of a heavy metal in solution
or suspension in concentrations exceeding the
following
Chromium as Cr - 5 0 milligrams per
liter
Copper as Cu - 1 0 milligrams per liter
Zinc as Zn - 5 0 milligrams per liter
Nickel as Ni - 1 0 milligrams per liter
Cadmium - 0 02 milligrams per liter
Arsenic - 0 05 milligrams per liter
Barium - 5 0 milligrams per liter
Boron - 1 0 milligrams per liter
Lead - 0 1 milligrams per liter
Manganese - 1 0 milligrams per liter
Mercury - 0 005 milligrams per liter
Selenium - 0 02 milligrams per liter
Silver - 0 1 milligrams per liter
or elements which will damage collection
facilities or are detrimental to treatment
processes
"4) Cyanide or cyanogen compounds in
excess of 2 0 parts per million by weight as
CN
"5) Any water or waste that contains
more than ten (10) parts per million of the
following gases Hydrogen sulfide, sulphur
dioxide or nitrous oxide
"6) Radioactive materials in the
absence of a specific permit issued by the
Director for the discharge of such waste
"(3) SPECIAL PROCEDURES RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL
WASTE
"(a) Permits It shall be unlawful for any
person to deposit or discharge industrial waste
into any sanitary sewer in the city without having
first obtained an industrial waste permit from the
City of Fort Worth and having complied with all of
the applicable provisions hereof Any person de-
siring to deposit or discharge, or who is now
depositing or discharging industrial waste into
any sanitary sewer in the city shall make applica-
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tion to the Chief Plumbing Inspector for a permit
Application forms will be furnished by the Chief
.Plumbing Inspector on request The Chief Plumbing
Inspector shall refer all such applications to the
Director for his approval or disapproval The
Director shall approve such applications and grant
an industrial waste permit only when the evidence
submitted by the applicant demonstrates that the
waste or wastewater to be deposited by the appli-
cant in the sanitary sewer will comply with all
the regulations of this Code and that the quantity
of waste or wastewater will not exceed the avail-
able capacity of the City sanitary sewer facility
to which it will be connected
"Permits to discharge industrial waste shall
likewise be required for all transporters of
industrial waste desiring to discharge such trans-
ported industrial wastes into the Fort Worth
sanitary sewerage system, or into any sanitary
sewerage system tributary to the Fort Worth sani-
tary sewerage system Applications for such per-
mits shall be filed directly with the Director,
and the Director shall promulgate regulations
pertaining to the permitting of all transporters
of industrial waste desiring to discharge such
transported industrial wastes into the Fort Worth
Sanitary Sewerage System, or its tributaries, as
necessary to adequately protect the Fort Worth
sanitary sewerage system and its operations from
injurious effects resulting from the acceptance
into that system of the transported industrial
wastes
"(b) Structures required Any person dis-
charging industrial waste into a sanitary sewer in
the city shall construct a suitable control man-
hole, downstream from any treatment or storage
tanks or other approved works utilized by such
person for pretreatment, such control manhole to
be for the purpose of facilitating observations,
measurements and sampling of all waste created and
discharged by such person The control manhole
shall be constructed at a location and in a manner
approved by the Director The control manhole
shall be constructed and installed at the expense
of the person discharging the waste, and it shall
be maintained at the expense of such person at all
times in a safe, acceptable and proper operating
condition
"(c) Disconnection If any person, depositing
or discharging industrial waste into the sanitary
sewer fails to secure an industrial waste permit
within the time prescribed herein or if any person
allows or causes waste of unacceptable quality
under the requirements of this section of the Code
to be discharged into any sanitary sewer in the
city, the Director is authorized, if such person
is using city water, to disconnect such person's
service line from the city water system and/or the
city sanitary sewer system and the same shall only
be reconnected at the owner's expense If such
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person does not use city water, the Director is
authorized to disconnect such person's service
line from the city's sanitary sewer system and the
same shall only be reconnected at the owner's
expense The Director shall notify the occupant or
user of the premises where the waste is generated
twenty-four (2~) hours before disconnecting the
service line No sanitary sewer connection or
water connection disconnected hereunder shall be
reconnected until the condition causing the dis-
connection has been corrected
"(d) Inspection The inspectors, agents or
representatives of the City of Fort Worth charged
with the enforcement of this section of the Code
shall be deemed to be performing a governmental
function for the benefit of the general public and
neither the City of Fort Worth, the Director nor
the individual inspector, agent or representative
shall ever be held liable for any loss or damage,
whether real or asserted, caused or alleged to
have been caused as a result of the performance of
such governmental function The owners or occu-
pants of premises where industrial waste is
created or discharged into the sanitary sewer
shall allow the Director, his inspectors, agents
or representatives free access at all reasonable
times to all parts of such premises for the
purpose of inspection or sampling or the perform-
ance of any of their duties hereunder, and the
failure or refusal of such owners or occupants to
comply with this provision shall be grounds for
the disconnection of water and/or sewer service
"(e) Measurement of flow The volume of flow
used in computing abnormal sewage surcharges shall
be based upon metered water consumption as shown
in the records of meter readings maintained by the
Fort Worth Water Department In the event that a
person discharging waste into the city's sanitary
sewer system produces evidence to the Director
demonstrating that a substantial portion of the
total amount of water used for all purposes does
not reach the city's sewer system, an estimated
percentage of total water consumption to be used
in computing charges may be established by the
Director
"Any person discharging industrial waste into
the sanitary sewers of the city who procures any
part or all of his water supply from sources other
than the Fort Worth Water Department, all or part
of which is discharged into the sanitary sewer,
shall install and maintain at his expense water
meters of the type approved by the Director for
the purpose of determining the proper volume of
flow to be used in computing sewer service
charges Such meters shall be read monthly and
tested for accuracy when deemed necessary by the
Director Where it can be shown to the satisfac-
tion of the Director that a substantial portion of
the water as measured by the aforesaid meter, or
meters, does not enter the sanitary sewer system
of the city, then the Director may require or
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permit the installation of additional meters at
the owner's expense in such manner as to measure
the quantity of water actually entering the said
sanitary sewerage system from the lot, parcel of
land, building or premises of such owner or
occupant, and the quantity of water used to
determine the sewer service charge may be the
quantity of water actually entering the sewerage
system as so determined, if the Director so
elects
"If the Director finds that it is not practi-
cable to measure the quantity or quality of waste
by the aforesaid meters or monitoring devices, he
shall determine the quantity or quality of the
waste in any manner or method he may find practi-
cable in order to arrive at the percentage of
water entering the sanitary sewerage system of the
city and/or the quality of the sewerage to be used
to determine the sewer service charge
"(f) Determining the character and concentra-
tion of waste The industrial waste discharged or
deposited into the sanitary sewers shall be sub-
ject to periodic inspection and sampling as often
as may be deemed necessary by the Director
Samples shall be collected in such manner as to be
representative of the character and concentration
of the waste under operational conditions The
laboratory methods used in the examination of said
waste shall be those set forth in the Standard
Methods The determination of the character and
concentration of industrial waste shall be made by
the Director at such times and on such schedules
as may be established by the Director Should an
owner or occupant discharging industrial waste to
the sanitary sewers desire a determination of the
quality of such industrial waste be made at some
time other than that scheduled by the Director,
such special determination may be made by the
Director at the expense of the owner or occupant
discharging the waste
"(~) PRETREATMENT
"(a) Pretreatment Owners or occupants, or
any other person, generating waste prohibited from
discharge into public sewers by the foregoing
shall pretreat or otherwise dispose of such pro-
hibited waste so as to make the waste discharged
to the public sewer acceptable under the standards
established in this chapter
"(b) Plan, specifications It shall be the
responsibility of any person, owner or occupant
discharging waste into the sanitary sewerage sys-
tem of the city to furnish the Director with
drawings or plans and specifications in such
detail as he may require to determine if the
pretreatment structure planned by such person, or
in use by such person, is suitable for the purpose
intended However, the approval of such plans by
the Director will in no way relieve such person of
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the responsibility for modifying the structure,
once constructed, as necessary to produce an
effluent acceptable to the Director under the
terms of this section " M
SECTION ~
That this ordinance shall repeal every prior ordinance and
provision of the Fort Worth City Code in conflict herewith but
only insofar as any portion of such prior ordinance or provision
shall be in conflict, and as to all other ordinances or
provisions of the Fort Worth City Code not in direct conflict
herewith, this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative
SECTION 5
That all rights or remedies of the City of Fort Worth,
Texas, are expressly saved as to any and all violations of
Chapter 37 or Chapter 29 or of any amendments thereto, of the
Fort Worth City Code (1g6~+), as amended, which have accrued at
the time of the effective date of this ordinance, and as to such
accrued violations, the Court shall have all of the powers that
existed prior to the effective date of this ordinance
SECTION 6
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and
phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase,
clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be
declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality .shall
not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would
have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation
in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph or section
SECTION 7
That the violation of any provision of this ordinance or of
the Fort Worth City Code relating to water and sewer service
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shall be deemed an offense and punishable by a fine not exceeding
Two Hundred Dollars ($200), and each violation hereof, and each
day on which there is a failure to comply with the terms of this
ordinance shall be and is hereby declared to be a distinct and
separate offense and punishable as such
SECTION 8
That the City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby
directed to publish the caption, penalty clause and effective
date of this ordinance for five ( 5 ) days in the official news-
paper of the City of Fort Worth, as authorized by Article 1176b-1
Revised Civil Statutes of Texas
SECTION 9
That the City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby
directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the
caption and penalty clause of same in the minutes of the City
Council of Fort Worth and by filing the ordinance in the ordin-
ance records of said City
SECTION 10
That this ordinance shall become effective and be in full
force and effect from and after its passage and publication, as
required by law, provided, however, that the increased rates
specified herein shall apply to customer utility statements sent
by the City of Fort Worth on or after October 1, 1980, and it is
so ordained
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
City Attorney
Adopted by th City Council l ~T /9~0
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DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT Ord.~.na~uce Establishing New PAGE
NUMBER
Wastewa er and Water Service lof 1
8/18/80 ~~G-4665
On July 15 1980 (M&C G=4621) the City Cc,un~~il .approved new retail, monito~x~ed
and industrial wastewater .service rates-and d:i.rected the City Att=orney to prepay
an ordinance establishing such rates
On August 12 1980 (M&'C G-4632) the City Council approved new water service
rates and directed the City Attoar~ey to prepare an ordinance establishing such
rates
An ordinance has now been prepared by th~ C~.ty Attorney establishing both the
approved wastewater service rates and thc~ appTM,~~ed water service rates A copy
of the proposed ordinance is a~~;tached for the C~:ty Council9s review and consr.-
deration
Recommendation
It is recommended that the City Ccunc~.l adopt the attached ordinance which
establishes the approved wastewater .servi~.ce ~~a±ees _and water service rates ~xch
ordinances to become effective from and after its passage and publication as
required by law provided, howes:'e~- that the. ~.ncreased rates specified herean
shall apply to the customer utiliF:y s.t~;temen~~rs mailed by the City of Fort Worth
on or .after October 1 1980
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