HomeMy WebLinkAbout(0106) RETAIL RATES 2019v2.PDFORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 35-56 (a), (b), (c) and (d)
OF CHAPTER 35, "WATER AND SEWERS", OF THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (2015), AS AMENDED, BY
REVISING AND ADDING CERTAIN VOLUME RATES AND
CHARGES; MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF
PRIOR ORDINANCES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND
PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Section 35-56(a) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (2015), as
amended, is hereby amended to delete the term Super User Customer Class in its entirety.
SECTION 2.
That Section 35-56(b) of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (2015), as
amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
(b) The following schedule of rates per month, or fraction thereof, shall be the
charges to all residential and nonresidential customers for furnishing water to
such customers located within the city. The residential monthly volume charge for
water service shall be the charges to the residential class, as defined in this
chapter, for furnishing water to residential water customers located within the
city. The nonresidential monthly volume charge for water service shall be the
charges to the nonresidential customer classes, as defined in this chapter, for
furnishing water to nonresidential water customers located within the city.
RETAIL WATER RATES
Monthly Service Charge for Water
Meter Size (inches)
5/8 X 3/4
3/4 X 3/4
1
1-1/2
Monthly charge
$12.10
$12.35
$25.55
$48.00
2
$75.00
3
$198.40
4
$339.80
6
$721.45
8
$1,260.20
10
$1,888.75
The monthly volume charge for water service is as follows:
Residential Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
First 600 or less cubic feet of water used
$2.19
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For the next 1,200 cubic feet of water used
$3.07
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For the next 1,200 cubic feet of water used
$3.92
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 3,000 cubic feet of
$4.73
water used per month, per 100 cubic feet
Commercial Customer Class
Cubic Feet
Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $2.69
Industrial Customer Class
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $2.61
Irrigation Meters
Cubic Feet Rate
First 10,000 or less cubic feet of water used $3.01
per month, per 100 cubic feet
For all in excess of 10,000 cubic feet of $3.90
water used per month, per 100 cubic feet
Gas Well Drillers
Cubic Feet Rate
All usage of water used per month, per 100 cubic feet $5.85
per month
The service charges set out in the foregoing schedules are based upon the
amount of water used as measured by meters.
SECTION 3.
That the monthly wastewater rates as described in Section 35-56(c)(1) and (c)(2) of
Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
(1) Monthly Service Charge for Sewerage Service Only
Meter Size (inches)
5/8 X 3/4
3/4 X 3/4
1
1-1/2
2
3
4
6
8
10
12
Monthly charge
$6.85
$7.15
$12.60
$22.25
$33.75
$86.65
$147.20
$310.60
$541.30
$810.40
$1,013.00
(2) A monthly volume charge shall also be charged to residential customers in
the amount of four dollars and seventeen cents ($4.17) per one hundred (100)
cubic feet of water used, and to nonresidential/non-monitored customers in
the amount of four dollars and six cents ($4.06) per one hundred (100) cubic
feet of water used, or wastewater 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. The volumes
used to compute these charges are based on the amount of water used by the
residential 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.
The monthly charges to the nonresidential/non-monitored customers will be
based on total water use as measured by appropriate meters, with the
provision that if a customer can prove, to the satisfaction of the director, that
a significant 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.
SECTION 4.
That the monthly volume rates for the monitored class as described in Section 35-56(d)
of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Volume charge, per 100 cubic feet $2.36
BOD strength charge, per pound of BOD $0.2738
Suspended solids strength charge
per pound of suspended solids $0.1841
Dissolved solids strength charge, per pound of
dissolved solids (applicable to gas well drillers) $0.0420
Monitoring and pretreatment charge= Total actual cost
The monitoring charge shall consist of all cost for personnel, material and
equipment used to collect and analyze samples from the customer's
wastewater to determine the strength of the wastewater produced and, when
appropriate, to inspect pretreatment facilities, to administer pretreatment
permit systems and to enforce ordinance requirements. Pretreatment
requirements primarily affect industries that are subject to 40 CFR, Part 403,
General Pretreatment Regulations.
This schedule shall replace all other charges previously made for industrial
waste strength.
SECTION 5.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of the
City of Fort Worth, Texas (2015), as amended, except where the provisions of this
ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such Code, in
which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby
repealed.
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.
This ordinance shall take effect on January 1, 2020.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
Christa R. Lopez -Reynolds
Sr. Assistant City Attorney
ADOPTED: