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:: Industrial/Commercial Incentives
Implementation of the Industrial/Commercial Sewer Public Benefits Program will begin in fiscal year 2010-11 and includes the following elements:

  1. Development of a Marketing/Public Awareness Campaign

    Industrial & Commercial IncentivesEducational tools appropriate for industrial/commercial customers will be identified and distributed and customers will be sent post card information introducing the program. Along with the program description, the post cards will educate both regular commercial customers and large industrial dischargers on the impacts of disposing harmful contaminants into the sewer system.

    Customers will be encouraged to install, operate and maintain enhanced pre-treatment facilities. This may be attractive to businesses that may have been reluctant to invest in pre-treatment technology because of the high costs associated with such improvements.

  2. Incentive Program Highlights

    • Commercial and industrial customers will be eligible for a one reimbursement of up to 50% of the cost to install pretreatment facilities, for an amount not to exceed $50,000/year per customer.
    • The program will have an annual cap of $400,000. The city will begin accepting applications for the program beginning, January 2011, in order to measure the success of the Marketing/Public Awareness campaign.
    • Applicants must demonstrate reduction in flow, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), and/or Total Suspended Solids (TSS) into the sewer system.
    • Reimbursements will be awarded on a first come, first served basis beginning January, 2011, for fiscal year 2011-12, and then annually thereafter.

  3. Proposed funding

    for the program will be achieved by sewer rates fees:
    • Commercial and Industrial Customers – $0.05 per 100 cubic feet (CCF) of measured flow.

  4. Reimbursements

    would be based on one-half of the Supplemental Capacity Charge to new industrial customers. The reimbursement values are shown in the following table:
Reimbursement to Commercial/Industrial Customers for Installation of Pretreatment facilities Flow (For each 1 CCF/day) COD (For each 1 lb./day) TSS (For each 1 lb./day)
Effective July 1, 2009 $ 0.5723 $ 0.2713 $ 0.0516
Effective July 1, 2010 $ 0.5894 $ 0.2794 $ 0.0531
Effective July 1, 2011 $ 0.6042 $ 0.2878 $ 0.0547
Effective July 1, 2012 $ 0.6254 $ 0.2964 $ 0.0564
Effective July 1, 2013 $ 0.6441 $ 0.3054 $ 0.0580

 

 
 
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