§ 34-125.1. Pipeline damage cost recovery fees.

The following fees are established for the purpose of recovering certain costs incurred by SAWS in connection with each instance of damage to a SAWS pipeline from the party which caused the damage:

(a)

Dispatch fee for response to damaged mains: Forty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents ($49.39) per instance reported to the SAWS emergency operations center.

(b)

Flowable fill and bulk material usage fee: Two hundred forty-two dollars and eighty-one cents ($242.81) per instance reported to the SAWS emergency operations center.

(c)

The amounts for the dispatch fee, and the flowable fill and bulk material usage fee are effective January 1, 2019. The fee amounts shall be adjusted on January 1 of each year thereafter by the percentage difference (greater than zero) between the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) as it is calculated by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics at the end of the month of July prior to the next year and as it was calculated at the end of the month of July one year earlier. SAWS will periodically perform a cost of service analysis to ensure that the fees charged do not exceed the cost of providing the services.

(d)

Lost water charge: The cost of water lost as a result of each instance of damage to a pipeline shall be recovered through the assessment on the estimated water loss volume of the current highest tier water supply fee rate assessed by SAWS, the current highest tier outside-the-city-limits (OCL) water delivery rate assessed by SAWS, and the current Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA) permit fee rate.

(Ord. No. 2017-12-07-0928 , § 3(Att. II), 12-7-17; Res. No. 18-262, 11-13-18)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 2017-12-07-0928 , § 3(Att. II), adopted December 7, 2011, enacted provisions intended for use as section 34-106. To preserve the style of this Code, and at the discretion of the editor, said provisions have been redesignated as section 34-125.1.