Water and Sewer Rates

Sewer is billed at $150 per unit. Units are based upon a unit system of measurement as follows:

(1) Each single-family dwelling shall be charged at the rate of one unit.

(2) Each multiple-use building, other than a boardinghouse, nursing home, tourist home, hotel or motel, with which space is allocated for business or professional offices, commercial occupancy or apartments shall be charged at the rate of one unit for each dwelling unit, apartment unit, professional business or commercial space allocation.

(3) Rooming houses, tourist homes, nursing homes, hotels and motels shall be charged at the rate of one unit minimum for each 500 square feet, or major fraction thereof, of the gross floor area available for rent as determined by outside premises foundation measurement and floor count.

(4) Restaurants, taverns, bars, grills, lodges, stores, fraternal, charitable and religious organizations which maintain facilities for the preparation of food and/or beverages and/or the serving of food and/or beverages, in the event that said food and beverage facilities are in use five days per week or more, shall be charged one unit for each 15 seating spaces, or fraction thereof. Seats used seasonally, seasonally being defined as in use for no more than 7 months a year, shall be billed at one half the normal seat rate. (Amended 10-25-2016)

(5) Gasoline stations and automotive sales and/or repair premises shall be charged at the rate of two units plus one unit for each stall, space or floor area used for the washing of automotive vehicles, whether said stall, space or floor area be used for washing by manual, semiautomatic or automatic means.

(6) So-called car washes or other real premises devoted exclusively to the washing of automotive vehicles by manual, semiautomatic or automatic means shall be charged at the rate of two units for each stall, space or floor area devoted to said washing if operated 12 hours, or less, in each twenty-four-hour day; to this charge shall be added the charge of one unit for each of said stalls, spaces or floor areas operated or
usable in excess of 12 hours in each twenty-four-hour day.

(7) Lodges, charitable and religious organizations, corporations or associations organized and conducted to enable members to meet shall be charged at the rate of one unit.

(8) Laundromats containing manual, semiautomatic, automatic or coin-operated washers shall be charged one unit for each washer.

(9) Schools (private and public) and governmental installations shall be charged at the rate of one unit for each 50, or fraction thereof, students, teachers, custodians or other regular occupants and/or employees, the number of which shall be determined as of the 30th day of September and the first day of March for the next succeeding six months.

(10) Commercial establishments, including but not limited to retail stories, wholesale distributors, business operations, barber- and beauty shops, banks, post offices, funeral homes, professional and business enterprises not heretofore or hereinafter described, shall be charged at the rate of one unit for each ten (10) employees or fraction thereof.

(11) Light manufacturing and industrial plants or facilities (as determined by the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners on a case-by-case basis) shall be assessed based on the volume of water consumed. Each such facility shall provide at its expense a water meter which will be installed and maintained by the facility owner and will be pursuant to specifications provided by the Commissioners. The cost per
volume of septage discharged shall be determined from time to time by the Commissioners to reflect the fair allocation of the costs of the system to the system to use by the facility.