HomeMy WebLinkAbout3446 AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No.
3147 as amended by Ordinance No.
3184, Ordinance No. 3216, and
Ordinance No. 3301 and Ordinance
No. 3307, relating to the Municipal
Water Supply System of the City of
Bremerton increasing water and
sewer rates.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. - a. Section III, Subparagraph G.1.
of Ordinance No. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.080 (a))is
amended to read:
1. Meter rates within the city limits:
500 cubic feet or less ........ $3.25
The next 4,500 cubic feet @ ...... 45
Over 5,000 cubic feet @ ........ 40
b. Section III, Subparagraph G.4. of
Ordinance No. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.080. (d)) is
amended to read:
2. Where two or more separate buildings or
premises under separate ownership or
management are now supplied w~th water through
one meter, the minimum rate for each such
separate builidng, regardless of the size
of the meter, shall be three dollars and twenty-
five cents per month within the city
limits and four dollars and eithty-eight
cents per month~ outside the city limits.
The payment of such amount shall entitle
each separate building to five hundred cubic
feet of water per month per unit. The rates
provided by this section shall apply to
places of business, residences, house
trailers, tourist cabins serving as permanent
family units, and any other such premises
used for permanent human occupancy by the
same family or tenant for periods of more
than one month. The provisions of this section
shall apply to each unit of duplexes
and similar buildings where the respective
units thereof are separately or jointly
owned by more than one family or business.
Section 2. Section III, Subparagraph H.1.
Ordinance NO. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.090 (a)) is
amended to read:
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(a) Minimum meter rates within the city limits
per month for five hundred cubic feet or less:
5/8 to 3/4 inch meter ........ $ 3.25
1 inch meter ............ 4.40
1-1/2 inch meter .......... 6.45
2 inch meter ............ 8.50
3 inch meter ......... .. . . 12.65
4 inch meter ............ 20.90
6 inch meter ............ 33.25
8 inch meter ............ 49.75
12 inch meter ............ ~66.25
Section 3. Section III, Subparagraph I, Ordinance
No. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.100.) is amended to read:
I. INDUSTRIAL RATES. Consumers using in excess of
forty thousand cubic feet per month may make
application for industrial rates on forms to be
supplied for such purposes, which industrial
rates shall be a minimum fixed charge of one-hundred
forty dollars per month for water up to forty
thousand cubic feet and thirty-five cents per
one hundred cubic feet in excess of forty
thousand cubic feet per mo~th.
Section 4. Section III, Subparagraph J, Ordinance
No. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.110) is amended to read:
J. SPECIAL IRRIGATION RATES. A special rate for
sprinkling or irrigating tracts of land shall
be available to single fancily residences, duplexes
and fourplexes furing the 'summer period. As to
premises for which billings are produced during
June through November, special rates will
apply. The special rates shall be $13.00 for
the first five thousand cubic feet used during
each bimonthly billing period and forty cents
per one hundred cubic feet thereafter. Tracyton
rates shall be $16.25 for. the first five thousand
cubic feet used during each bimonthly billing
period and fifty.50¢ per one hundred cubic feet
thereafter. All other county rates shall be $19.50
for the first five thousand cubic feet and sixty
cents per one hundred cubic feet thereafter.
Section 5. Section III, Subparagraph L.3, Ordinance
No. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.130 (c)) is amended to read:
3. SERCVICE CHARGES. The rates for water supply,
for fire protection purposes exclusively, shall
be termed service charges and shall be as
follows for any one month or portion thereof
for service inside the city limits:
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SIZE OF SERVICE FIRE SERVICE CHARGE
2 inches .......... $ 3.25
3 inches .......... 3.70
4 inches .......... 5.05
6 inches .......... 7.15
8 inches .......... 8.50
10 inches .......... 11.20
12 inches .......... 12.25
Rates for service outside the city limits
shall be one hundred fifty percent of the
city rates.
Section 6. Section III, Subparagraph AM, Ordinance
No. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.500) is amended to read:
WATER DISTRICTS - RATES. The rates for water
supplied to incorporated water districts through
master meters shall be as follows for one month
or fractional part thereof:
A. Rates in Low Pressure Zones..~For six hundred
cubic feet per month per user - Three dollars
and Fifteen cents; Over six hundred cubic
feet per month per user, per one hundred cubic
feet - Thirty-five cents.
B. Rates in Intermediate Pressure Zones. For
six hundred cubic feet per month per user-
Three dollars and fifty-five~ents;
Over six hundred cubic feet per month per user,
per one hundred cubic feet - Thirty-five Cents
C. High Pressure Zones. For six hundred cubic
feet per month per user - Four dollars and five
cents.
Over six hundred cubic feet per month per user,
per one hundred cubic feet - forty cents.
Section 7. Section IV, Subparagraph H.2.b., Ordinance
No. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.550 (b) (2)) is amended :to
read:
(b) Sewer service charges will be levied, when
possible, on the basis of water metered to the
premises at fifty-five cents per one hundred
cubic feet per month up to the minimum cubic
feet specified in the chart below, and at
forty-five cents per one hundred cubic feet
thereafter.
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WATER METER SIZE MINIMUM CUBIC FEET
5/8 to 3/4 inch ........ 500
1 inch ............ 1,000
1 - 1/2 inch ......... 1,500
2 inch ............ 2,500
3 inch ............ . 4,500
4 inch ............ 7,500
6 inch ............ 15,000
8 inch ............ 30,000
10 inch ............ 50,000·
12 inch ............ 72,000
Section 8. Section IV, Subparagraph H.2.e. Ordinance
No. 3147 (Municipal Code 15.04.550 (b) (5)) is amended to read:
'. (e) Those premises within the city limits served by
the Bremerton sewer system, but not served by the
Bremerton water system, shall pay a monthly sewer
charge as follows:
City residents .................. $ 2.75 per month
County residents ................. $ 4.13 per month
APPROVED by the City Council ~n the first reading
this l/~"
- day of JULY , 1978.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the%City Clerk in
authentication of such passage this /~~ day of ~Vl~ , 1978.
KATHLEEN L. MANDIO
City Clerk
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