8M Consent 2011 0906 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

providing that the City of San Leandro remains competitive with its immediate neighbors. Alternate Connection Fee Calculations The prior analyses are those used in the past and commonly employed by wastewater utilities with nonresidential fees then established by dividing the residential use characteristics into the connection fee costs allocable to flow, BOD and SS. The City's single- family use characteristics are relatively low, and the City's WPCP has relatively high but unused capacities of flow, BOD and SS. The result is different than if the design capacities of the WPCP are used. The unit costs then become $4.50 /gpd for flow, $235 lb /day for BOD and $250 /b /day for SS which times current single - family use of 164 gpd, 0.24 lb /day of BOD and 0.24 lb /day for SS equal a fee of only $855.00. The same calculation but allocating the current connection fee of $950.00 and dividing by single- family use yields unit costs of $4.34 /gpd for flow, $475 lb /day for BOD and $475 lb /day for SS. Assuming the City maintains the single- family connection fee of $950.00, the alternate means of calculating connection fee unit costs only affects high - strength users and would lower their connection fees. Connection Fee Assessment Recommendations. Presented below are the connection fee recommendations for the assessment of nonresidential connection fees with no changes proposed because the change made to single - family residential flows was minor and have even less affect on nonresidential connection fees because most are based on flows and the flow /gpd it not being changed. 1. An equivalent single - family residential dwelling unit should for connection fee purposes should be defined as discharging 164 gpd, 0.24 lb /day of BOD, and 0.24 lb /day of SS. 2. The basic connection fee should should continue to be allocated to the treatment parameters in accordance with a composite of the wastewater treatment plant and disposal system cost allocations which are summarized below: _ Peak month Flow: 75 percent BOD: 12 percent SS: 13 percent Unit costs for each treatment parameter are then be calculated and used to develop nonresidential connec- tion fees. Unit costs for the single- family connection fee of $950 are shown on the following page for standard design and alternate design. Note that a residential connection fee is derived by multiplying these unit costs by a single - family residential 1 85