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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION MINUTES REGARDING <br /> METHODS TO METER WASTEWATER NOT GOING INTO COUNTY SEWER <br /> SYSTEM - MAY 28, 2003 <br /> <br /> Smith: The next item under Unfinished Business, Discussion and approval of <br /> ordinance to meter wastewater not going into County sewer system <br /> Peter, is this something? <br /> <br /> Frankel: Is this prompted based on the discussion we had at last meeting? <br /> <br /> Bell: Yes. Rather than discuss it in concept, I thought it was better to put <br /> it down in green and black. <br /> <br /> Ono: Can someone just kind of summarize what this says? <br /> <br /> Smith: Barbara, are you going to talk to us about it or is it Peter? <br /> <br /> Bell: The change is in 21-29. A little background. This was prompted by a <br /> citizen who read the existing sewer code and put some water meters <br /> <br /> on lines that were going into the - the drains were going into the <br /> sewer system. The Code is set up for water that would be not going <br /> in, so basically irrigation. Because he's an industrial application, it's <br /> backwards from the way we were thinking of water that wasn't going <br /> in the sewer. We were thinking it was landscaping or ag uses <br /> basically. I did a site visit. The property has a lot of car washing and <br /> things out in the parking lot and the driveways and parking lots are <br /> sloped to two big dry wells. So it doesn't appear to be going into the <br /> sewer, into our system. So, I thought that the fair thing to do, for his <br /> situation, because it does have some logic to it, was to bring it to this <br /> body and see if this body saw fit to move it to the council because it <br /> would require an ordinance change. <br /> <br /> Smith: Barbara, let me make sure I understand what's going on here. So this <br /> person has a business and he's on the west side of this island, and the <br /> water that goes onto the property goes through a Department of <br /> Water Supply meter. <br /> <br /> Bell: Yes. <br /> <br /> <br /> Smith: And then what he's done is the portion of the potable water that goes <br /> through his sewer system and goes into the county wastewater <br /> system which Peter sends a bill to, goes through the water supply <br /> meter, so that's all metered. What he's then done is the portion of <br /> the water that goes into the property that doesn't go into the sewer <br />