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Rates and Charges for Sewer Service to Industry George K. Erganian, Executive Vice-President Henry B. Steeg & Associates, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana INTRODUCTION A number of papers have been written in the past discussing methods of arriving at equitable charges for sewer service to industry. Most of these papers have considered rate structures based primarily in terms of volume and concentration of wastes involved. The development of these rate structures has for the most part followed the reasoning that the rates and charges are intended to cover the cost of constructing and operating a sewage treatment plant and interceptor sewer system. Under this condition the development of a rate structure based on volume of flow and including surcharge rates for abnormal concentrations of industrial wastes is reasonable. Methods of determining these surcharge rates to industry involve the allocation of the cost of both the construction and operation of the facilities required for handling (1) flow, (2) solids and (3) BOD. Examples of these computations presented in the literature are worthy of attention and understanding, since they represent rational methods of allocating the fair cost of waste treatment to the industries involved. While this paper is not intended to discuss this phase of rate making, it might be noted, in the way of confirming the opinion of other authors, that the use of a surcharge formula has certain practical limitation, particularly from the administrative cost angle, and as a result we find very few instances of such surcharge rates being imposed on industry in Indiana. The principal concern of this author and the theme of this paper is the fact that there has been a gradual distortion of the basic premises of rate making for sewer service in Indiana. For years we have recited the fact that the cost of constructing and operating a sewage works is directly related to flow and concentration of wastes to be treated and that equitable charges to a customer for the service should therefore be based on the volume and concentration of wastes discharged by that customer. In order to describe some of the inequities which may arise from the indiscriminate use of this philosophy, it is necessary first to 139
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Title | Rates and charges for sewer service to industry |
Author | Erganian, George K. |
Date of Original | 1959 |
Conference Title | Proceedings of the fourteenth Industrial Waste Conference |
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Transcript | Rates and Charges for Sewer Service to Industry George K. Erganian, Executive Vice-President Henry B. Steeg & Associates, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana INTRODUCTION A number of papers have been written in the past discussing methods of arriving at equitable charges for sewer service to industry. Most of these papers have considered rate structures based primarily in terms of volume and concentration of wastes involved. The development of these rate structures has for the most part followed the reasoning that the rates and charges are intended to cover the cost of constructing and operating a sewage treatment plant and interceptor sewer system. Under this condition the development of a rate structure based on volume of flow and including surcharge rates for abnormal concentrations of industrial wastes is reasonable. Methods of determining these surcharge rates to industry involve the allocation of the cost of both the construction and operation of the facilities required for handling (1) flow, (2) solids and (3) BOD. Examples of these computations presented in the literature are worthy of attention and understanding, since they represent rational methods of allocating the fair cost of waste treatment to the industries involved. While this paper is not intended to discuss this phase of rate making, it might be noted, in the way of confirming the opinion of other authors, that the use of a surcharge formula has certain practical limitation, particularly from the administrative cost angle, and as a result we find very few instances of such surcharge rates being imposed on industry in Indiana. The principal concern of this author and the theme of this paper is the fact that there has been a gradual distortion of the basic premises of rate making for sewer service in Indiana. For years we have recited the fact that the cost of constructing and operating a sewage works is directly related to flow and concentration of wastes to be treated and that equitable charges to a customer for the service should therefore be based on the volume and concentration of wastes discharged by that customer. In order to describe some of the inequities which may arise from the indiscriminate use of this philosophy, it is necessary first to 139 |
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