Since wastewater from an industry or business costs more to treat -- even after it has been pretreated at the plant -- the business or industry must also incur the increased costs to the treatment plant. This ensures that proper measures are in place at the treatment plant to adequately treat the higher strength wastewater and that the added costs of this treatment are assumed by the appropriate users.

Commercial and industrial users are typically charged based on the type of establishment they are, not by their specific discharge. Customers should be given a classification code when they obtain a business license. This code will later be used to determine industrial waste charges, which are based on field sampling and laboratory analysis.

Current Industrial Waste Charges

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