City of Los Angeles Sewer Services
Sewer Charges
PRIVATE WATER SUB-METER PROGRAM
SEWER SERVICE CHARGES BASED UPON PRIVATE SUB-METER READINGS
FOUR DWELLING UNITS AND FEWER ON A SINGLE WATER METER
FOUR DWELLING UNITS AND FEWER ON A SINGLE WATER METER
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City Council authorized a new procedure in 1996 that allows the City of Los Angeles sewer system customers to use data from private water sub-meters in the calculation of their sewer service charges (SSC). The program is totally optional and the customer will bear all costs associated with it. The program requires that the customer's plumbing be configured to separate the water distribution lines on the customer's property which drain to the sewer ("tributary lines") from those which do not drain to the sewer ("nontributary lines"). In the residential situation, tributary lines serve interior (domestic) uses, and nontributary lines serve exterior (primarily irrigation) uses. The customer may install the private sub-meter on either the tributary or the nontributary line. Hose bibs may remain attached to the tributary line, but no credit against the SSC will be given.
The City Council authorized a new procedure in 1996 that allows the City of Los Angeles sewer system customers to use data from private water sub-meters in the calculation of their sewer service charges (SSC). The program is totally optional and the customer will bear all costs associated with it. The program requires that the customer's plumbing be configured to separate the water distribution lines on the customer's property which drain to the sewer ("tributary lines") from those which do not drain to the sewer ("nontributary lines"). In the residential situation, tributary lines serve interior (domestic) uses, and nontributary lines serve exterior (primarily irrigation) uses. The customer may install the private sub-meter on either the tributary or the nontributary line. Hose bibs may remain attached to the tributary line, but no credit against the SSC will be given.
The present SSC system bases the SSC on a percentage of the volume of water delivered through the City meter and uses an estimating procedure to determine the nontributary percentage. The private sub-meter will substitute actual data for the estimate. Thus, the program should benefit many customers who use a greater than average volume of water for irrigation than average nontributary uses.
Since data from the private sub-meter will provide the best available estimate of the sewage flow generated from a customer's property, the City's base rate of $2.66 per hundred cubic feet (hcf) of sewage will be applied to the readings of a private sub-meter (on the tributary line), or the difference between the readings of the Department of Water and Power (DWP) meter and a private sub-meter (on the nontributary line), to allocate the customer's SSC bill. The $2.66 represents the City's cost to treat one hcf of sewage flow.
To receive a complete information package customers may write to the
Bureau of Sanitation:
Attention:
Residential SSC, PO Box 79083, Los Angeles, CA 90079-0083
or
Commercial SSC, PO Box 79112, Los Angeles, CA 90079-0112
Commercial SSC, PO Box 79112, Los Angeles, CA 90079-0112
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