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~ <br /> <br /> ~ ~ ~ ~ <br /> Public Works <br /> City of Eugene <br /> u 1, 1997 858 Pearl Street <br /> Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br /> (541)682-5262 <br /> r cy Ilene Miller (541) 682-6826 Fax <br /> 9 49 Willow Cr k Road <br /> u ene, Oregon 9 402 <br /> e Proposed etropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC) System <br /> e elopment Ch e <br /> Ms. Miller, <br /> I following up n your June 26th letter to the City Manager and Council on the City's <br /> ption of the pr osed MWMC System Development Charge. You refer to the reduction in <br /> e residential SD rates, and request a justification of why full costs are not being recovered. <br /> proposed SD which was developed through the work of a citizen's advisory committee <br /> posed of a cro s section of people from Eugene and Springfield, recommended a radically <br /> Brent way of s cturing the MWMC SDC from the one currently in place. The basic goal of <br /> e proposed SDC s to recover not only the costs of existing plant capacity, but also the cost of <br /> capital inve ent required to expand the capacity of the regional system. (As you may <br /> w, the current WMC SDC is only a reimbursement fee, and does not include the future <br /> of system ex ansion.) Overall, the proposed SDC is designed to recover more of the public <br /> of system ca city than the currently adopted SDC. <br /> t e same time, a Committee recommended that the rate structure be based on both the <br /> ant of wastew er produced by new development, and on the strength of the wastewater <br /> 's hanged by that evelopment. This, again, is a much different approach than the current <br /> e odology base only on the number of "plumbing fixture units" in a new development as a <br /> e are of potenti wastewater usage. Approximately 35% of the total capital investment in <br /> r g onal facilities i related to the strength of wastewater, rather than the amount of wastewater <br /> i g discharged. <br /> salt of allocati g over one-third of the capital costs of the regional facilities to new <br /> elopment base on the strength of discharge is that costs were shifted to those developments <br /> higher strengt discharges. This more accurately reflects the use of those portions of plant <br /> achy related to he handling of suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand (or "SS" <br /> "E?;OD"), and lows a better match between those creating the impact and the charges they <br /> . However, the shift in costs between types of development was high enough to result in an <br /> t al dollar reduc 'on in the rates that would be charged to residential uses. <br /> l <br /> <br />