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presumed that stormwater services are used whenever there is an improved premises. Rather than <br /> charge all people who are sanitary sewer customers, the stormwater service charge Willis now be <br /> charged to all customers with impervious surface; ~ the runoff from which directly or indirectly <br /> discharges to a public storm drainage facility. <br /> The revenues collected from service charges are currently used to fund a variety of stormwater <br /> services including: maintaining channels, such as Amazon Creek, and catch basins, repairing and <br /> replacing the existing conveyance system, picking up leaves, sweeping and flushing streets, preventing <br /> and cleaning up spills, mapping and information management, administration, central service <br /> allocation. Due to new federal stormwater quality regulations, customer fees will also be used to <br /> cover some of the storm-related components of Eugene's commitment to the West Eugene Wetlands <br /> Program, related natural resources protection and the best management practices outlined in the <br /> National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System stormwater quality permit <br /> by~sue,~; <br /> to the City. . <br /> 4.0 General Approach And Definitions <br /> To determine the total revenue requirements to be collected from stormwater service charges, the <br /> annual cost of the stormwater program is detemuned by assimilating t#r~efour cost centers: uantity, <br /> duality, street-related, and administration. Administrative costs are divided egtraflyprop . ~ r~ <br /> fly <br /> ~etwn residential and general ameng-all stormwater customers, ale quantity and quality costs are <br /> allocated to customers based on the amount of im ervious surface the have or the residential <br /> g ry , <br /> z ~ <br /> t:oz un r w~aUt~nd l~eust~i~i>ers ~i} tcategor5tu~sed ~,ti„str,et ~ ioc ecl' between res„~ ~.,l,~Y a <br /> ~`i. <br /> After revenue requirements are identified for the complete stormwater program, revenues other than <br /> the stormwater service charge are determined. These other revenues may include systems <br /> development charges, assessments, federal and state grants, bond proceeds, permit fees and other City <br /> funds, such as the road fund. The other revenues would be deducted from the total program <br /> requirements to determine the service charge revenue requirements. <br /> For the purposes of this document, the following terms are defined as: <br /> • Customer any person responsible who is authorized to request stormwater service, or who is <br /> receiving stormwater~ecwice from the City, or who is responsible for the payment of <br /> the charge for storrriwater service <br /> • Building Foot Print as applied to residential customers, means first floor area of a residential <br /> building including the floor area of an attached or detached garage. <br /> • Small Residential Category the group of residential customers who have 1,000 or less square <br /> feet of estimated building foot print. Duplexes with a total foot print <br /> of 2,000 square feet or less will be treated as two small residential <br /> properties. <br /> Stormwater Service Charge: Methodology Paper -Page 2 <br /> <br /> Draft Revisions -April 10, 1995 <br /> <br />