>Ridgewood plans changes to water discharge fee collection
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The village is looking to charge more “significant discharger” water fees in 2012, according to Village Manager Ken Gabbert.
Some property owners are not being charged for discharging more than 110,000 gallons of water a month – a standard limit set in village codes. Only non-profits and commercial properties are currently paying fees, despite an ordinance stating that residential property owners and multi-unit properties are also supposed to pay.
“For some reason, we were never going around tallying up the residentials – and there are some, it’s not a whole lot [that exceed the standard] – and the multi-family units,” Gabbert said at last Wednesday’s council meeting. “So that needs to be plugged for 2012 so that we also do the allocations there.”
The council last year approved a fee of $4.03 per 1,000 gallons beyond the standard. Gabbert noted that the fee amount will also have to be examined, though it will not necessarily increase.
