Many urban water and wastewater utilities, particularly those that provide service
to jurisdictions outside of the owner-utility's corporate boundaries, are seeing
an
increasing percentage of the total annual service requirements coming from these outside
jurisdictions. Where such service to the outside jurisdiction is provided on a wholesale
basis, it is very important that the owner-utility protect itself and the citizens of its
community through the establishment of effective service agreements or contracts with
its wholesale service customers. This paper addresses some of the important
considerations that the owner municipal utility should incorporate in its contracts for the
provision of wholesale water and wastewater service. They include:
effective date and legal authority to enter
into an agreement with the wholesale service entity; discussion of owner and
wholesale customer facilities involved in the agreement; contract capacity
requirements and basis for revision to initial contract capacities; initial basis of
charge, billing frequency, due date, and notification process for revisions to initial rates
and charges; charges for exceeding contractual capacities; location of metering
and/or sampling facilities and ownership/maintenance responsibilities of such facilities;
basis for metering, sampling, and billing; pretreatment agreement; terms of
agreement and basis/procedures for early termination; provision for arbitration of
disputes; and, miscellaneous other issues.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
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| Number of Pages : | 5 |
