City of Fredericton Waste & Sewer Long-Term Financial Plan (PDF)

fully known, these factors cannot be ignored and the Plan must adapt in order to accommodate thesechanges over time.Due to past prudent management of the systems, the City has the benefit of having infrastructure inplace that allows the City to adapt more quickly to new Federal safe drinking water and wastewatertreatment regulations than many other municipalities. Standards issued by the Canadian Council ofMinisters of the Environment (CCME) relating to wastewater will have a much smaller impact on the Cityof Fredericton than many other municipalities across Canada.It is estimated that in order to comply with these new standards, the City will need to invest $6 - $8million in areas such as the Lincoln Lagoon and Garden Creek Lagoon. These changes, by law, must beaddressed as early 2020 and as late as 2040 depending on the risk assessment of the system. Due to thefact that these new regulations are above and beyond the City’s current standard, the City will beworking with other levels of government to fund these changes. This will allow the City to lessen thefunding burden on the user.BillingA typical City of Fredericton quarterly water and sewer bill has three main components:• Meter rental charge – this charge varies by size of meter• Quarterly Service charge – this charge is a flat rate charged to all users for both water andsewer service• Commodity charge – this is a rate charged per cubic meter (m 3 ) for both water and sewersupplyBased on the industry standard usage of 272 m 3 per household of four people, the average annualcharge for water and sewer services equates to $718 or $179.50 quarterly. Based on actual consumptiondata for 2012, the average Fredericton household consumes just over 194.55 m 3 of water annually. Thisusage equates to an average annual bill of $591 or $147.85 quarterly.Connected but unmetered customers have full use of the system, however, there is no meter installedon the property and consumption cannot be monitored. The rates for this type of customer are set tomirror what the water and sewer bill would be for a user based on the industry standard usage of 272m 3 annually for an average family.Unconnected customers are those that have services running adjacent to their property but are notconnected to the system. These customers pay the equivalent of the quarterly service charge.7