Sewer User Fee

PROSPECT WATER POLLUTION CONTROLL AUTHORITY

Notice is hereby given that the Prospect WPCA has established the sewer user charge for the period of October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025. The sewer user charge is based upon the rate established and billed to the Town of Prospect by the City of Waterbury, plus a four percent (4%) sinking fund, plus an operational fee. Individual volumes of sewer use will be determined based on individual metered sewage flows and/or each user’s water consumption as reported to the Town of Prospect by the CT Water Co. for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. The sewer user charge for this period shall be due and payable in a single installment on October 1, 2024.

Any portion of this installment remaining unpaid after October 31, 2024 is subject to interest at the rate of 18% per year (1 ½ % per month) from the due date until paid. Minimum interest fee is $2.00 per CGS 12-146. Payment of sewer user charges may be made at the Tax Collector’s office, by drop box located at the rear entrance of the Prospect Town Hall, by mail, online at www.townofprospect.gov or by phone at 877-495-2729. Collection of any such sewer user charge and accumulated interest shall be in accordance with Section 7-258 of the CT General Statutes, as amended. Checks should be made payable to Town of Prospect – Sewer Use.

Megan Patchkofsky, CCMO

Tax Collector

(To be published in the Public Notices of the Republican American on September 25, 2024, October 8, 2024 and October 25, 2024)

HOW IS MY SEWER USE BILL CALCULATED?

The Sewer Use bill consists of a User Fee, Sinking Fund Fee, and Operational Fee, each computed as follows:

USER FEE:

Each of the three (3) major sewer users in town is equipped with a flow meter that measures the sewage leaving the facility. The three major users are 1) Pond Place Medical Center, 2) Regency of Prospect, and 3) Aria Banquet Facility.
The Pond Place and Aria facilities are single users, so their metered sewer flows are used directly to establish their billed User Fee.
Since the Regency of Prospect sewer flow is comprised of many private residential units, the total flow is apportioned between each of the individual owners as follows:
Connecticut Water Company provides to the Prospect WPCA yearly domestic water usage data (July 1 through June 30) for each individual property within the Regency development. This information allows the WPCA to compute each unit’s percentage of Regency’s total domestic water usage for the year.
Each unit’s domestic water use apportionment is applied to the total Regency wastewater billing received from the City of Waterbury. This is the billed User Fee established for each user within the Regency development.

SINKING FUND FEE:

The Sinking Fund Fee is calculated by multiplying the User Fee by the sinking fund markup, currently established at 4%.

OPERATION FEE:

The total operational and administrative cost expended by the WPCA each year is totaled based on actual expenditures. That total operational cost is apportioned amongst the system users in accordance with their wastewater flow apportionment computed as described above.

SEWER BILLING:

Sewer Use bills are mailed at the end of September and become due October 1st. Payments must be received in the Tax Collector’s office on or before October 31st or contain an Official US Postmark of October 31st or prior. Any payments not received on or before October 31st that do not contain an Official US Postmark of October 31st or prior will be assessed interest at a rate of 1 ½ % per month from the due date of October 1st.
NOTE: The Water Pollution Control Authority meets in September to review the bill received from The City of Waterbury and schedule a public hearing for the establishment of Sewer User Charges for the current billing year. Questions regarding sewer usage should be directed to the Water Pollution Control Authority at [email protected]