A. “Base rate” means the monthly charge for service from the water utility to recover costs incurred by the water utility such as administrative, meter reading, billing, collection, and fire standby service. Base rate does not include charges for water consumption quantity as registered through the required meter.

B. “Charge in lieu of assessment” means a charge made by the city on property which has not previously participated in the cost of a public water main directly serving the property.

C. “City of Auburn design and construction standards” means the requirements adopted under Chapter 12.04 ACC for storm drainage, sanitary sewer, street, and water design and construction.

D. “City services” means a customer class of water services serving the city of Auburn buildings and facilities.

E. “Commercial services” means a customer class of water services serving commercial retail, office facilities, and certain manufacturing/industrial businesses not meeting the requirements of the manufacturing/industrial service class of customers.

F. “Customer class” means groups of water service customers who have common characteristics for water use and are grouped for purposes of service and charges.

G. Deduct Meter. Refer to ACC 13.20.010 for definition.

H. “DOH” is the abbreviation for the Washington State Department of Health, which is the state agency that has been granted authority through formal agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the requirements of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act within the state of Washington.

I. “Equivalent residential unit (ERU)” means a unit representing the average quantity of water used by one average, full-time, single-family residence per day. An ERU is quantified by the size of water meter as listed below.

J. “Firm customer” refers to Auburn’s retail customers and to those wholesale customers to whom Auburn is obligated, by written agreement, to provide a continuous, uninterruptible supply of water up to a specified amount.

K. “Interruptible customer” refers to those wholesale customers to whom Auburn, by written agreement, will provide a supply of water upon request up to a specified amount, subject to the availability of Auburn’s water supply to provide such supply as reasonably determined by Auburn.

L. “Irrigation meter” means an approved city water meter connected to a public water service to determine the amount of water being used for landscape watering.

M. “Irrigation services” means a customer class of water services for the exclusive purpose of outdoor irrigation systems.

N. “Manufacturing/industrial services” means a customer class of water services to businesses identified by the city as being engaged in the manufacture of products, materials, equipment, machinery and supplies with a meter size of two inches or larger and a monthly annual average water consumption equal to or greater than 30,000 cubic feet.

O. “Multifamily residential services” means a customer class of water services to triplexes, apartment buildings, condominiums, mobile or manufactured home parks, and trailer courts.

P. “Owner/operator” means the owner and/or the person or persons owning or operating the premises served by a water service connection.

Q. “Premises” means a private home, building, apartment house, condominium, trailer court, mobile or manufactured home park, a group of adjacent buildings or property utilized under one owner/operator with respect to use of water and responsibility for payment therefor.

R. “Purity test” or “coliform/purity test” means collection and analysis of a water sample for presence of coliform bacteria.

S. “Quantity charge” means charges for the water quantity used by a water utility customer during a billing period as recorded by a water meter to recover costs of the water utility.

T. “School services” means a customer class of water services to public and private schools and colleges.

U. “Single-family residential services” means water services to individual single-family residences or to duplex units with one water meter or individual meters for each residential unit.

V. “UPC” means the Uniform Plumbing Code, including amendments, as adopted by the city.

W. “Utility” means the city of Auburn water utility or water division.

X. “Water service” means any connection to the city water system and shall be further defined by customer class.

Y. “Wholesale services” means water service to other municipal water utilities or public water districts. (Ord. 6725 § 1 (Exh. A), 2019; Ord. 6690 § 1, 2018; Ord. 5849 § 1, 2004; Ord. 5216 § 1, 1999; Ord. 4878 § 3, 1996.)