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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Utility Commission Meeting: June 28, 2021
AGENDA SECTION:
AGENDA ITEM: MCES Municipal Wastewater Charges 2022
New Business
PREPARED BY: Brian Erickson, P.E. Director of Public Works
AGENDA NO. 7.c.
/ City Engineer
ATTACHMENTS: MCES 2022 Municipal Wasterwater Charge APPROVED BY: BLE
RECOMMENDED ACTION: None, informational only
BACKGROUND
The City of Rosemount has a sanitary sewer collection system that is connected into the Metropolitan Council
Environmental Services (MCES) interceptor and treatment system. As a part of the regional wastewater treatment
system the MCES reviews the annual flow from each community and sets the billing rate for the upcoming calendar
year. The attached sheet provides the MCES’s proposed annual rate for the City of Rosemount showing an increase
of approximately $230,000 or 18% from the 2021 billing.
DISCUSSION
The MCES collection and treatment system uses as service fee for each of the communities within the metropolitan
treatment area. Billing for each community is based on each community’s flow as a portion of the total regional
flow. That percentage is then used to establish the billing based on the MCES wastewater charges for the region.
Since the flow changes annually based on growth, inflow/infiltration (I/I) and water conservation, the annual charge
can fluctuate. Additionally, as cities with a traditionally higher I/I correct those problems their portion of the total
flow can drop, thus resulting in other communities accounting for a higher flow proportion.
Staff will be discussing these charges and in the near future will present the 2022 Sanitary Sewer budget which will
need to account for this increase in charges.
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May 5, 2021
City of Rosemount
For 2022, the estimated wastewater service fee for your community is
$1,546,945.27, a change of 17.94% from 2021. The table below details your
wastewater flow, in millions of gallons (mg), and allocated cost of service:
Community Allocation 2022 2021 2020
Metered flow (mg) 551.40 529.20 517.20
Unmetered flow (mg) 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total flow (mg) 551.40 529.20 517.20
Percent of regional flow 0.62% 0.55% 0.59%
Municipal wastewater charge $1,546,945 $1,311,672 $1,386,562
Cost change from prior 17.94% -5.40% 6.40%
Your fee is based on the portion of wastewater flow discharged from your
community to the regional system in the past year (2020) multiplied by the
regional wastewater charge for the next year (2022). Year-to-year changes
are affected by growth, water conservation, and inflow and infiltration.
Region 2022 2021 2020
Regional allocated flow (mg) 89,095.42 96,967.05 87,891.72
Flow change from prior -8.12% 10.33% -2.33%
Regional wastewater charge $249,956,000 $240,342,000 $235,629,000
Cost change from prior 4.0% 2.0% 3.6%
Community Map; see next page for details.
Some wastewater may enter or leave your community but not be included in the metered flow total. These unmetered flows are
shown below. Assigned wastewater volumes per unit, such as single-family unit (SFU) or residential equivalent connection (REC),
vary based on past flow response to wet weather, age of services, and other available data.
Flow from Rosemount = 0.00 mg; added to allocated flow:
Flow to Rosemount = 0.00 mg; deducted from allocated flow:
Unmetered flow total = 0.00 mg
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