King County
Industrial Waste Program
2008 Fee Schedule
The following charges are assessed on businesses discharging wastewater to
the King County sewerage system.
Learn more about industrial
waste fees and see a comparison of 2007 and 2008 fees on page 4 of the Winter 2007-08
KCIW newsletter. (PDF File, 834KB)
Permit Fees:
$1,675
A permit includes
pretreatment requirements, discharge limits, and special conditions
for Significant Industrial User or Categorical sites. The fee
covers King County's costs in administering the permit. Permits
are issued for five years.
Other discharge approvals:
Major Discharge
Authorization and renewal: $1,530
Minor Discharge
Authorization and renewal: $930
Letter of
Authorization: $215
Discharge authorizations and Letters of
Authorization are issued for smaller discharges or for discharges of limited
duration. The program issues discharge authorizations for up to five
years.
Fines: up
to $10,000 per violation per day Companies with
discharge or permit violations are subject to fines of up to
$10,000 per violation per day. Dischargers are also liable for
any damages and additional costs caused by their discharges.
Surcharge Program
Biochemical
Oxygen Demand (BOD): $0.184804/pound
Total Suspended
Solids (TSS): $0.288865/pound
Facililties that
discharge waste having a Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) greater
than 300 mg/l or Total Suspended Solids (TSS) greater than 400
mg/l pay for King Countys cost to treat this high-strength
waste.
Monitoring Fees
Heavy Metals
Monitoring: $0.002371/gallon
Fats, Oils,
and Grease (FOG) Monitoring: $0.000277/gallon
Facilities that
are monitored for heavy metals or FOG pay fees to cover the cost
of this monitoring.
Post-Violation
Inspection and Monitoring: Fee varies
This fee applies
only to companies who violate pretreatment permit requirements
and receive additional King County monitoring and sample analysis.
Fees recover costs of this monitoring.
Post Violation fee schedule
King County
Operations Charge: $27.95/RCE*
This charge recovers
King Countys costs for transporting and treating sewage,
as well as building and maintaining the sewerage system. *RCE
= 750 cubic feet
Capacity Charge:
$46.25/month/RCE
King County levies
this fee for all new residential, commercial, and industrial
connections to the sewerage system.
(Page revised 12/18/07. For further information, e-mail Doug
Hilderbrand.)
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