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Environmental Services

working for clean rivers

Phone: 503-823-7740

Fax: 503-823-6995

1120 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 1000, Portland, OR 97204

Sanitary Sewer System User Service Charges and Discounts

(authorized by City Code Sections 17.34.150, 17.36.070 and 17.36.110)

1. Residential Users 

a. Sanitary Sewer Services

$8.14 per 100 cubic feet of water consumption

b. Low Income Discount

$27.70 per month for eligible ratepayers only

2. Non-Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Institutional Users

a. Special Meter Charge

$27.30 per special meter per bill

b. Sanitary Sewer Services

$8.121 per 100 cubic feet of water consumption

c. Clean Water Discharges

$0.824 per 100 cubic feet of discharged clean water to a storm sewer other than a combined sewer

d. Publicly-Owned Drinking Fountain

$0.001 per 100 cubic feet of discharged water

3. Industrial Extra-Strength Discharger

a. Biochemical Oxygen Demand

$0.574 per pound (allowable concentration – 300 mg/liter)

b. Suspended Solids

$0.696 per pound (allowable concentration – 350 mg/liter)

c. Extra Strength Resample

$269.00 per composite sample

4. Discounts

Clean River Rewards

User fee discounts of as much as 35% of the monthly stormwater management charge for private on-site facilities that manage stormwater runoff and 100% of the monthly on-site stormwater management charge for Drainage District residents and businesses

Treebates

One-time user fee discount for the planting of qualifying yard trees equal to 50% of the purchase price of each yard tree up to $50 for eligible native trees, and $40 for all other eligible trees