Cost Comparative Analysis to Evaluate Wastewater Service Charge Savings Strategies

The wastewater construction projects are needed for meeting the environment regulatory and compliance, preserving the sewer system and treatment infrastructure and reducing the sewer spills. However, most business owners do not understand the fundamental of the sewer service charge program and the current sewer service charge adjustment guideline only provides very basic information for the program. These business owners end up with significant amount of money and time wasted since they often fall short of qualification for sewer service charge adjustment. More importantly, no sewer service charge evaluation or cost benefit analysis is conducted for new construction projects. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to evaluate wastewater charge saving strategies through two case studies that include hospital buildings and large residential complex buildings having more than 100 units. Detailed cost comparative analysis is presented to show if the saving strategies are achievable for each case. Lastly, this paper recommends the best property management approach for the review of sewer service charge so that the significant amount of long term sewer service charge saving can be achieved for larger commercial project.