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Manuals - Sewer Use Model Bylaws
Schedule "A" Equivalent User Units

TYPE OF USER NUMBER OF EQUIVALENT

USER UNITS
Single Family Dwelling 1.0
Mobile Home

- for private swimming pool, and

- for each doctor or dentist in a private home, add

- for each beauty or barber shop in a private home, add
1.0

1.0

1.0

0.75
Individual Apartment 1.0
Senior Citizens Home, per unit 0.6
Rooming house, Boarding House, Convent, Institutional Dormitory

- up to five beds

- each additional bed


1.0

0.2
Hospitals and Homes with Medical Care Facilities

- without laundry facilities, per bed

- with laundry facilities, per bed


0.5

0.75
Schools, per classroom

- without cafeteria or gym

- with cafeteria or gym

- with second gym, and

- with both cafeteria and gym


1.0

1.5

0.5

2.0
Doctor's Office, Dentist's Office, Beauty or Barber Shop 1.0
Tourist Trailer Park with hook-up facilities

- per space

- each additional bathroom


0.75

0.3
Hotels, Motels, and Tourist Cottages

- with housekeeping facilities, per room or unit

- without housekeeping facilities, per room or unit

- with a swimming pool, and


0.5

0.3

1.0
Tourist Home

- with one bathroom

- each additional bathroom, add


1.2

0.3

SCHEDULE "A" PAGE 2

TYPE OF USER NUMBER OF EQUIVALENT

USER UNITS
Restaurant, Cafeteria, Snack Bar etc. are in addition to the above listing and are rated elsewhere in this Schedule.
Stores, Banks, Clubs, Recreational Facilities, and places of business including Industrial premises

- first washroom facility

- each additional washroom facility, add


1.0

0.5
Churches, Church Halls, each washroom facility 0.3
Buildings owned by Fraternal Organizations, each washroom facility 0.3
Fire Halls and Fire Stations

- with washroom facilities

- without washroom facilities


0.5

0.3
Laundromat

- each machine, add
1.0

2.0
Service Stations with washroom facilities 2.0
Car wash facilities, each bay 1.0
Restaurant, cafeteria, snack bar

- for each ten seats, add
2.0

0.25
Premises licensed by N.S. Liquor Commission: Restaurant, Lounge, Dining Room or Club

- for each five seats, add
1.0

0.75
Drive-in Restaurant or Theatre with Canteen

- for first washroom facility

- for each additional washroom facility, add
1.0

1.0

0.5
Vacant Land

- for each lot with up to 300 feet of street or highway frontage

- for each additional 50 ft. or portion of thereof of street or highway frontage, add


0.3

0.1
Street or highway frontage of a lot which, for every 50 feet or portion thereof, is in excess of 300 feet, and whose User Type falls within this list, and 0.1
Any Dwelling, Shop, Store, Office or other Building the nearest part of which is more than 100 feet from any portion of the Municipality's sewer and which is not connected to the Municipality's sewer 0.2
Premises which have no Sanitary Facilities 0.5

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