The Austin City Council made some adjustments Monday to better judge Hormel Foods Corp.’s wastewater output.

The Council approved a new ICM agreement — which monitors a company’s wastewater output — with Hormel for its domestic and industrial plant after Public Works Director Steven Lang’s office discovered the meter is off slightly at the station where the flow is monitored.

The council previously entered a one-year ICM agreemet with Hormel last December; however, to recalibrate that meter would show the actual flow amounts the city has been receiving outside of the current ICM limits.

“We’re currently getting the flow at the treatment plant right now; all we’re doing is recalibrating our meter to actually more accurately read the flow numbers, which then will give us higher numbers as a result of that,” Lang said. “Therefore we need to increase our ICM agreement with them.”

Lang recommended new ICM limits for Hormel as part of the ICM agreement, and it would allocate some additional flow for Hormel’s monthly average with their current industrial plant allotment. He also recommended an additional increase to the company’s domestic flow allotment to 100,000 gallons per day, and then also an increase appropriately to the company’s biochemical oxygen demand.

The one-year agreement goes through Dec. 31, when the city will revisit the agreement to determine if any adjustments need to be made. The city will continue to work with Hormel closely on any necessary improvements that can be made at the waste water treatment plant as part of the industrial plant to try to rescue their need for the domestic allocation in the future.