(June 2, 2009, TriValleyCentral)
The company, which in Pinal County serves Casa Grande, Coolidge, Arizona City, Stanfield and other areas, has asked the Arizona Corporation Commission for approval to raise its general rates for a base revenue growth of about 35 percent.
The request was filed last year and a hearing is scheduled for Aug. 31 [...]
(May 2, 2009, The Statesboro Herald)
If the measure passes, water and sewer base rates will both go up. The water base rate will rise from $4.60 per month to $6.00 while the sewer rate does the same. As a result, the base rates for city residents will go up $2.80 per month.
Johnson said some of [...]
(May 1, 2009, The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
The rates approved in 2008 increased bills by 27.5 percent the first year, 12.5 percent the second, 12.5 percent the third and 12 percent the fourth. Franklin said Atlanta’s rates already are higher than other major cities.
Auditors suggested the later hikes might be reduced by as much as 2 [...]
(April 23, 2009, The Pasadena Star-News)
Some San Gabriel Valley residents could see their water rates go up by as much as 56 percent next year under a proposal by California American Water Co.
California American Water, which provides water to 28,000 households and businesses – or about 100,000 people – in the San Gabriel Valley, [...]
(March 9, 2009, DelwareOnline)
Newark City Council is expected to raise its water rates 20 percent today, after backing off a controversial plan to increase rates for out-of-town customers by 30 percent.
Council members, facing criticism from area lawmakers and a crowd of about 100 at their last meeting, agreed to a 20 percent, across-the-board increase. Instead [...]
(March 6, 2009, The Mercury News)
Residents of a Santa Cruz Mountains hamlet have successfully argued that a 30 percent water rate hike in financially-tough times is too much.
The San Lorenzo Valley Water District got more than 1,500 written objections out of its 7,300 customers, as well as a vocal crowd at the board’s Thursday night [...]
