(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 20, 2009, KGW Channel 8)
Proposals to increase water and sewer rates were introduced at Wednesday’s meeting of the Portland City Council.
Under the proposal, water rates would increase 17.9 percent, or about $2.76 per month for the average household.
Sewer rates would increase 6.5 percent, or about $3.02 [...]
(May 12, 2009, The Charlotte Observer)
City Manager Curt Walton recommended a $1.87 billion budget Monday that includes an increase in water rates but not property taxes.
Water users will see $2.37 a month added to the average $45.92 water bill – a 5.2 percent increase.
Walton’s proposed budget puts more money toward street resurfacing, but freezes [...]
(May 5, 2009, The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
San Luis Obispo residents could soon pay more for water and sewer services.
A typical family of four’s water bill could go up 12 percent this year, and an additional 11 percent in 2010, according to city water division Manager Gary Henderson.
The current rate of $47.15 for a household [...]
(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, [...]
(April 21, 2009, News4Jax)
JEA is proposing a 10 percent increase in its water and sewer rates in each of the next four years while also changing the way fees are structured.
The city-owned utility said the rate increase is needed to pay for loans taken to acquire and improve the water system from the city and [...]
(March 4, 2009, The Times West Virginian)
The West Virginia Public Service Commission has agreed to hear an appeal in the Fairmont water-rate increase case.
A municipal appeal case was opened because the Valley Falls Public Service District and the City of Mannington protested the water rate increase, said Sarah Robertson, a spokesperson for the PSC.
The issue [...]
(Feb. 4, 2009, Orlando Sentinel)
ORANGE COUNTY
Residents of the Wedgefield Golf & Equestrian Community, a 1,500-home planned development, are facing their first week of paying about 83 percent more for water. Rob Goderis, president of Wedgefield’s homeowners association, said: “We’re not real happy with it. That’s a big jump.” The east Orange community near Christmas gets [...]
(Jan. 22, 2009, Franklin Park Herald-Journal)
As Chicago increases water rates to municipalities by 15 percent, Franklin Park residents will see a 7.5 percent increase in their water bills.
Franklin Park receives its water from Chicago, which in 2007 approved increasing water charges 15 percent in 2008, 15 percent in 2009 and 14 percent in 2010.
For Franklin [...]
