The utility committee has made the decision to increase sewer rates effective for the third quarter bills of 2018. The committee approved an increase of 5% for sewer base charges and 5% for sewer volume charges. The following chart illustrates how the increase will affect quarterly utility bills based upon how much water is consumed:
| Sewer Rate Increase for 5/8″ Residential Customer | |||||||||||||
| Effective: Third Quarter 2018 | |||||||||||||
| Old | Old | New | New | Your | |||||||||
| Quarterly | Old | Volume | Quarterly | New | Volume | Bill | |||||||
| Base | Volume | Rate Times | Base | Volume | Rate Times | Increase | |||||||
| Gallons | Charge | Rate | Gallons | Charge | Rate | Gallons | Per Qtr | ||||||
| 5,000 | $64.16 | $13.52 | $67.60 | $67.37 | $14.20 | $70.98 | $6.59 | ||||||
| 10,000 | $64.16 | $13.52 | $135.20 | $67.37 | $14.20 | $141.96 | $9.97 | ||||||
| 15,000 | $64.16 | $13.52 | $202.80 | $67.37 | $14.20 | $212.94 | $13.35 | ||||||
| 20,000 | $64.16 | $13.52 | $270.40 | $67.37 | $14.20 | $283.92 | $16.73 | ||||||
