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Moderate retail water rate increases will be considered at the November 15 meeting of the Placer County Water Agency Board of Directors. The meeting will start at 2 p.m. in the PCWA Business Center at 144 Ferguson Road in Auburn. Agency directors approved 2008 rate hikes last week for wholesale water customers, saying they are necessary to meet the demands of state regulators, replace water delivery facilities and, in general, pay for the cost of doing business.
Directors authorized a wholesale treated usage charge adjustment of
five cents to seven cents per water tier sold to the City of Lincoln,
the California American Water Company and other treated water
purveyors; there were no changes in the basic monthly service charge. The monthly renewal and replacement bill component was increased from
50 cents to $1.04 per equivalent dwelling unit (EDU), and the state and
federal mandated program and area projects component was increased 55
cents per EDU. The net overall adjustment for an average treated
wholesale customer is about seven percent. The board approved a 3.25 percent increase in the usage charge for nine
large commercial agricultural users in PCWA Zone 5 and similar raises
for six untreated water purveyors in Zones 1 and 3. The adjustments
become effective January 1, 2008 except for the City of Lincoln, whose
effective date is March 1 of next year.
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