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After years and years of defying the trend among public utilities toward almost weekly rate increases, the town of Washington’s water system is facing a rate hike.
At Tuesday’s meeting of the Washington town council, treasurer Brad Fisher told his fellow council members that they needed to discuss raising the water fees, now at the base rate of $3 for up to 3,000 gallons and ten cents per 100 gallons up to 10,000 gallons. Then it’s 20 cents per hundred gallons after that.
Since well over 60 per cent of the system’s customers use only the minimum, the base rate must be upped if the increase is to generate any appreciable revenue, Fisher reported. As for growth in the system, he noted that the town is allowed 120 meters and to date, 119 have been allocated.
‘‘Our base rate is S3—that’s awfully cheap water,” remarked mayor Newbill Miller. “The problem is we haven't raised the rates since 1 can remember.”
Taylor Updike recalled that an increase had come
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