City of Placerville Water Rates to Rise 9% Feb. 16
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“Some people in El Dorado Hills and Cameron Park think we should be paying the same wholesale water rates they do, but we read our own meters and do our own maintenance. EID just provides the water, so that’s why our rates are less.”
New city water rates will go into effect in Feb. 16, 2013, and will show up on the May bills. At Tuesday’s Placerville City Council meeting, a 9 percent rate hike was unanimously approved to help offset the increased cost of water provided by El Dorado Irrigation District.
Current bimonthly single-family residential rates will rise from a base rate of $24.38 to $26.57, while single-family residential on Lifeline will go from $18.29 bimonthly to $19.94. Rates per cubic foot are tiered and the increase depends on the consumption of water. The current bimonthly water charge for a single-family residence with median consumption is $75.26. The new rate at the same consumption level would add $6.73 every two months making the bill $81.99
“These are almost the identical rates that ...
Measure H funds, which come from a quarter percentage sales tax increase, have been used to offset water and sewer bills by 10 percent, allot $425,000 for the Pardi Way-Big Cut Road line replacement and $208,000 for other water line replacement projects, said Warren.
“We have discussed the proposed rate increase with the Measure H committee and we agreed that the rates would have to go up, but we wanted to do it incrementally, not in one big swoop that would be painful for ratepayers.”...
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