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Governor Schwarzenegger’s letter to Interior Sec. Ken Salazar is a telling story of the kind of frustration that comes with trying to balance environmental, agricultural, and municipal water supply interests of a state’s finite water resources. The situation in California is a serious one and you can see the Governor’s frustration in this letter. The [...]
Many water and sewer utility managers look to their closest consulting engineer as their “expert” on water and sewer rates. Usually, the query is because there is an emergency of some kind, as is the case in this Vermont example. What we see in this case is a community whose water and sewer demand rates [...]
Water and sewer rates can sneak up and damage your utility if you aren’t actively managing ratepayer expectations. Planning ahead, using projections of simple recurring costs like water and sewer rehabilitation and replacements is just one example. In this example, we see what happened to one community that didn’t plan: 122% sewer rate increase, 67% [...]
StepWise Utility Advisors to release new ‘Rate Lock’ service tailored for water and sewer utilities’ rate setting needs. The service features customized approaches and scalable fees based on the number of customers served.
We recently completed a study session with the Santa Fe City council. StepWise has been engaged to study the City’s water rates, utility expansion charges, low-income credit program (for water rate discounts) and cost-of-service allocations. StepWise’s president, Jason Mumm, made the presentation. The event was covered by the local media, The Santa Fe New Mexican [...]
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