Politics & Government
Water Rates Increasing 38%
Whitefish Bay officials applied to the state for a rate increase because the village's water utility fund was operating at a deficit.
Your quarterly water bill is increasing 38 percent under new rates recently set by state regulators.
At a Whitefish Bay Village Board meeting Monday night, Village Manager Patrick DeGrave said the village's water utility has been operating at a deficit, so it went through a rate case with the Public Service Commission to apply for a rate increase. The PSC set the rate at a 38 percent increase, effective July 1.
"When I took this job a little over a year ago, we were bleeding red. We still are," he said. "The sooner we can get this rate increase in place the sooner we can start to catch up."
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The rate increase accounts for a 13 percent increase in gross plant investment, a nine percent increase in operating expenses and an estimated 13 percent increase in water sales volumes as compared to the last water rate case completed in 2010.
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