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ESU board recommends updated sewer fee structure, proposes separate industrial class

2695517 · March 18, 2025
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Summary

The board voted to forward proposed sewer ordinance fee changes to city council, creating two classes of sewer customers, increasing industrial load charges and proposing a 3,000,000-gallon monthly threshold for special rates.

The Kankakee City Environmental Services Utility Board voted March 17 to recommend that the City Council consider revisions to the sewer ordinance fee schedule that create two customer classes and raise industrial load charges to better recover costs related to fats, oils and grease.

Board members and staff said the proposed structure would designate Class 1 as domestic customers (residential and ordinary commercial businesses) and Class 2 as identified industrial users with heavier…

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