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Fargo staff presents three options for fixed water-meter fees as city replaces older meters
Summary
Troy, a city water staff member, outlined three rate alternatives to address bill impacts that will result when the city finishes replacing smaller five-eighths-inch residential meters with three-quarter-inch meters during a multi-year meter-replacement project.
Troy, a city water staff member, told the commission that a citywide meter-replacement project will standardize residential meters to three-quarter inch and that switching remaining five-eighths-inch meters to three-quarter will raise many core-neighborhood customers’ fixed monthly fees unless the commission modifies the fee structure.
Why it matters: Staff estimates about 52 percent of remaining residential meters are five-eighths inch and about 48 percent are already three-quarter inch; roughly 11 percent of the meter-replacement project had been completed at the time of the meeting. Replacing a five-eighths-inch meter with a three-quarter-inch meter would raise…
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