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Water authority delays retail rate change, adopts capital cost recovery fee to charge new hookups
Summary
The Spalding County Water Authority voted to delay implementing a new retail water rate structure until customer data scrubbing and system testing are complete, and approved a capital cost recovery fee to require new customers to pay for preexisting system capacity.
The Spalding County Water Authority voted to keep its current retail water rates in place until staff completes a customer database “scrubbing” and Cogdell completes system testing. The board also approved a capital cost recovery fee (capacity fee) designed to require new customers to pay a share of preexisting system capacity.
The board’s action to delay a planned new retail rate structure — previously recommended by consultant Raftelis — will remain in effect until staff verifies the cleaned customer data and Cogdell finishes back-testing the proposed rate structure. General Manager Joseph Johnson said the data…
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