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Norwalk council approves first reading of year-round, inclining irrigation rates to offset water-production costs
Summary
The council approved the first reading of an ordinance to charge irrigation meters year-round on an inclining block schedule — higher per-unit charges as usage rises — to help offset the city’s share of a planned regional water-plant expansion and encourage conservation.
Norwalk city staff and councilmembers on Feb. 20 completed the first reading of an ordinance to amend irrigation (secondary water) billing to an all‑year, inclining block rate schedule.
Jean (city finance/water staff) told the council that Norwalk currently charges an additional irrigation rate for two months only and reported that last year irrigation used roughly 81,000,000 gallons total. "In that [two-month] period there was about 20,000,000," Jean said, noting approximately 61,000,000 gallons of irrigation went uncharged at the higher rate. Jean…
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