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PUC outlines plan to add stormwater line item to sewer service charge, proposes GIS viewer and grant credits
Summary
Rates administrator Erin Franks told commissioners the PUC plans to separate a stormwater component from the sewer service charge, roll it in beginning with the 2022 rate package, build a GIS-linked parcel database to justify charges, and offer a grant/credit program for property owners who install stormwater management.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission heard a staff update from Erin Franks, the rates administrator, on designing a stormwater component to the city sewer service charge.
Franks said a 2018 rate study estimated roughly 17% of total wastewater costs (operations and capital) are attributable to managing stormwater runoff during wet-weather events and that the current charge embeds those costs inside the sanitary sewer component. “Our most recent rate study in 2018 calculated that about 17% of our total…
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