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Water district warns of major CIP costs, PFAS detections and potential rate pressure
Summary
Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District director Darcy Burke told the council the district’s capital program tops $650 million, cited mandated compliance projects and new contaminant standards (PFAS, arsenic, vanadium) that will increase costs, and said Metropolitan’s possible 23% rate increase could further pressure local rates.
CANYON LAKE, Calif. — Darcy Burke, director of the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District, told the Canyon Lake City Council Wednesday that the district’s capital improvement program has exceeded $650 million and that regulatory and treatment requirements are the primary drivers of rising costs.
Burke said many projects were mandated by regulation rather than driven by new development and stressed…
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