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MSD seeks 4.5% revenue increase; board directs further study of impervious-surface billing
Summary
Metropolitan Sewer District presented a $255.97 million operating budget and a 2026–2030 capital plan; MSD proposed a 4.5% revenue increase by changing the commodity charge, and the board directed MSD to return with a plan to evaluate billing large impervious-surface properties by end of 2026.
Metropolitan Sewer District staff told the Hamilton County commissioners Dec. 18 that MSD’s 2026 operating budget request totals $255,969,450 and that the district needs a 4.5% revenue increase to fund daily operations and its consent-decree obligations.
MSD said its proposed rate change would leave minimum base charges, surcharges and industrial pretreatment charges unchanged, and would instead move the commodity charge to a single rate for all water usage over the 3 CCF minimum allowance — a shift intended to generate the necessary revenue while protecting residential base charges.
"It has been determined that we need a 4.5 increase in revenue to fund the district," MSD staff said, and…
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