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PSC approves Shorewood rate change to fund grants for private lead service-line replacements
Summary
The Public Service Commission approved the Village of Shorewood’s request to recover grant costs for a financial assistance program (FAP) that will pay 50% of private-side lead service-line replacements, authorized a systemwide allocation of $30,000 in administrative costs, approved an agreed accounting treatment, and directed Shorewood to return for a rate case within two years.
The Public Service Commission voted to allow the Village of Shorewood Water Utility to recover the grant portion of a financial assistance program (FAP) that helps property owners replace private-side lead service lines. The action, taken in Docket 5440-WR-113, follows a multi-point decision by commissioners focused only on the FAP implementation and related accounting and charge-development issues.
Chair Strand, opening the discussion, framed the decisions as a public-health response: “There is no safe level of lead exposure,” he said, and emphasized the commission’s goal of removing lead-containing infrastructure as quickly as practicable. Commissioners agreed the case raises novel issues about how utilities may use rate dollars to fund private-side replacements under 2017 Wisconsin Act 137 and Wis. Stat. § 196.372.
Shorewood requested authority to recover about $353,708 in grant funding to support…
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