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Utility director outlines $12 million local benefit of Coldwater’s publicly owned utility and major infrastructure projects
Summary
Director Rudy Veil presented the utility’s assets, outage and rate comparisons, and estimates that Coldwater’s municipal utility returns roughly $12 million annually to the local economy through rates, general-fund distributions and other benefits; he also reported a $3 million DWSRF grant for lead-service-line work and a planned $30–35 million wastewater plant expansion.
Utility Director Rudy Veil presented a multi-part "value to citizens" analysis showing how Coldwater’s publicly owned utility returns economic and service benefits to the community and outlined near-term infrastructure projects.
Veil described the utility’s electric, water, wastewater and telecommunications assets: transmission and distribution lines, multiple substations, a 1.8 MW solar field, diesel and natural-gas generation assets, roughly 117 miles of water main and processing of roughly 3–3.5 million gallons per day of water and wastewater. He said the…
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