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Staff recommends 5% local rate increase for Springfield wastewater and stormwater; regional board signals 5.5% adjustment
Summary
City staff recommended a 5% increase in local wastewater and stormwater user fees for FY27 and briefed council on regional partners' direction to pursue a 5.5% regional adjustment; staff said the typical residential bill impact would be about $2.31 locally plus about $1.84 if regional changes are implemented.
Environmental Services Director Matt Stouderer and Community Development Director Jeff Paschal presented the city’s proposed FY27 wastewater and stormwater user-fee adjustments and the reasons behind them.
Staff framed the recommendation around system scale and regulatory drivers: Springfield’s systems include hundreds of miles of pipe, dozens of pump stations and tens of thousands of gallons-per-day peaking flows; aging assets, regulatory requirements from the MS4/stormwater permit and recent permit…
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