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Administration says large water and wastewater projects could drive ~7% rate increases; council seeks more details

Richmond City Council · April 6, 2026
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Summary

Council members pressed the administration for clearer estimates of household bill impacts from two multi-hundred-million-dollar utility projects; administration modeling shows about a 7% water rate increase and about a 6.95% sanitary increase under current assumptions, and staff committed to further modeling and state funding updates.

Council members asked for concrete estimates of how two major utility projects — described in the presentation as roughly $254 million and $237 million — would affect residential water and sewer bills.

Director Morris said the city's current modeling shows a rate increase of "right around 7%" for water and about 6.95% for sanitary sewer based on an…

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