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Breaking News: Water firm files for 78% rate hike, proposes to condense surcharge
Felton water customers got a double whammy Friday, Dec. 7, as California-American Water Co. filed to boost water rates by 78 percent and proposed to collect an additional new surcharge over nine months instead of two years.
The proposals come on the heels of a series of rate increases that have Felton customers paying twice what residents of neighboring San Lorenzo Valley Water District pay.
“It is completely outrageous,” said Jim Mosher, chairman of the legal team of Felton Friends of Locally Owned Water. “We were just hit with gigantic rate increases.
“This demonstrates that the company is not able to operate effectively and efficiently and makes it even more important that the system be acquired.”
At the urging of FLOW, the water district has filed an eminent domain action to purchase the Felton system, a move that Cal-Am is resisting.
In addition to the rate filing, Cal-Am advised the state Public Utilities Commission that it intends to collect $67,000 from Felton customers over nine months rather than two years, as it originally planned to do. The money will pay FLOW’s legal fees as an “intervenor” in the most recent PUC rate case, as ordered by the PUC.
Read the full story in the December 14 Press Banner
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FLOW lied, Cal Am charges too much. SLV Water District is just going to rip us off as well.
We should have fought for FELTON ownership of the water system.