Press Release

PUC to Investigate Proposed Rate Request by Pike County Wastewater Co.

Published on 9/24/2009

Filed under: Water and Wastewater

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today voted to investigate a proposed rate increase for wastewater service for Clean Treatment Sewage Co.

The Commission voted 5-0 to investigate the proposed $221,317 (65.8 percent) increase for wastewater revenues.  It is suspended for up to seven months until May 1, 2010, and will be assigned to the Office of Administrative Law Judge for public hearings and a recommended decision or settlement. 

Under the company’s proposal, the average yearly residential bill would increase from an annual flat rate of $816 to $1,409.28 (72.7 percent).

Clean Treatment Sewage Co. serves about 370 customers in the Marcel Lake Estates Development in Delaware Township, Pike County.  The company said the primary reason for the rate increase is to restore the company’s rate of return and net operating income to a more reasonable level and to recover the company’s investments in sewer plants.

More information on the ratemaking process is available on the Commission’s website.                       

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission balances the needs of consumers and utilities to ensure safe and reliable utility service at reasonable rates; protect the public interest; educate consumers to make independent and informed utility choices; further economic development; and foster new technologies and competitive markets in an environmentally sound manner.

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Docket No. R-2009-2121928

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