TMWA flat rate to continue

SUSAN VOYLES, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
12/14/2007
TMWA rates

Flat-rate customers with a three-quarter inch line pay $74.90 a month for all the water they use. Metered customers pay a service fee of $15.70 for the same line and $1.58 per 1,000 gallons for the first 6,000 gallons. Then, the rates goes up higher for more water usage.

In October, the TMWA board agreed not to raise rates for the coming year.

After hearing from senior citizens on fixed incomes, the water utility board serving most of Reno and Sparks agreed Thursday night not to "flip the switch" to force 11,000 customers onto metered rates until January 2010.

Truckee Meadows Water Authority board member Dave Aiazzi justified the two-year delay, saying the authority has no more storage room for the water saved in the conversion until the long-delayed Truckee River Operating Agreement takes effect.

It would provide additional water storage in mountain reserves for TMWA's 93,000 customers.

Aiazzi, a Reno councilman, and Reno Mayor Bob Cashell had been the most ardent supporters in flipping on meters now. But they said they changed their minds after hearing from people over the last two months.

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