Water Rates Might Go Up (San Bernardino County Sun Feb. 15, 2008) Depends on amount used!!

BS Ranch Perspective

I guess it would be inevitable for the water rates to go up with the cost of Perchlorate Contamination and all the court costs that the County Water Department is having to pay for, The City of Rialto was forced to discharge the Cities Representation that they have had for over 15 years, because of the poor decision making that he was doing in an attempt to take the responsible party, or the party that he was convinced was responsible for causing the Perchlorate contamination in the first place. I mean who would you believe was responsible, a company that was using a chemical that was approved at the time that they were using it by the government, and it was even disposed of in the manor proscribed by law at that time of the year!

However having written that the City of Rialto's Attorney wanted to apply today's laws to what a company did Yesterday which contaminated the water supply, Now who knows what they did wasn't the normal way to dispose of this chemical, because there is an awful a lot of contamination in the south land. Why not just Rialto & Colton, but San Bernardino, parts of Pasadena, Santa Ana, Orange County has some Perchlorate Contamination as well. I bet that there is some Perchlorate Contamination in Inyo County and Kern County as well as Los Angeles County too.

Now I know that it wasn't just two Companies such as Black & Decker, and Goodyear that spread the Perchlorate all over the Counties of Southern California!!

BS Ranch

Water rates might go up

Depends on amount used

Lauren McSherry, Staff Writer

Article Launched: 02/15/2008 09:57:49 PM PST

A ruling by a federal judge that cut by two-thirds the amount of water flowing from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta to Southern California - combined with a lingering drought - has set off a chain reaction that could result in higher water rates in parts of San Bernardino County.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a regional water supplier based in Los Angeles, adopted a plan Tuesday that would penalize client water agencies exceeding their allocation, a cost that could be passed on to ratepayers.

One of the MWD's 26 clients is the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, which relies on Metropolitan for roughly one-third of its water supply.

The Inland Empire agency serves 800,000 customers in seven cities - Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga and Upland.

"The first thing to understand is they're going to apply very significant rate increases and penalties if we use water above what we're allocated," said Wyatt Troxel, inland water board president.

Troxel estimated water rates could increase from 3percent to 5percent in the short term and predicted that cities experiencing rapid population growth could be hit hardest. Programs to provide recycled water to municipalities should decrease the demand for imported water in the long term, he said.

Montclair, Upland and Rancho Cucamonga have the greatest risk because Montclair and Upland are still in the process of implementing a recycled

water program and Rancho Cucamonga is continuing to develop, he said.

Fontana Water Co., which will begin processing inland agency water this summer, doesn't expect its rates to be affected by the recently adopted plan, said Assistant General Manager Robert Young.

Fontana Water Co. is a unit of San Gabriel Valley Water Co.

Penalties could be imposed as early as July, although it is unlikely that allocations will be exceeded so quickly following this winter's rains, said Jeff Kightlinger, MWD general manager.

In addition, the MWD will consider adopting a general rate increase in March, Kightlinger said.