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Friday Nov 13 | Posted by: roboblogger

Less water usage blamed for possible rate increase in city

Full story: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority leaders blame fewer customers using less water for triggering a possible rate increase next year.

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Old Cynic

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Let me get this straight. We are asked to conserve, save, use less and save our way or life. THEN, we have to pay more because we're using less? Which of the Al Gore idiots put this great plan together? WTF?
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Just fleece the remaining residents.
‘Fleeced’ vows to pull the wool off taxpayers’ eyes

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Pittsburgh DUH!!

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piss and shit in a garbage can and let the mombacks take it...
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Monday Nov 16
 
More to the point is the city's incredibly high "loss" rate; only about a quarter of the water produced is billed.
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"Kenney sought to diffuse speculation Friday that a 5 percent rate increase next year would be required to compensate for higher-than-EXPECTED costs from a complicated, VARIABLE RATE BOND that soured because of the credit market collapse and recession."

Bwhahahaha.

"Dowd contends the authority should take money from $40 million it has in a reserve account that earns almost NO INTEREST to cover what could be a $9 million deficit in next year's $152 million budget."

More bwhahahaha...

Financial geniuses!
Brilliant!

Pittsburgh Democrats couldn't manage a lemonade stand but they'd find a way to tax it, create a vendor license for it, and institute an authority to enforce it.
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Krakus wrote:
More to the point is the city's incredibly high "loss" rate; only about a quarter of the water produced is billed.
Water, a subject close to my heart. The City could fix a lot of their problems by taking care of the abandoned houses, many of them have water supplies hooked up and they just run constantly. The Housing authority pays such a goofy rate that they might as well be getting it free. There have been so many "deals" cut over the years thats about half of what's filtered and distributed is done so without any type of bill. Add this to the aging distribution system that's way too big for the current city population and almost zero manufacturing need and you have the disaster that we now have.

Just another case of current political mis management of a very precious resource.
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Old Cynic wrote:
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Water, a subject close to my heart. The City could fix a lot of their problems by taking care of the abandoned houses, many of them have water supplies hooked up and they just run constantly. The Housing authority pays such a goofy rate that they might as well be getting it free. There have been so many "deals" cut over the years thats about half of what's filtered and distributed is done so without any type of bill. Add this to the aging distribution system that's way too big for the current city population and almost zero manufacturing need and you have the disaster that we now have.
Just another case of current political mis management of a very precious resource.
That would indeed begin to explain the atrocious water "loss" rate in the city authority I've read about.
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