LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- After hearing from customers, Louisville MSD is delaying and reducing its proposed rate hike.
The original proposed 4.9% increase was expected to start this Friday, Aug. 1.
MSD said Monday the board approved a reduced rate increase of 3.9%, and will give customers another month to prepare so they can find ways to get help paying their bills if they needed.
"We understand that no one ever wants rates to go up and have heard from the community and are making every effort to reduce the impact on our customers,” Tony Parrott, executive director of MSD, said in a news release Monday. “At the same time, investment is still needed to support the health, safety, and protection of waterways that are the backbone of our community’s quality of life. We will shift some capital needs to future budget years to lessen the rate increase we ask of our customers this year.”
Jefferson County residents will have to pay, on average, $3.11 more per month when the hike takes effect Sept. 1. Oldham County residents will pay, on average, $1.57 more per month.
Oldham County rates are different from Jefferson County because MSD is still operating under a "previously approved rate schedule set forth by the Oldham County Fiscal Court when it managed wastewater services" before MSD took over. MSD said its rates are higher right now, and that the long-term rate schedule will "eventually equalize with" Jefferson County's.
MSD said with the lower rate increase, "a number of capital improvement projects planned across the service area" will be reprioritized. The plan is to put more than $302 million into supporting those projects. Those include the Paddy's Run Flood Pumping Station, Morris Forman Water Quality Treatment Center and Odor Control Improvements.
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