The Ansonia Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) will hold a public hearing Wednesday (July 2) on proposed water fees.
The hearing will take place in the Erlingheuser Room on the second floor of City Hall at 6:45 p.m., to be followed by a meeting of the WPCA.
According to the agenda for the hearing, the WPCA has proposed a rate of $3.05 per 100 cubic feet of water used, plus a $50 capital fee.
For well users, the authority has proposed a fee of $258 plus a capital fee of $50, for a total of $308.
Meeting minutes on the city’s website indicate those rates would represent no change from current fees.
The agenda for the hearing on the city’s website, which is posted below, features a parenthetical directing readers to “See attached fee schedule,” but no such addendum was attached as of noon July 1.
Click here to read a document titled “Understanding Your WPCA Bill” from the city’s website.
At a May 7 WPCA meeting, members voted unanimously to levy a fee of $270 per unit for a “sewer project” after a public hearing at which no one from the public offered input, according to meeting minutes.
The minutes from the May 7 meeting indicate there was no discussion of that fee by WPCA members, but according to the minutes from the WPCA’s April meeting, the ctiy’s sewer administrator said the $270 per unit fee was the current rate and would remain unchanged, and indicated the money is going toward repaying a loan the authority took out with the state of Connecticut that calls for payments to the tune of $180,000 per month.
