Raleigh’s New Tiered Water Billing System Rewards Conservation
The City of Raleigh will introduce a new 3 tier water billing system that will reward those who use less water with lower prices. The city will also have a new billing system to go along with the change. The new system will come into effect in November.
The tiers work as follows:
Residential Water Rates Inside Raleigh and Garner City Limits
Tier 1 = 1- 4 CCF billed at $2.28 per CCF
Tier 2= 5 -10 CCF billed at $3.80 per CCF
Tier 3= 11+ CCF billed at $5.07 per CCF
Non-Residential Water Rate: $2.95
Irrigation Rate: $5.07
Raleigh and Garner residential customers only will be billed using a new, three-tiered billing structure with different rates for each level of consumption. Tiered billing has been introduced to encourage and reward water conservation.
• Those who use less water will pay less.
• Single-meter residences only will change to tiered billing.
• The new billing system will automatically adjust for the number of days billed, so that customers are billed in the correct usage tier.
Therefore, if you use less water, you’ll pay a cheaper price for the water you do use. One CCF = One hundred cubic feet, or 748 gallons of water and the City of Raleigh says on average, Raleigh residents use less than 6 CCF (4488 gallons) of water per month and many will fall into the bottom two tiers. Also, if you live outside of Raleigh/Garner area, you pay twice as much per CCF. A great advantage of “urban” living. But then again, that encourages city dwellers to use more water because it’s cheaper.
More info on the new system over at the City of Raleigh’s website.
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CtrlBurn
10/27 03:01 PM
The other part of the urban living tip is that you don’t have a stupid lawn to water, so that cuts down a lot on usage.
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Rob E.
10/27 03:27 PM
Sure, it sounds good, but remember when they said, “Conserve, conserve, conserve!” and we did, and then they said, “We aren’t making enough money now because everyone is conserving, so we need to raise the rates!”
I do like a system that encourages conservation, but the last time it didn’t seem to work out that way. If the costs associated with management of the system are dependent on volume, then this makes sense. If high use customers are going to be funding additional water resources, then maybe this makes sense. But if we continue to hear about a limited water supply without hearing about solutions in the works, or if the city then responds to lower water consumption with higher rates, then this may not end up being a positive move.
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WILLNCSU
10/28 02:32 PM
Water use is pretty inelastic, like cigarettes, use doesnt realy go down just because prices go up.
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