[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate charges in Rialto water bills

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bill of contention

Resident hot about higher water rates

By K. FRANKE SANTOS
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
November 23, 2004

RIALTO - Faith Jones wants to know why her water bill is so high.

The 55-year-old, who lives on a limited income, thinks that the water 
rate increase imposed in April, along with a surcharge to pay for both 
perchlorate cleanup and litigation, was too drastic.

Rialto resident Faith Jones questions why she is being charged monthly 
on her water bill for perchlorate cleanup.

"It's true they hadn't raised it in a long time, but they could have 
snuck up on that one instead of immediately going double," she said.

But the thing that most irritates her is the perchlorate charge, which 
she doesn't think she should pay. Last month, it made up about 15 
percent of her bill.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/digitalextra/environment/perchlorate/vt_stories/PE_News_Local_bperc23.5783c.html

--
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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