Water Rates to Rise 3.4% as of July 1
Capistrano Valley Water District customers will soon be paying a little more for their service.
The district’s directors on Tuesday approved a water rate increase of 3.4%, effective July 1. The average residential water bill will rise by $1, to $30.75 a month, district officials said.
The increase will be the first for the Capistrano district’s 30,000 customers in two years.
General Manager Ray Auerbach said the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which supplies the Capistrano district’s water, has raised its rates by 7% during that time.
Last year the district absorbed the added cost, he said, but it cannot afford to do so this year.
The directors also voted to modify the tiered water rate structure. Auerbach said the water allotment scale will relate to actual weather conditions, rather than the monthly forecasts used now. The new rates take effect July 1.
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