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PUBLIC NOTICE OF SEWER RATES OF THE TOWN OF GRANTSVILLE

TARIFF FORM NO. 12

​NOTICE is hereby given that the TOWN OF GRANTSVILLE enacted an ordinance on May 1, 2023 containing increased rates and charges for furnishing sewer service to approximately 350 customers at Grantsville and vicinity, in Calhoun County, West Virginia.

​The proposed rates and charges will become effective as provided in the ordinance unless otherwise ordered by the Public Service Commission, and will produce the following additional revenue annually:

Effective 45 days after enactment($) Revenue Increase(%) Revenue Increase
             $63,000                60%

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​The average monthly bill for the various classes of customers will be changed as follows:

​​​​(Effective 45 Days After Enactment)

Present RatesProposed Rates  ($) Rate Increase       (%) Rate Increase
        25.01     40.01          15.00                  60%

​The Town has no resale customers.

​The increase shown is based on averages of all customers.  The requested rates and charges are only a proposal and are subject to change (increases or decreases) by the Public Service Commission in its review of this filing.  The public Service Commission shall review and approve or modify the increased rates only upon the filing of a petition within thirty (30) days of adoption of the ordinance changing said rates and charges by:

(1) Any customer aggrieved by the changed rates or charges who presents to the Public Service Commission a petition signed by not less than twenty five percent (25%) of the customers served by the municipality operated electric or natural gas public utility or municipally owned water and or sewer utility having less than four thousand five hundred (4,500) customers and $3 million dollars annual combined gross revenues or twenty five percent (25%) of the membership of the electric, natural gas or telephone cooperative residing within the state;

(2) Any customer who is served by a municipally owned electric or natural gas public utility and who resides outside corporate limits and who is affected by the change in the rates or charges and who presents to the Public Service Commission a petition alleging discrimination between customers within and without the municipal boundaries.  The petition shall be accompanied by evidence of discrimination; or

(3) Any customer or group of customers of the municipally owned electric or natural gas public utility who is affected by the change in rates who reside within the municipal boundaries and who present a petition to the Public Service Commission alleging discrimination between a customer or group of customers and other customers of the municipal utility.  The petition shall be accompanied by evidence of discrimination.

All petitions should be addressed to the Executive Secretary, Public Service Commission of West Virginia, 201 Brooks Street, PO Box 812, Charleston, WV 25323.

​A complete copy of the proposed rates, as well as a representative of the utility to provide any information requested concerning it, is available to all customers, prospective customers, or their agents at the Town City Building, Grantsville, West Virginia.

​A copy of the proposed rates is available for public inspection at the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Public Service Commission at 201 Brooks Street, PO Box 812, Charleston, WV 25323.

​​​​​​​TOWN OF GRANTSVILLE

​​​​​​​Robert Petrovsky, Mayor of Grantsville

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