The City of Garnett will likely increase water rates in order to help pay for the debt on the city’s proposed new water treatment facility. Through a Rate Analysis Exercise with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to ensure the city had a rate structure that could handle to cost of the project. They found they would need an Ordinance to increase the city’s water rates.
The city last raised water rates in 2018 to start accruing funds to pay preliminary engineering and other costs for the project that would build a new plant for water treatment at Crystal Lake, cost estimated to be $13 million. Rate discussions have been common across all city utilities the past year, including the second of a three-phase electric increase approved at last week’s Commission meeting.
