HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980 12-31 Maplewood raises sewer rates THE REVIEW Maplewood raises sewer rates
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The cost of everything seems to be The rates for an average duplex are is necessitated by the Metropolitan Waste According to a survey conducted by
rising these days and the Maplewood increasing $2.60 to $37.20 quarterly. Control Commission upping its fees Faust,the only neighboring communities
sanitary sewer service rates are no ex- Typical apartment, condominium and charged to the city. with lower sanitary sewer service rates
ception. mobile home fees are going up about$1.10 About two-thirds of the fees collected by are Little Canada and White Bear Lake.
The Maplewood City Council has ap- and will be$14.90 in 1981.Senior citizen Maplewood for sanitary sewer services go In Little Canada the owner of an average
proved a rate increase effective Jan.1 residential units paid$8.65 during 1980, directly to Metro Waste Control Corn- single family home pays$15 per quarter
that will hike the sanitary sewer service and will be paying$9.30 each quarter next mission. The commission governs the and in White Bear Lake the same dwelling
fee for an average single family home and year. Non-residential sanitary sewer rates charged to municipalities using the fee is$18.40 quarterly.
townhouse unit about$1.30 each quarter users also will be experiencing rate in- Pigs Eye disposal plant for sewage
above last year's rate.Under the new fee creases. treatment. ft also dictates that apart- In North St. Paul, a typical single-
schedule,these average residences will In a memorandum to the city council ments and condominiums can only be family home will be paying $21.80
pay$18.60 four times a year for sanitary members,Maplewood Finance Director charged a proportion of the fees collected quarterly in 1981,similar households in
sewer services. Dan Faust explains that the rate increase for single-family dwellings. Oakdale will be charged$18.80.