Water rates to go up 5% in Apache Junction district
The base rate for customers of the Apache Junction Water District is slated to increase 5%, according to the proposed 2019-20 budget. A public hearing on next fiscal year’s $22,381,596 budget is 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, in the council chambers, 300 E. Superstition Blvd.
Customers outside the city limits, who are in unincorporated Pinal County or in county islands, are also to have a 5% increase in consumption rates, according to water district records.
The rate increases are needed in part to meet delivery and capital charges for Central Arizona Project water. Delivery charges are $155 per acre-foot and capital costs are $48 per acre-foot, Frank Blanco, water district director, said at the May 21 meeting of the Apache Junction Water District Utilities Community Facilities District board.
