Halifax Water seeking rate hike to deal with growing budget deficit

[kzt79]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

Back-of-the-envelope math says that the average quarterly bill would increase these by $37 in the first year and another $47 on top of that in year two. My current quarterly bill is around $160 which I already thought was outrageous. These two bumps will make it approach $250/qtr which is nuts.

$1000/yr for residential water seems foolish.

Glad I'm on a well. Total spend over nearly 2 decades was around $2K to replace the pump which should last at least another 2 decades.