(Click on the image for the WSSC briefing and FAQs)
- This is the same briefing given on June 3rd at Obie Patterson's Community Meeting.
- Maryland Public Service Commission determined current WSSC rate structure unreasonable.
- Current 16-tier structure charges customers at their highest average daily consumption back to their "first drop" used.
- Current structure does not reflect cost of service.
- See The Washington Post article,"Meet the Maryland man who’s taking on one of the largest U.S. water utilities" for the background of this restructuring.
- WSSC expects to adopt the new rate structure in June 2018.
- WSSC is moving toward "smart" water meters that won't require meter readers. That will allow monthly billing instead of quarterly billing.