Mount Pleasant liquid consort announces newborn budget includes evaluate raise – Journal Important Internet

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Mount Pleasant liquid customers crapper wait their incoming calculate to be higher than connatural after a evaluate raise went into gist Monday.

Mount Pleasant Waterworks declared the liquid consort upraised rates by 8% as conception of the business assemblage 2025 budget.

MPW Commissioners authorised the evaluate raise at a June 17 meeting.

“The newborn rates emit MPW’s dedication to protecting open upbeat and the surround by finance in the restoration and equal of our infrastructure,” said MPW General Manager Allan Clum. “I poverty to impart the Commissioners and our body for their efforts throughout the ratemaking impact that started in May 2024.”

Some costs were enwrapped by utility including an process in the contractual evaluate of purchased water, accumulated shelter premiums, and assisting customers with affordability concerns, consort officials said.