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<br />Gallons Used per Year by Number of Households <br /> <br /> 350 <br /> 300 <br /> 250 <br />'" <br />"C <br />"0 <br />"" 200 <br />~ <br />'" <br />~ <br />0 <br />:I: 150. <br />'0 <br />0 <br />z <br /> 100. <br /> 50. <br /> <br /> <br />o <br />UPlf's,ooo 30.000 45,000 60.000 75,000 SO,OOO 105,000 120,000 135.000 150.000 165.000 180.000 195,000 210,000 225.000 240.000 255.000 <br /> <br /> <br />Usage (Gallons per Year) <br /> <br />WAC Fees (WaleI' Access Fees or hook-up charge.l) are paid by new construction of <br />homes and businesses at the time of a building pemlit and are based upon residential <br />equivalents of usage. These fees typically are intended to cover the cost of expanding the <br />water utility system to the users who will benefit from it. The City currently does not <br />charge a WAC fee. We would recommend that the City establish hook up charges for in- <br />fill development and for business expansion. <br /> <br />We would also recommend that the City study the costs of extending city utilities to the <br />TCAAP area and detemline and adopt a TCAAP WAC fee. This fee would be applicable <br />to the TCAAP area only and would be designed to recover the cost or a portion of the <br />cost to extend services to that area, according to City Council policy direction. <br /> <br />The City does, however charge a water connection fee of $80 and is designed to cover the <br />cost of the connection from the property to the water main. <br /> <br />Tiered Rale Syslem <br /> <br />Beginning in 2009, we are recommending that the City consider revisiting its usage fee <br />structure. <br /> <br />With a multi tiered rate system, the typical resident will pay morc pcr gallon for water <br />used for sprinkling than they will for water used in daily activities. Most metro area <br />suburbs have adopted a tiered rate system for the following reasons: <br /> <br />J <br /> <br />5 <br />