EWEB raises water and electric rates for next year
EUGENE, Ore. -- The Eugene Water and Electric Board said it will raise its rates for Eugene residents starting in 2013.
EWEB held a hearing on the proposed increase of around $8 on Tuesday night, addressing concerns for and against the rate hike.
After the hearing EWEB commissioners unanimously aproved the proposal.
Customers will likely pay $5 more per month for water and $4 more a month for electric.
The increase is set to take effect in February.
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hard time's and they just wont more we cut back what about the fat cat's !!!!!!!!
Why not just double the rates...there is no competition
 @Pit Bull Because they would be firebombed at that point.
Someone needs o pay for the new building and new equipment!! Anyone ever notice that all eweb trucks look so new? My car is over 10 years old, why cant eweb run old equipment? Other peoples money!!
I am as frustrated as anyone when it comes to dealing with EWEB. They are so condition to increase rates versus getting legislation in place to protect the ratepayers. What did Sandra bishop do anyway when she was their lobbyist.? They all sing the same ole song..."nothing we can do becase BPA has all  the power!"   with that kind of thinkng, the ratepayers will never, never, ever.ever get a decreae in rates! When this country goes over the fiscal cliff, I hope there's room for the EWEB commissioners!
Still no clear answer in why SUB hasn't raised rates like EWEB has..SUB gets the same power from Bonneville as EWEB does.The Mckenzie river has not been short of water..Really..just what is the real reason for these increases? maybe a little price gouging because they are a monopoly?Paying for that new building they didn't really need?Some sort of secret contract with a saw mill?Outrageous pay scale for employees?Greed? I personally think all of the above..
@Whitehawk Part of it could be that they have a different retirement plan, and it isn't PERS which is going to bankrupt the Government.
@souptonuts EWEB has PERS. And great health insurance, and retirees get part of their health insurance paid, depending on how many years they have worked, at least until they get medicare. Since many of them can retire at 58 under PERS Tier 1, EWEB thinks these retirees need help paying for health insurance until medicare kicks in. They are spoiled rotten.
So did the price of delivering us our water and electric go up? I guess that seems reasonable as everything else has gone up in price. Let's see, uh, 45 inches of rain so far this year... Â However, Oregon needs to stay the course and keep voting for Democrats. Government officials never put their own interest ahead of the people. I just cannot imagine them voting themselves pay raises and generous benefits. We need to look south towards California as that is the future and things are going great down there I hear.Â
they dont listen the public is way to unorginazed to ever oust anyone andf the people that make the rules there are the ones recieving the fat paychecks and benifits packages that those increases pay for.
@quasimodo the fox is guarding the hen house, what you gonna do, where will the Eugene residence get their precious power and water from. You can't dig a well and they have you where they want you. You have to use their power, buy a generator..not a real option, but can work for a price...we need answers not complaints..all we get is lip service for our dollars...from all sides..no answers. Organize it..somebody step up and lead.
imagine that