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Show Water rates increased by Centerville City council the State Board of Water Resources. Each year, the increased revenue will help fund other culinary water improvements. About $500,000 in projects wiU be worked on and completed this year, starting in spring. Those projects pro-jects will include water lines in front of Centerville Junior High between be-tween 400-700 South Main, water line replacement along 300 East from Pages Lane to Porter Lane, water line along 600 South and east of the junior high for better fire line flow, a 14-inch upsizing to the Pages Lane area, and well production produc-tion expenditures. By TOM HARALDSEN CENTERVILLE The city's culinary water rates will increase on this year's first water bills, which residents will probably receive after January 25. The final action taken by the outgoing city council just prior to the holidays will help fund over $2 million in improvements to the city's culinary water system, improvements im-provements that will begin this year and take 10-13 years to complete. Action was taken after an extensive exten-sive study of the system and possible possi-ble ways to pay for the repairs. A citizen's ad hoc committee took recommendations for funding the improvements to the council last fall. A public hearing was held in November to receive additional input in-put from the citizenry. Under the adopted plan, the previous base rate of $6.50 per month was raised to $11.75. In addition, ad-dition, a usage fee will be added based on consumption. That rate will be 60 cents per thousand gallons for amounts between 0-5000 0-5000 gallons, 80 cents per thousand for amounts between 6-10,000, and $1.00 per thousand for usage over 10,000. That means the average water bill in Centerville will rise from $9.70 to about $16.35 per month, a 69 percent increase. The new rates will raise nearly $240,000 annually for culinary water projects. Those funds will be used to payback a $300,000 bond the city is still trying to secure from |