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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Plainfield Officials: No Water Rate Increase in 2013

Despite ever-increasing rates for Lake Michigan water, the village won't pass the increased cost on to residents this year.

The village is making good on a promise to break the cycle of increasing water rates. Director of Public Works Allen Persons on Monday announced that Plainfield water rates will not increase for fiscal year 2013-14. Water and sewer rates will stay steady — a welcome change from the increase residents saw in 2012, after the City of Chicago hiked the rate for Lake Michigan water by 25 percent. READ ABOUT THE 2012 INCREASE At last month’s State of the Village luncheon, Plainfield Mayor Mike Collins said he hoped the village would avoid another rate hike in 2013 after several years of increases. Join the conversation — sign up for the Plainfield Patch newsletter, and add Patch on Facebook. Despite yet another rate increase by the City of …

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Get Ready: There's a Big Water Hike Heading Plainfield's Way

The city of Chicago's 25 percent rate increase is being passed along to the municipalities that buy Lake Michigan water.

Thanks to a 25 percent increase in the cost of Lake Michigan water, the average Plainfield family will see its water rates go up by more than $8.50 a month next year. Public Works Director Allen Persons told the Plainfield Village Board Monday that what had been anticipated to be a small water rate hike this year, needed to finally catch up on the rate increases imposed by the city of Chicago in 2008, 2009 and 2010, is now going to be much higher. That Chicago would approve such a big jump less than two years after the three-year 40 percent hike caught the village by surprise, Persons acknowledged. “When a water rate increase goes into effect, it affects every single resident in the city of Chicago,” he said. On the plus side, there’s been…

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Plainfield Village Hall and It's Official -- Water/Sewer Rate Hike Kicks in May 1

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