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Legal Notice
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
OF WEST VIRGINIA
CHARLESTON
CASE NO. 16-1676-PWD-30B
GAULEY RIVER PUBLIC SERVICE DISTRICT,
a public utility, Swiss, Nicholas County.
Rule 30B application to pass through increased cost
of purchased water from the Kanawha Falls Public Service District.
NOTICE OF FILING
NOTICE is hereby given that Gauley River Public Service District (Gauley River), a public utility, has filed an application with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia, to increase its rates and charges for furnishing water service to a total of 1,359 residential, commercial, industrial, and public authority customers in Nicholas County. Gauley River does not have any resale customers.
Commission Staff has reviewed the application of Gauley River and recommended that the Commission approve a rate increase allowing Gauley River to recover increased costs of purchased water it pays to Kanawha Falls Public Service District. By Order issued January 23, 2017, the Commission approved the Staff-recommended rates on an interim basis that increased rates by $0.64 per thousand gallons of metered water usage. The Commission also approved, on an interim basis, a Staff-proposed incremental leak adjustment rate of $6.65 per thousand gallons of metered water usage. The average monthly bill for the various classes of customers will be changed as follows:
Average Increase Percentage
Residential $ 1.86 4.10 percent
Commercial $ 1.47 4.10 percent
Industrial $ 10.69 4.64 percent
Public Authority $ 181.95 5.40 percent
The 30B procedure is designed to provide for a change in rates and charges to produce additional revenue sufficient, but not more than sufficient, to offset increased cost for water or for transportation of the same to utilities. Consequently, protest should be limited to the reasonableness of the cost offset and the method by which it is calculated. Anyone desiring to protest or intervene should file a written protest or notice of intervention within twenty (20) days following the date of this publication unless otherwise modified by Commission Order. Failure to timely intervene can affect your rights to protest any rate increases and to participate in future proceedings. Requests to intervene must comply with the Commission rules on intervention. All protests and interventions should be addressed to the Executive Secretary, Public Service Commission of West Virginia, P.O. Box 812, Charleston, WV 25323.
GAULEY RIVER PUBLIC SERVICE DISTRICT