PSC Case No 15 0674 WS D

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
OF WEST VIRGINIA
CHARLESTON
CASE NO. 15-0674-WS-D
WEST VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER COMPANY
Application to change depreciation rates.
CASE NO. 15-0675-S-42T
WEST VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER COMPANY
Rule 42T tariff filing to increase sewer rates and charges.
and
CASE NO. 15-0676-W-42T
WEST VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER COMPANY
Rule 42T tariff filing to increase water rates and charges.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT HEARINGS
AND EVIDENTIARY HEARING
On April 30, 2015, West Virginia-American Water Company (WVAWC) tendered for filing revised tariff sheets reflecting increased water rates and charges of approximately $35,472,154 annually (a 28.18 percent increase) for furnishing potable water to approximately 168,000 customers in Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Harrison, Jackson, Kanawha, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mercer, Putnam, Raleigh, Roane, Summers, Wayne and Webster Counties.
On the same date, WVAWC filed revised tariff sheets reflecting increased sewer rates and charges of $176,895 annually (a 22.3 percent increase) for furnishing sewer utility service to 1,050 customers in Fayette County, and an application to increase depreciation rates under Rule 20 of the Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure, 150 C.S.R. Series 1 (Procedural Rules), effective on the same date that its revised water and sewer rates go into effect.
As of June 22, 2015, WVAWC was to have completed the public notice of the proposed rate changes and the opportunity to protest and/or intervene by newspaper publication and bill inserts to customers, as required by Commission Rules and Commission Order issued May 26, 2015.
By Order issued May 27, 2015, the Commission (i) made WVAWC a respondent in these proceedings, (ii) consolidated the three cases, (iii) suspended the effective date of the proposed increased rates and charges through Wednesday, February 24, 2016; (iv) granted a waiver to allow WVAWC additional time to provide individual notice; (v) established the completion date for individual customer notice; (vi) set an intervention date of July 29, 2015; and (vii) granted the CAD request to intervene.
In addition to the CAD intervention, the Commission has granted two additional requests to intervene filed by the Kanawha County Commission and the Regional Development Authority of Charleston, Kanawha County and the Advocates for a Safe Water System. Commission Orders June 26, 2015, and June 29, 2015.
The Commission will hold the following afternoon and evening public comment hearings and the evidentiary hearing:
Wednesday, September 30, 2015    Public comment hearings (1:00 p.m. and
6:00 p.m.) at the Lewis County Courthouse,
Old Circuit Courtroom, 2nd Floor, 110
Center Avenue, Weston, WV.
Thursday, October 1, 2015    Public comment hearings (1:00 p.m. and
6:00 p.m.) at 519 John Marshall Drive,
Huntington, WV
Wednesday, October 7, 2015    Public comment hearings (1:00 p.m. and
6:00 p.m.) at the Fayette County
Courthouse, Circuit Courtroom, 100 Court
Street, Fayetteville, WV
Thursday, October 8, 2015    Public comment hearings (1:00 p.m. and
6:00 p.m.) at the Mercer County
Courthouse, Judge Sadler’s Courtroom, 2nd
Floor, 1501 W. Main Street, Princeton,
Monday, October 26, 2015    Public comment hearing at 6:00 p.m. at the
Public Service Commission, Howard M.
Cunningham Hearing Room, 201 Brooks
Street, Charleston, WV
Tuesday, October 27, 2015    Start of Evidentiary hearing at 9:30 a.m.,
Public Service Commission, 201 Brooks
Street, Charleston, WV. Public comment
will be heard at the beginning of this hearing.
Interested persons may attend any of the public comment hearings and make public comment. Members of the public may also observe the evidentiary hearing.
WEST VIRGINIA-AMERICAN WATER COMPANY