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BENTON – Water will be a bit more expensive for hundreds of thousands of people in southern Illinois.
The Rend Lake Conservancy District board passed a 2.5 percent rate hike Monday morning.
Rend Lake Conservancy District General Manager Keith Thomason said the increase gives the district flexibility down the road to complete repairs.
“The Rend Lake Conservancy District is attempting to make these repairs and never have a significant rate increase, which means we have to look into the future and that we will not ever go cash negative,” Thomason said. “We’re going to pay as we go and we are not going to take big debt which then burdens our children in the future years to pay that debt for us.”
Please click on the link for the full story from Joe Ragusa of WSIL-TV
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/37596447/rlcd-board-passed-25-percent-water-rate-hike
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