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SHORE LINE Published by The Town of Pine Knoll Shores In The Interests Of Its Citizens Post Office Box 757, Atlantic Beach, N. C. 28512 Volume V - Number 2 February, 1981; Noel Yancey - Editor PK5 residents should be prepared for a shock when they get their next water bills, fhe North Carolina Utilities Commission has given Carolina Vbter Service permission to hike its rates, WATER RATES Pat O'Brien, the con?)any treasurer, said the new rate schedule was effective February 1. For a residential customer the new SK3CR0CKET rate is $1,70 per 1,000 gallons plus per month. 0*Brien said that the charge to an average customer using 6,000 gallons per month would increase from $11*50 to $15*20. Since the company bills on a quarterly basis the average bill would rise from $3ii.30 to ;pU5.60, or 33 percent. O’Brien conceded that the percentage increase for customers using less than 6,000 gallons a month would be even greater*. Take one PKS family as an example* During the quarter ending December 31, this family used 10,810 gallons*, and the bill was $23.72. Under the new rates, the bill would have been $33.38* For the quarter ending rlarch 31 of l®st year, it used 30,690 gallons and got a bill for $53*i>U» Under the new schedule, the charge would have been ii>67*17. O'Brien said the Utilities Commission granted the increase oecause the coBpai^ had established that its “rate of return was too low.” He said that in 1982 Carolina lost $10,000 on its North Carolina operations, and has requested rates that would bring in a profit of $133,000 on an investment cf $3.U million. Rudy Shaw, engineer for the water division of the Utilities Commission's public staff which is sipposed to represent the public, said his office had conceded that Carolina Water Service “can justify the rates they are asking for." He noted that Carolina Aater Service, a sabsidiary of Utilities, Inc., of Northbrook, 111., operates water systems in uS i'lorth Carolina coir*i(iunitics ranging froia Sugar iiounLain to Pine Knoll Shores. He said the Utilities Commission had held six hearings on the company's rate request and that the TOWN OF PINE KNOLL SHORES Route 1 - Pine Knoll Blvd. Morehead City - Pine Knoll Shores, Bulk Rate U. S. POSTAGE PAID North Carolina, 28557 Permit #22 Morehead City, NC 28557 M/M JACK GOLDSTEIN R-3/125 loblolly DR MOREHEAD CITY NC 28557 AA
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