Joe Moore isn't shy about telling Avon Park's city council he's not happy with the water rate increase. ...more

November 3, 2009

Drivers should brace for downtown streets to be torn up over the next year as work gets under way today to replace miles of water pipelines, some more than a century old. ...more

October 5, 2009

Raise Water Rates Faced with water shortages, my town, Cape May, N.J., a shore resort, doubles the water rate charge from April through September, the high time of the year for tourism. It works. ...more

March 30, 2009

Commercial trash rates will go up in the city this year, but water and sewer rates will not. ...more

October 8, 2008

Commercial trash pickup will go up. ...more

October 8, 2008

Some Pasco residents served by Aqua Utilities used interesting phrases to describe their water. ...more

September 27, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS Municipal water and sewer rates could rise by slightly more than 10 percent during the city's coming fiscal year. ...more

August 25, 2008

A Florida Public Service Commission vote on Aloha Utilities' first round of proposed water rate increases has been postponed until next month. ...more

January 29, 2008

LAKE PLACID — In July, the 70 customers of Sebring Lakes won their water rate battle with Aqua Utilities, a Philadelphia water company. Some customers who were paying $10 or $20 a month were suddenly getting bills for $180 or $190 a month. But although the Florida Public Service Commission demanded a refund for Sebring Lakes residents, the money still hasn't come, said Jane Barnard, who lives on Tangelo. "They have not paid back one single penny," said Barnard, a senior citizen who lives with her husband, Floyd, in the small subdivision between Sebring and Lake Placid, just a block from U.S. 27. The residents are mostly middle-class retirees who live in two-or-three bedroom concrete block homes. ...more

November 16, 2007