CWA approves rate increases

The San Diego County Water Authority board approved rates and charges for the Calendar Year 2011 which increase water purchase rates and other charges.

The increase was approved by a weighted 86.40% SDCWA board vote June 24. CWA board members Rua Petty of Rainbow, Mark Muir of Olivenhain, Frank Hilliker of Lakeside, Dan McMillan of Padre Dam, Bud Pocklington of South Bay, and Ron Morrison of National City voted against the higher rates.

The CWA obtains most of its supply from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, whose April 2010 approval of a Calendar Year 2011 rate increase...