Annual Utility Rate Survey: 2024 Results for Systems Serving Less than 5,000 & Regional Systems

The 2024 Annual Utility Rate Survey booklet will soon be mailed or hand delivered. It contains charts of water, wastewater, and stormwater rates, as well as a Total Utility Bill that includes water, wastewater, and stormwater. Since each community faces different challenges, it is often useful to look at the combined utility rate when comparing … Read more

Annual Utility Rate Survey: 2024 Observed Trends

AE2S Nexus has begun mailing or hand delivering the 2024 edition of the Annual Utility Rate Survey. We would like to thank the 226 participants this year. We received responses from 115 systems serving populations 5,000 and greater, 57 systems serving populations less than 5,000, and 54 Regional Rural systems.  Survey data was solicited from … Read more

Annual Utility Rate Survey: 2024 Results for Systems Serving 5,000 or Greater

The 23rd Edition of the Annual Utility Rate Survey will be distributed to the participants in the coming weeks.  Until then, we wanted to share a preliminary look at the results to help you understand how your rates compare to those of your peers.  We hope that the results are useful to systems throughout the … Read more

How do your rates compare? Find out by participating in the 24th Annual Utility Rate Survey!

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Check your email inbox or mailbox for the 24th Annual Utility Rate Survey questionnaire. The digital and print versions of the survey were sent to utilities on February 2nd. The deadline for participation is March 22, 2024.   Each year, AE2S conducts a survey of water, wastewater, stormwater, and solid waste utility rates throughout the region. Two unique reports … Read more

2023 Rate Survey Results: Full Cost Pricing

A utility’s cost of service is defined as a system’s total cost of providing service to its customers.  This generally includes operating expenses, maintenance expenses, debt service principal and interest payments, and adequate funding of systems. Appropriate funding of system renewal is often described as an annual investment in rate-funded capital, debt service principal, and … Read more