New Year Brings Changes

Starting today, the new metered water rates come into effect. Water meters have been in place now for over a year and residents have been receiving quarterly reports about water use, although the old flat rates have remained in effect. That all changes today.

At the Society's AGM last August, new rates were approved by the members present. Those rates have been approved by the Water Comptroller's Office in Victoria and are now part of our water tariff.

This change will have several effects, the most important of which is the ability to charge for actual water used. Under this new system, some users will pay less and some will pay more, just as we have done for years with electricity and any other utility or commodity we use. It is also possible that the Society's costs will go down because past history elsewhere seems to indicate that water use drops when water meters are installed.

The meters will be read at the end of March and the newly designed water bills will go out in early April.