AG Urges Rejection of Water Price Hike
ATTORNEY GENERAL TONG URGES REJECTION OF $25 MILLION RATE HIKE FOR CONNECTICUT WATER CUSTOMERS (Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong today filed a brief with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority urging rejection of an unjustified and unaffordable $25 million rate hike request from the Connecticut Water Company. If approved, the request would raise rates by more than 18 percent, or approximately $156 per year for the average customers. CT Water serves 108,000 water customers in 60 communities across Connecticut, plus 3,000 wastewater customers in Southbury. “Connecticut families pay far too much for their utilities as it is, and we cannot afford unjustified double-digit increases. We combed through every page of CT Water’s application, and we found $19 million in…