Financing and Charges for Wastewater Systems
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Financing and Charges for Wastewater Systems

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Financing and Charges for Wastewater Systems

About this book

This 4th edition of Financing and Charges for Wastewater Systems provides an overview of current industry practices that should be considered for financing and establishing rates and charges for wastewater collection and treatment systems. In addition, this Manual of Practice reflects and is responsive to changes in the industry over the last decade that have occasioned a heightened awareness about wastewater utility financial management and the equitable distribution of cost responsibilities across customer groups or classes. These changes, including tightening environmental regulation and replacement of aging infrastructure, have resulted in a pronounced increase in the cost of wastewater services. At the same time, the portion of costs paid through federal and state assistance programs have declined, challenging the affordability of this vital service. In this context, guidance on wastewater rate-setting practices, and particularly the distribution of costs across user groups, is of critical importance.

As individual wastewater utilities address their financial management challenges, it is important that their practices for setting rates and charges be responsive to the unique circumstances and values of the communities they serve. Accordingly, this manual offers industry-accepted guidance in addressing these challenges without prescribing specific methods. In many instances, acceptable methodological alternatives are presented.

Financing and Charges for Wastewater Systems is structured to provide the reader with an overview of financing mechanisms for wastewater systems and a framework for development of wastewater rates and charges.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. CONTENTS
  5. LIST OF FIGURES
  6. LIST OF TABLES
  7. PREFACE
  8. Chapter 1: Introduction
  9. Chapter 2: Institutional Issues
  10. Chapter 3: Financial Management and Accounting for Wastewater Systems
  11. Chapter 4: Financing Capital Improvements
  12. Chapter 5: Determination of Revenue Requirements
  13. Chapter 6: Allocating Costs of Services to Cost-Causative Components
  14. Chapter 7: Distribution of Costs-of-Service to Customer Classes
  15. Chapter 8: Development and Design of a Schedule of Rates and Charges
  16. Chapter 9: Wet Weather Financing and Cost Recovery
  17. Chapter 10: System Development Charges
  18. Chapter 11: Wet Weather Financing and Cost Recovery
  19. Chapter 12: Affordability
  20. Chapter 13: Rates for Reuse or Reclaimed Water
  21. Chapter 14: Emerging Financing Alternatives
  22. Appendix A: Utility Basis Revenue Requirements and Cost
  23. Appendix B: Municipal Utility Case Law
  24. Index