From The Fort Morgan Times (Dan Barker):
At a special meeting Wednesday night, the council agreed to raise the minimum clean water rate from $36 a month to $49 a month starting Jan. 1, but not to change the sewer rates. Eventually, the rate will have to rise to about $80 a month in order to repay a USDA loan which is paying for the water project, said Wiggins Town Administrator Bill Rogers. But that figure is just a guess. When the project was first initiated, it was believed that each household would have to pay $93 as a basic water rate, but a grant from the USDA helped cut that cost, he said.