Click the link to read the article on The Pagosa Springs Sun website (Derek Kutzer). Here’s an excerpt:
After a Pagosa Springs Sanitation General Improvement District (PSS- GID) Board of Directors special meet- ing on Dec. 5, it appears that the board is poised to raise its fee rates to $66.50 — the rate recommended by the hired consultant Roaring Fork Engineering, who analyzed the town’s wastewater system and conducted a rate study analysis for the district.
The rate for the district’s customers is currently set at $53.50, but after problems with a wastewater conveyance system that sends wastewater several miles uphill to the Vista wastewater treatment plant (run by the Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District, or PAWSD), as well as confronting the reality of aging infrastructure, the board is “seeing increased operational costs and mounting costs for capital projects tomaintainandplanforfutureneeds,” states agenda documentation.
Interim Town Manager Greg Schulte explained that the board is faced with three choices, and that all of them include raising rates. The board could choose to raise rates to the $57.25 number that’s in the 2024 budget draft; it could raise them to the level recommended by Roaring Fork, $66.50; or it could arrive at a number somewhere in the middle.
fyi, that’s a cool historic photo of the springs.
Thanks, I love the old photos. It was a bit harder than pointing your iPhone and snapping a photo.