The Remington Water District in 1999 had user rates of $25 per 15,000 gallons as a base. The district has raised it’s rates one time to $35 per 25,000 gallons as a base rate. The board has always wanted to encourage water usage by implementing an $0.80 per 1000 gallons between 25k-100k gallons used and then $0.60 per 1000 gallons over 100k gallons. Unfortunately, those low rates is what caused us to not meet fire flow (1,000 gal per minute for an hour) and peak water demand in Aug of 2018. EVERYONE was watering!
Those 3-5 days of water usage is what DEQ is using to determine that we are at capacity. Even though, the system was originally designed for 460 connections and we have 367 connections.