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Rv Travel ^ | January 17, 2023 | Russ and Tiña De Maris

[steve86]

Our base fee residential electric base fee seems to be much lower than Chelan County's, so their low kwh charge is a bit misleading. I will go back to make sure I interpreted this correctly.

"Customer Charge:

Single-phase service: $ 0.69/day
Multi-phase service: $0.98/day
Monthly Energy Charge: $ 0.0741/kWh"

[steve86]

Yes, I checked my last utility statement. $21 base fee plus $23 utility tax. Not $135 like I think Chelan County is.

[fireman15]

It is maddening. Most of the towns in Washington see utility bills as an opportunity to tack on a bunch of taxes without and minimum fees without people having any real opportunity to object.

Just the “storm water” runoff fee for our house and property is now $110 every two months. Our property is where the storm water from the streets and surrounding properties run to. We have no storm drains. Twenty years ago, we paid about that amount every two months for electricity, water, sewer, and garbage. Now they tack on all these extra fees to the point where our bill is hundreds of dollars every two months even if we use nothing.