Aqua Water Rates - 2025

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Introduction

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What follows is a series of tables showing the rate changes resulting from the rate case Aqua filed May-2023.  The new rates went into effect on February 22, 2025.  The main emphasis is on residential rates, but there is also information on other categories.  

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Aqua groups its customers into various rate zones.  The sections that follow details the data by rate zone.  To answer the question of how much is MY rate going to change, you need to know which rate zone you are in.  The vast majority (~95%) of Aqua's residential water customers are in rate zones 1 & 2 - and, the residential rates are the same in both zones.  If you need more information on rate zones pdf pages 16 - 19 of Aqua's compliance filing has all the details: (LINK).  The detailed tariffs then follow on pdf pages 21 - 31.  ​

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DSIC Note

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When Aqua reports the amount of the increase, it is based on current bills versus the new tariff rates.  However, the current bills include something called a "DSIC Charge".  DSIC = Distribution System Improvement Charge.  DSIC is a surcharge that gets added between rate increases.  Including the DSIC charge makes the increase look smaller.  But, that understates the true increase because new DSIC charges will be added before the next rate increase.  

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The rate increases in the tables that follow exclude the DSIC charges unless otherwise noted.  This gives the true increase since the last rate case.  ​​

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