Affordability Concerns How much would the sewer cost in a trailer park on fixed income earnings?
• The policies for distributing costs among the users of the sewer system will be determined in the upcoming preliminary design phase. Further analysis will help determine if it would be possible to calculate each mobile home as an equivalent residential unit (ERU), or if the mobile home park would be considered a commercial property and calculated as such (thus potentially making mobile home units count as less than one ERU). Depending on the flexibility, it might be possible to spread out the cost and improve affordability. It is fairly common that a trailer park is considered a commercial account and charged based on the water usage for the whole park, and not as individual units. This can reduce costs among all of the units.
