What affects BJWSA rates?
BJWSA is investing carefully today in technology, training, and equipment, so that the superior quality of drinking water and wastewater treatment systems will hold down future costs. However, certain characteristics of the BJWSA system and our lowcountry community impact our water and sewer rates: BJWSA is a non-profit, non-taxing, public utility that depends solely on the money received from customer payments, capacity fees, connection fees, and wholesale services for providing water and wastewater services. • We have been a rapidly growing community, rather than a stable population. To meet this growth, BJWSA has built major facilities in the last twelve years, requiring new debt to be repaid. Community growth also has meant road widening and bridge building, which has resulted in the costly moving of pipelines by BJWSA. • In order to protect our sensitive local waterways and the environment, BJWSA’s water reclamation facilities (wastewater treatment) must use expensive, very high l
