Sewer rates in Nevada County, outside Nevada City and Grass Valley, may soon go up for the first time in more than a decade. Brad Torres is the Wastewater Operations Manager with the county’s Sanitation District Number One. He says the adjustments would help fund rising operation and construction costs, among other expenses…

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And that study proposes various increases in ten zones over the next five years. That covers 56-hundred customers. In Lake Wildwood, Torres says, for the 2021-2022 fiscal year, starting July first, it would be another 118 dollars. Rates would rise 207 dollars in Lake of the Pines and 135 dollars in Penn Valley…

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Torres says rate studies will now be conducted every five years. Notices are being sent to property owners this week. A public hearing has been scheduled by the Sanitation District’s Board of Directors on June 22nd.