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2019 Rate Survey Preview

Advisory Board Meeting November 21, 2019

Then & Now

3.07%

(FY18-FY19)

3.21%

(CY 2018)

MWRA Wholesale Assessment Increase Average MWRA Retail Rate Increase

Average MWRA Service Area Combined Retail Cost (120 HCF) Adjusted Average MWRA Service Area Combined Retail Cost

3.02%

(FY19-FY20)

3.54%

(CY 2019)

$1,609

(per year)

$1,660

(per year)

$880

(per year)

$867

(per year)

2018 2019

68 HCF/

year

64 HCF/

year

Adjusted Data

• Calculated by MWRA
• Residential usage is based primarily on total residential consumption

reported by each community in their 2018 Annual Public Water Supply Annual Statistical Report filed with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

• Residential data only

Adjusted Data

Belmont: $1,714.81 (80 HCF/year) Burlington: $171.76 (53 HCF/year) Cambridge: $587.00 (40 HCF/year) Lexington: $1,438.52 (104 HCF/year)

120 120 HCF Data

• Industry standard per AWWA
• Standardized way to compare communities

Average MWRA Service Area Combined Retail Cost (120 HCF) $1,660

(per year)

120 120 HCF Data

2010 – 2019

$406 32%

Water

Dark Blue: MWRA full water communities Light Blue: MWRA partial water communities

Average Annual Retail Water Bill (120 HCF) for MWRA Service Area:

$641.82

Dedham-Westood: $642 Northborough: $643 Canton: $643 Reading: $1,244.40 Winthrop: $1,374.00 Everett: $291.60 Winchester: $312.80

Sewer

Average Annual Retail Sewer Bill (120 HCF) for MWRA Service Area:

$1,068.18

Framingham: $1,034 Brookline: $1,067 Canton: $1,073 Belmont: $1,622.20 Ashland: $1,649.60 Woburn: $256.52 Clinton: $281.64

Combined

Average Retail Combined Bill (120 HCF) for MWRA Service Area:

$1,659.64

Norwood: $1,625.40 Watertown: $1633.20 Walpole: $1634.06 Belmont: $2,568.00 Winthrop: $2,748.00 Woburn: $586.30 Burlington: $631.36

3.54%

Revere: -2% Brookline: -2% Peabody: +25% Winthrop: +36%

Win inthrop Data

• 2018 Survey: Water ($6.91/HCF)+Sewer ($9.99/HCF) =Combined(16.90/HCF)
• Now using a single rate/ single bill for water & sewer to

reflect a combined enterprise fund

• AB formula is splitting HCF use between water and
• sewer. It is possible this rate will increase

Local l Data

Water Sewer Combined Change Abington $698.00 $640.00 $1,338.00 6.4% Agawam $317.20 $467.20 $784.40 0.0% Ayer $354.40 $988.00 $1,342.40 2.6% Beverly $364.80 $673.20 $1,038.00 0.0% Brockton $651.31 $446.00 $1,097.31 5.7% Danvers $899.20 $822.00 $1,721.20 7.5% Fairhaven $681.35 $907.80 $1,589.15 1.1% Fall River $444.80 $657.60 $1,102.40 2.2% Fitchburg $488.28 $906.24 $1,394.52 0.0% Gloucester $763.20 $1,334.70 $2,097.90 0.8% Haverhill $374.51 $658.98 $1,033.49 4.3% Holyoke $423.81 $486.00 $909.81 0.0% Hudson $534.60 $886.80 $1,421.40 9.6% Lawrence $372.00 $402.00 $774.00 0.0% Lowell $256.56 $561.72 $818.28 0.0% Medfield $497.66 $694.62 $1,192.28 3.4% New Bedford $422.80 $715.88 $1,138.68 0.0% North Reading $1,048.30 Not Sewered $1,048.30 0.0% Salem $397.20 $821.30 $1,218.50 1.3% Shrewsbury $533.03 $795.00 $1,328.03 1.2% Springfield $436.18 $663.94 $1,100.11 4.0% Tewksbury $962.44 $848.60 $1,811.04 2.1% AVERAGE $541.89 $732.27 $1,274.16 2.5%

COMPARATIVE ANNUAL RESIDENTIAL WATER AND SEWER CHARGES FOR SELECTED NON-MWRA COMMUNITIES IN MASSACHUSETTS 2019

Water and sewer charges based on an annual water consumption of 120 HCF ≈ 90 kgal Average does not include unavilable data or non-sewered communities.

Local l Data

• Expanded local table for 2019 survey
• Addresses limitation
• 200+ communities in new local table

Local l Data

Abington Acton Acushnet Adams Agawam Amesbury Amherst Andover Arlington Ashburnham Ashby Ashfield Ashland Athol Attleboro Auburn Avon Ayer Barnstable Barre Barre Becket Bedford Belchertown Bellingham Belmont Berkley Berlin Bernardston Beverly Billerica Blackstone Blandford Bolton Boston Bourne Boxborough Boylston Braintree Brewster Bridgewater Brockton Brookfield Brookline Buckland Burlington Cambridge Canton Carlisle Carver Charlemont Charlton Chatham Chelmsford Chelsea Chicopee Chilmark Clarksburg Clinton Cohasset Colrain Concord Conway Cummington Dalton Danvers Dartmouth Dedham Deerfield Dennis Dighton Douglas Dover Dracut Dudley Dunstable Duxbury East Bridgewater East Brookfield East Longmeadow Eastham Easthampton Easton Edgartown Essex Everett Fairhaven Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg Florida Foxborough Framingham Franklin Freetown Gardner Georgetown Gill Gloucester Goshen Gosnold Grafton Granby Granville Great Barrington Greenfield Groton Groveland Hadley Halifax Hamilton Hampden Hancock Hanover Hanson Hardwick Harvard Harwich Hatfield Haverhill Hawley Heath Hingham Hinsdale Holbrook Holden Holland Holliston Holyoke Hopedale Hopedale Hopkinton Hubbardston Hudson Hull Huntington Ipswich Kingston Lakeville Lancaster Lanesborough Lawrence Lee Leicester Lenox Leominster Leverett Lexington Lincoln Littleton Longmeadow Lowell Ludlow Lunenburg Lynn Lynnfield Malden Manchester-by-the- Sea Mansfield Marblehead Marion Marlborough Marshfield Mashpee Mattapoisett Maynard Medfield Medford Medway Melrose Mendon Merrimac Methuen Middleborough Middlefield Middleton Milford Millbury Millis Milton Monroe

Local l Data

Montgomery Mount Washington Nahant Nantucket Natick Needham New Ashford New Bedford New Braintree New Marlborough New Salem Newbury Newburyport Newton Norfolk North Adams North Andover North Attleborough North Brookfield North Reading Northampton Northborough Northbridge Northfield Norton Norwell Norwood Oak Bluffs Oakham Orange Orleans Otis Oxford Palmer Paxton Peabody Pelham Pembroke Pepperell Peru Princeton Provincetown Quincy Randolph Raynham Reading Rehoboth Revere Rochester Rockland Rockport Rowe Rowley Royalston Russell Rutland Salem Salisbury Sandisfield Sandwich Saugus Savoy Scituate Seekonk Sharon Shirley Shrewsbury Shutesbury Somerset Somerville South Hadley Southampton Southborough Southbridge Southwick Spencer Springfield Sterling Stockbridge Stoneham Stoughton Stow Sturbridge Sudbury Sunderland Sutton Swampscott Swansea Taunton Templeton Tewksbury Tisbury Tolland Topsfield Townsend Truro Tyngsborough Tyringham Upton Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walpole Waltham Ware Wareham Warren Warwick Washington Watertown Wayland Webster Wellesley Wellfleet Wendell Wenham West Boylston West Bridgewater West Brookfield West Newbury West Springfield West Stockbridge West Tisbury Westborough Westfield Westford Westhampton Westminster Weston Westport Westwood Weymouth Whately Whitman Wilbraham Williamsburg Williamstown Wilmington Winchendon Winchester Windsor Winthrop Woburn Worcester Worthington Wrentham

National Data

Water Sewer Combined Change Austin, TX $685.42 $931.88 $1,617.31 3.6% Boston, MA $652.66 $907.31 $1,559.97 2.8% Columbus, OH $535.93 $569.32 $1,105.25 2.5% Dallas, TX $321.24 $545.16 $866.40 0.6% Detroit, MI $395.64 $755.44 $1,151.09 3.0% Flint, MI $1,017.60 $930.96 $1,948.56 0.0% Fort Worth, TX $444.80 $567.32 $1,012.13 2.1% Honolulu, HI $464.28 $1,263.96 $1,728.24 0.0% Houston, TX $524.56 $666.95 $1,191.50 3.0% Indianapolis, IN $544.99 $656.36 $1,201.35 0.0% Jacksonville, FL $337.93 $686.54 $1,024.46 0.0% Los Angeles, CA $720.35 $649.01 $1,369.36 5.9% Milwaukee, WI $369.28 $267.59 $636.87 3.0% MWRA Service Area $647.73 $1,011.90 $1,659.64 3.5% New Orleans, LA $768.57 $849.13 $1,617.70 8.4% New York, NY $468.00 $758.88 $1,226.88 1.2% Newark, NJ $352.44 $457.06 $809.50 0.0% Philadelphia, PA $617.63 $467.95 $1,085.58 3.0% Portland, ME $374.67 $1,217.88 $1,592.55 2.1% Providence, RI $525.29 $641.72 $1,167.01 0.0% Saint Louis, MO $307.76 $895.36 $1,203.12 7.3% Saint Paul, MN $472.29 $541.63 $1,013.93 4.9% San Antonio, TX $667.49 $482.76 $1,150.25 12.0% San Diego, CA $1,156.95 $594.17 $1,751.12 5.8% San Francisco, CA $1,223.65 $1,622.05 $2,845.70 5.0% San Jose, CA $1,098.52 $483.14 $1,581.66 3.2% Seattle, WA $881.50 $1,809.02 $2,690.53 9.2% Washington, DC $573.54 $1,037.62 $1,611.17 4.0% AVERAGE $612.53 $795.29 $1,407.81 3.7%

COMPARATIVE ANNUAL RESIDENTIAL WATER & SEWER CHARGES FOR MAJOR UNITED STATES CITIES 2019

Water and sewer charges based on an annual water consumption of 120 HCF ≈ 90 kgal Note: MWRA Service Area averages exclude non-sewered communities.

Updates & Trends

Tier Changes: Brookline, Peabody, Somerville, Walpole Billing Cycles: Walpole Nahant Billing Winthrop Billing

His istoric Data Table

New ways to analyze historic data

Next xt Steps

• Data/ proof page verification
• Electronic copies only
• Community executive summary

MWRA Advisory Board Meeting Wellesley Free Library November 21, 2019

Proposed Changes to Wastewater Metering Sit ites

MWRA Advisory Board Meeting Wellesley Free Library November 21, 2019