Customer charges
The same cost recovered four ways: an upfront fee, a connection charge, a monthly rate, or a yearly assessment. Compare what each customer would pay.
Financing alternatives
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Debt service is grossed up by this ratio in the requirement%
Scenario cash flow
Annual revenue requirement versus modeled recovery
Requirement = O&M + renewals + debt service × 1.25 − non-connection revenue. Nominal dollars.
Nothing for customers to coverIn every year, revenue that does not come from customers covers the loan payments and running costs, or there are none, so there is nothing left for a customer charge to recover.
Cost allocation safeguards
Separate property taxes, utility tariffs, capacity fees and assessments. Evaluate existing-ratepayer impacts, affordability and legal authority before any mechanism is proposed.
Ratepayer lens
Possible bill structure
Monthly bill illustration
- Reference: ECUA residential water (Escambia)$15.86 min + $3.21 / kgal
- Reference: ECUA residential wastewater (Escambia)$17.85 min (2 kgal) + $9.73 / kgal
- Extension-related charge—
No modeled charge is an approved tariff.
ECUA figures are read from its 2026–2027 residential mainland brochure (see Sources); ECUA serves Escambia, not the Santa Rosa project area, and the effective date must be confirmed with ECUA.
Policy validation
- Cost causation and fair allocationopen
- Legal rate-setting authorityopen
- Customer and class impactsopen
- Equity and bill affordabilityopen
- No double counting of revenuesopen