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MOUNDSVILLE –Â Staring down the barrel of increased debt service, rising operation costs, and with the prospect of government intervention if they took no action, Moundsville’s city council voted to raise the sanitary rates to the city.
Council voted unanimously to pass the increase at the third and final reading, introducing a 35.4 percent hike. Based on an average residential use of 4,000 gallons of water per month, this is projected to raise the monthly rate from $19.08 to $25.83. City Manager Rick Healy stated that this increase brings Moundsville up from the second-lowest rate in the state to the ninth-lowest among municipalities. The last increase was enacted in 2010.