Faced with rising costs and aging infrastructure, Ketchikan City Council raises utility rates
Posted by Eric Stone | Feb 19, 2021
KPU Water Division work crews fix a broken water main on Schoenbar Road in July 2019. (Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
Water and power rates are going up in Ketchikan. That’s following a vote by a divided Ketchikan City Council after concerns were raised about steady losses by the city-run utility.
Ketchikan Public Utilities’ water division hasn’t broken even for at least a decade. That’s despite rate increases nearly every year. And KPU’s electric division hasn’t fared much better it’s also been in the red for most of the past decade.