Yorba Linda : Water District to Raise Rates to Erase Deficit

The Yorba Linda Water District, in a move it said is designed to erase a budget deficit, has announced that it will raise its basic monthly charge 46% and its water rate 26%.

The increases, which become effective Jan. 20, will raise the current basic monthly charge from $4 to $5.85, while the basic water rate will go from 45 cents per 100 cubic feet of water to 57 cents.

Officials said a typical family water bills could go up $3.65 to $14.40 a month.

The district, which serves approximately 42,000 persons in Yorba Linda and portions of Brea, Anaheim, Placentia and unincorporated county areas, sustained a loss of nearly $680,000 during the past year because, officials said, the agency didn’t get the county augmentation funds it had anticipated.