Ag concerns about water rate hikes aired at TUD board meeting
Concerns of raw water users, the Tuolumne County Farm Bureau, and its water committee came before the Tuolumne Utilities District Board of Directors at a meeting Tuesday. The concerns were raised near the end of a discussion of a draft water rate study that’s focused on increasing rates to generate revenue to operate and maintain TUD’s proposed acquisition of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. water system in the South Fork Stanislaus watershed and at the Phoenix Lake reservoir. The draft water rate study includes five years of proposed water rate increases to be effective beginning Sept. 1.