Windsor residents should be prepared to pay more for water and sewer service come July 1. But the Windsor Town Council is not ready to approve rates quite yet. The council, in a 4-0 vote Wednesday, opted to continue the conversation about a 6% increase for water rates and 11% wastewater rate. … The Wednesday night decision marks the council’s second delay for approving the new rates, giving Windsor residents an extension for protesting the potential rates. … The increases are driven largely by the rise in wholesale rates charged by Sonoma Water, the county agency that serves as the region’s dominant supplier, as well as costs from town water and sewer infrastructure upgrades. … The higher rates will go toward covering replacement costs for the town’s wastewater treatment system and construction of a facility to handle biosolids — organic matter reclaimed from sewage and used in agriculture — with a combined price tag of $175 million.

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