City of Richland, WA
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Electricity
Residential Rates
Single-phase service base fee rate: $ 0.69/day
Multi-phase service base fee rate: $0.98/day
Small General Commercial Rates
Single-phase service base fee: $ 0.86/day
Multiphase service base fee: $ 1.16/day
Monthly Energy Charge: $ 0.0667/kWh
Additional Electric Rate Information
All Electric Rates
Water
Meter size of 1" or less daily base fee rate: $0.8071
Additional Charge Per 100 CF: $ 0.85
Residential, multifamily, commercial and large user customers serviced through a water meter will be charged monthly for metered water consumption on the basis of meter size, which includes applicable taxes. Residential customers serviced through a single meter will be billed at the one-inch or less base rate per living unit, plus consumption charges.
Additional Water Rate Information
Sewer
Daily Residential Charge: $0.8416
Residences and condominiums will be billed the monthly residential charge. For multifamily facilities served by a water meter for each unit, sewer will be billed at the residential charge to each unit regardless of whether the living unit is occupied.
All Sewer Rates
Refuse (Solid Waste)
All residential customers shall be charged the following daily service rates effective with the billings in the month indicated:
Basic Refuse Service: $0.5753
Refuse - No Yard Waste: $0.5474
Recycling: $0.2532
Additional Refuse Container: $0.2679
Additional Yard Waste or Recycling Container: $0.0657
Extra curbside garbage placed out for collection shall generate a charge of $3.00 for each additional garbage can load. Residential requests for call back or returns by solid waste personnel to empty containers which were obstructed; were not at curbside and in street by 6:00 a.m.; were packed in such a way that refuse would not exit the container when tipped; or to pick up additional refuse will be charged a call-back fee.
Additional Solid Waste Rate Information
Stormwater
Daily Residential Charge: $0.1266
Based on an equivalent residential unit (ERU). One ERU is equal to 3,000 square feet of impervious area. All residential properties are deemed to contain one ERU. Townhouses, condominiums, duplexes, tri-plexes and four-plexes are subject to the residential charge for each living unit.
Additional Stormwater Rate Information
Medical and Ambulance Service Utility
Daily Customer Charge: $0.4136
Daily Multifamily Residences: $0.4136/unit
Daily Commercial/Business: $0.4136/unit or facility
There is established and created a utility revenue fund to be known as the medical services fund to be held separate and apart from all other funds of the city. Any and all revenues received by the utility, including but not limited to all service fees and all other rates, fees and charges relating to the EMS program, shall be credited to the medical services fund, along with all appropriations from the general fund for the utility. All expenditures for the regulation, operation, and maintenance of the utility shall be paid out of the medical services fund.Additional Ambulance Rate Information
Irrigation
These rates apply to all city serviced irrigation customers in the following service areas: Horn Rapids, Columbia Point, Meadow Springs/Willowbrook and Sienna Sky Village.
Residential Annual Irrigation Rate: $318.00 (1 Acre or Less)
Additional Irrigation Rates