{"id":293934,"date":"2026-04-30T22:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:58:18","slug":"kern-county-board-of-supervisors-approve-3-2-sewer-rate-hike-effective-july-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/293934\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Board of Supervisors approve 3.2% sewer rate hike effective July 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County households will see a change in their annual sewer service charges starting July 1, 2026, after the Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a 3.2% increase on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The board\u2019s action sets the charge at $368.37 per household per year, increasing from $356.95 last year, according to the information presented. The increase amounts to $11.42 for a single-family household per year.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern Sanitation Authority recommended the increase for 2026-2027, citing environmental considerations, and determined the action is exempt from future environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>A county document said the change is expected to generate nearly $6.3 million ($6,275,017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County households will see a change in their annual sewer service charges starting July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-293934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}