{"id":355975,"date":"2026-06-11T07:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355975\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:51:51","slug":"county-to-increase-sewer-fees-for-users-of-city-wastewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355975\/","title":{"rendered":"County to increase sewer fees for users of city wastewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kern County is looking to raise sewer rates for residents tied in to the city of Bakersfield\u2019s wastewater system, matching the increase passed by the city last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Board of Supervisors Tuesday set public hearings for the proposed rate increase for four west Bakersfield county service areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u201cproposed service charge increase is necessary to cover the costs associated with CSA sewer maintenance, increase city sewer\/treatment rates, and offset general inflation that is being reflected in rising operational expenses,\u201d meeting documents said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The board unanimously approved public hearings for 2 p.m. July 28 in the board\u2019s chambers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The impacted CSAs are 71, 71.1, 71.2 and 71.3. Affected property owners will be sent a letter notifying them of the increase and the public hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Similar to the city\u2019s process, the increase is subject to majority protest provisions, meaning if more than half of the affected property owners submit protests, the increase can\u2019t be enacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But if that happens the county will still be responsible for paying the city\u2019s sewer rates, meaning the rest of Kern County\u2019s taxpayers will make up the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kern County is looking to raise sewer rates for residents tied in to the city of Bakersfield\u2019s wastewater&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,735,100066,113102,145050],"class_list":["post-355975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kern-county","tag-public-hearings","tag-sewer-rates","tag-wastewater-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355975","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=355975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}