{"id":53652,"date":"2025-12-06T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53652\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T07:10:06","slug":"scranton-dunmore-mayors-seek-local-hearing-on-water-company-rate-increases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/53652\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton, Dunmore mayors seek local hearing on water company rate increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON \u2014 Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti and Dunmore Mayor Max Conway have asked the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to hold a public hearing in Scranton on Pennsylvania American Water\u2019s proposed rate increase, they jointly announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania American Water filed on Nov. 14 with the PUC a rate hike request ranging from $120 to $240 more per year, depending on whether a customer receives water or wastewater service or both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rate increases on typical customers would include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Water: $168 a year ($14 per month).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Wastewater: $120 a year ($10 per month).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Combined water\/wastewater: $240 a year ($20 per month).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The water company proposes no change to wastewater rates for Scranton wastewater customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If approved, rate hikes would take effect in August 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBoth Scranton and Dunmore residents, businesses, and community organizations are keenly interested in the potential impacts of the proposed increase,\u201d Cognetti and Conway wrote in a Nov. 24 letter to the PUC. \u201cA Scranton-based hearing will promote robust, representative input from our community and help inform a complete record.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2014 Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti and Dunmore Mayor Max Conway have asked the Pennsylvania Public Utility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20297,30149,5881,30147,9964,30148,178,180,179,30150],"class_list":{"0":"post-53652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-american-water","9":"tag-max-conway","10":"tag-paige-gebhardt-cognetti","11":"tag-public-hearing","12":"tag-rate-increase","13":"tag-rate-increases","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news","17":"tag-water-wastewater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}