Utility Department

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Rates & Billing

Water Utility Rates
Sewer Utility Rates
Public Fire Protection
Private Fire Protection
Winter Based Average
Clean Water Utility
Bill Payment Information
Penalties


Water Utility Rates
Effective January 1, 2009.

Water Fixed Charges-These costs are related to maintaining meters, reading meters, and billing costs.


Meter Size Monthly charge
5/8 inch meter--------- $10.01
3/4 inch meter--------- $10.01
1 inch meter----------- $18.01
1-1/4 inch meter------- $26.02
1-1/2 inch meter------- $35.02
2 inch meter----------- $65.04
3 inch meter----------- $126.07
4 inch meter----------- $208.11
6 inch meter----------- $274.14
8 inch meter----------- $384.20
10 inch meter---------- $483.25


Water Use Charges
The amount of water use, measured by a water meter. Usage is billed in units per 1,000 gallons.

First 16,000 gallons used monthly - $3.53 per 1,000 gallons
Next 250,000 gallons used monthly - $3.29 per 1,000 gallons
Over 267,000 gallons used monthly - $2.29 per 1,000 gallons

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Sewer Utility Rates
Effective January 1, 2009.

Meter Size Monthly charge
5/8 inch meter--------- $11.85
3/4 inch meter--------- $11.85
1 inch meter----------- $16.35
1-1/2 inch meter------- $19.55
2 inch meter----------- $32.85
3 inch meter----------- $53.85
4 inch meter----------- $83.85
6 inch meter----------- $117.00

Sewer Usage Charges
$5.15 per 1,000 gallons used

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Public Fire Protection
Effective Janruary 1, 2004
$.01778 per $1,000 of Property Value per Month

What is Public Fire Protection?
This charge applies to all Village of Pleasant Prairie property owners, located in the Pleasant Prairie Water Utility. This is a cost of maintaining water infrastructure for the purpose of providing water to fight fires. Fire hydrants are primarily used for fighting fires and are allocated entirely to the public fire protection category. All other utility infrastructures, including water mains, towers, and reservoirs, are designed to provide some water in reserve for fire fighting while maintaining access to the water supply and is, therefore, partially allocated to this cost.

But I own a vacant lot and there isn't a water hydrant on my property, why should I pay?
Utilities have to provide extra capacity in their systems to ensure there will be adequate and reliable water pressure to fight fires. Even though this extra fire protection capacity is seldom used since fires are not very common, costs are still incurred by the utility and must be paid for - hence the need for fire protection charges.

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Private Fire Protection
This service is for Commercial and Industrial customers and does not apply to Residential customers. Private Fire Protection shall consist of permanent or continuous unmetered connections to the main for the purpose of supplying water to private fire protection systems such as automatic sprinkler systems, standpipes, and private hydrants. This service shall also include reasonable quantities of water used for testing check valves and other backflow prevention devices.

Monthly Private Fire Protection Service Demand Charges

Connection Size Monthly charge
2 inch or smaller connection--- $4.00
3 inch connection-------------- $7.20
4 inch connection------------- $11.60
6 inch connection------------- $23.10
8 inch connection------------- $36.90
10 inch connection------------ $55.70
12 inch connection------------ $74.00

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Winter Based Average (or Sprinkling Credit)
The winter base rate shall be that volume of water that can be proven to pass through a municipal water meter, which can be verified through the use of water meter readings for a two month period between December 1 and March 1. This volume shall serve as the basis for determining the volume charge for residential customers that are connected to municipal water for the following 10 billing cycles. Customers whose water meters indicate non-consumption in the winter base determination period shall be billed based upon the average of the non-metered customers or their actual meter readings if it is less than the non-metered average.

Those sewer customers that are not connected to the Village’s municipal water system shall have a winter based rate that is determined by taking the total volumetric reading for all residential municipal water customers and dividing that number by the number of households that have water meters. That average consumption rate of water, rounded to the nearest thousands of gallons, shall serve as the basis for residential customers that are not connected to municipal water.

Those sanitary sewer customers that are served by municipal water from the Kenosha Water Utility may bring in utility bill stubs each year from the Kenosha Water Utility representing readings from the same billing period and that average consumption shall be used to calculate a winter base rate. Those customers may also choose to accept the average winter base rate as established for sewer customers not connected to any municipal water system.

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Bill Payment Information
The Village of Pleasant Prairie offers an automatic bill payment (ACH form) for the utility bills (Download form required Adobe Acrobat Reader) that can make your payment directly from your checking account.

Cash and Checks will be accepted in person at the Village Hall or can be mailed to:

Pleasant Prairie Utilities
9915 39th Ave
Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158

For payments after normal business hours, there is an After Hour Drop Box located to the right of our main entrance doors.

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Penalties
A charge of 1% of the unpaid balance per month will be added to bills not paid within 20 days from the date of issuance. Utility bills not paid by November 1st will be added to the tax roll with a 10% penalty. Failure to receive bill does not waive past due penalty.

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