Golden State vs. Casitas: Water rates compared part 3
To help Ojai residents understand how the proposed buyout of Golden State Water Company might impact the rates they could pay for water, the Oai Valley News will profile several typical Golden State Water Company customers. We will compare their average water usage at today’s GSWC rates and what those charges would be as a Casitas Municipal Water District customer including the proposed property tax.
Water customer
Allen Bertke and Liz Currie
Size & type of lot
More than 43,560 square feet. Customer has four acres and five horses
Meter size
1 inch
Annual water usage
864 units
All charges from Golden State Water Company for 864 units
$4,816.14
All charges from Casitas Municipal Water District for 864 units
$2,015.19
Maximum annual bond payment for this lot
$2,093
Total annual combined bond and CMWD water charge
$4,108.19
Result
GSWC charge would be $707.95 higher than Casitas charges and then bond amount.
If vote was held on the bond today, would customer support it?
Yes.
To complete your own rate comparison, you will need the previous one year’s Golden State Water Company bills (six bills). Click here to go to the online rate calculator.
Select bi-monthly for “How you are billed.” Select pumped for “Gravity or Pumped.” Select residential for “Customer Type.” Find your meter type on your GSWC bill and enter that in the “Meter Size” menu. Enter the number of water units used on each of your six bills. Click the calculate button and make note of the estimated water bill amount. Add these six amounts together.
Next, you will figure the bond amount you would have to pay if it were in effect today. This amount will be added to the estimated water bill amount from the rate calculator and that is the figure you will compare with the total amount paid to Golden State for the year.
For this, you will need to determine the size of your parcel. If you are not sure, contact the Ventura County Assessor’s Office at 654-2181. For single-family parcels larger than one acre, your maximum annual bond payment would be $2,093. For single-family parcels between 22,000 and 43,560 square feet, your maximum annual bond payment this year would be $1,235. For single-family parcels between 10,000 and 22,000 square feet, your annual maximum bond payment this year would be $741. For single-family parcels less than 10,000 square feet, your maximum annual bond payment this year would be $480. Condominium owners would pay $407 annually this year. There are also rates for commercial and industrial property owners that we will give when we profile those types of properties.
I don’t understand. Allen and Liz met this way?
Is this unincorporated Ojai? Location please.
Poorly written article.
Editor’s note: This was the third in a series of articles profile Golden State water ratepayers and what they are currently paying for water and what they might pay if Casitas Municipal Water District were there water purveyor.
It had nothing to do with how they met. They live in the city of Ojai, but not all Golden State Water customers do, so the exact location of their property is not as important as the fact that they are currently a Golden State customer. We hope this alleviates your confusion.