>New Jersey American Water seeking a 15 percent rate hike
New Jersey American Water is seeking an average 15 percent rate increase for 2012, prompting one local official to call the request “obscene.”
The Voorhees-based company, which has 640,000 customers in 188 municipalities in South Jersey and across the state, says it needs the increase to help pay for the more than $300 million it has invested in infrastructure this year.
Burlington County Freeholder Director Bruce Garganio is calling on officials of other counties and mayors to join forces to fight the proposal. (Helfer, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
