Attention Salt Lake City residents: Your water and sewer bills are poised to go up. See how much.
Operators of the city’s vast system of treatment facilities, pipes, meters and dams say the increase is necessary as the system ages.
(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo)
Wastewater treatment plant at 1300 West 2300 North in Salt Lake City in 2017. The city is poised to raise sewer rates by 18% in the 2021-22 budget.
Leia Larsen is a sixth generation Utahn and a water and land use reporter reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has covered environment, energy and political issues throughout the West. When she’s not chasing the news, Leia can be found exploring the Wasatch Mountains, sleeping in the desert or rooting around her garden.