NEW: Watertown’s utility rates set for 2025
Mike Tanner/KWAT Radio
November 25, 2024
Mike Tanner
WATERTOWN, S.D.–The Watertown Municipal Utilities Board of Directors met Monday to set utility rates for 2025.
Director of Administration Adam Karst says electric rates are going up one-percent next year. Water rates are going up five-percent, but natural gas rates are decreasing five-percent.
He says the bottom line for residential customers will be an increase in their overall monthly utility bill of about 76-cents a month.
The board also approved about $10 million in capital improvement projects for next year, the largest of which will be a cast iron water main replacement project.
Karst says that work will extend over both 2025 and 2026, with most of the work occuring in northwest Watertown.