PSC Local Hearing On Missouri-American Water Rate Next Week

Missouri PSC Seal

The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold a series of local public hearings around the state starting today (1/17) to receive customer comment in a water and sewer rate case filed by the Missouri-American Water Company.

There will be both in-person and virtual public hearings conducted by the Public Service Commission.

While today and tomorrow have nothing but virtual hearings, the first public in-person hearing is set for Thursday, January 19 in Joplin. The second in-person meeting is in northwest Missouri, coming up on Tuesday, January 24 in St. Joseph at the Blum Student Union on the campus of Missouri Western State University.

That hearing will start at 6:00 P.M., with a public information/question and answer session conducted by the PSC Staff, followed by the Commission receiving testimony from the public.

A third in-person meeting is being held January 25 in St. Louis and an additional virtual meeting is on January 26.

On July 1, 2022, Missouri-American Water filed water and sewer rate cases with the Missouri Public Service Commission seeking to increase their annual water and sewer revenues by approximately $99.6 million, a 25.7% increase.

Missouri-American provides water service to approximately 474,000 customers and provides sewer service to approximately 16,500 customers in the state.

* To attend a virtual local public hearing by telephone, at the time of the hearing, call toll-free 1-855-718-6621, listen to the prompt and enter the access code (2455 943 6681 for the January17 hearing); (2456 839 5072 for the January 18 hearing); or (2451 319 5401 for the January 26 hearing) followed by # (pound/hashtag symbol). If prompted for a password, enter 0303. To attend a virtual local public hearing by WebEx video (internet), visit the website www.webex.com . You can also download the Cisco WebEx meetings application on your mobile device, laptop, desktop or tablet prior to the hearing and join the meeting at the hearing time by entering the corresponding access code and password listed above.