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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThat increase would be for a \u201ctypical\u201d homeowner who has a 5\/8\u201d to 3\/4\u2033 meter and uses about 8,000 gallons of water per month, according to Director of Water Utilities David Bayhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That \u201ctypical\u201d customer who lives inside city limits currently pays a combined $87.99 monthly for water and wastewater service. The new rate will be $91.43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: City of Lakeland<\/p>\n\n\n\n The city adopts rates in three-year increments, but each year it revisits the tentatively approved rate to ensure it\u2019s suitable. Rates can be adjusted up or down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting Oct 1, fees for the city of Lakeland water utility service will rise under new prices approved unanimously by the Lakeland City Commission on Monday. That increase would be… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":49849,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-photo-scaled.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[9750],"class_list":["post-49848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-water-and-wastewater-rates-set-to-increase-for-lakelanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49851,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49848\/revisions\/49851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Water-Usage.webp?resize=1024%2C408&ssl=1\")
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