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Thermal mobile home park residents see water bill relief

Posted by: Maven on May 11, 2010 at 6:19 am

From MyDesert.com:

“Residents of the Sunbird Mobile Home Park in Thermal are already seeing their trip to testify before state lawmakers last month pay dividends. Residents of the park, at 84-950 Echol Road, will avoid what some there have described as “unconscionably high” water rates — at least for a while — thanks to a temporary ruling last week by the state’s public utilities commission.

The California Public Utilities Commission announced Thursday that Sunbird management can no longer bill residents above the park’s top two tiers of water usage, pending resolution of a complaint filed last November by several Sunbird residents. The PUC’s ruling also states that the park cannot use residents’ non-payment of a water bill as grounds to evict them, pending a final decision.

Sunbird’s tier-three and tier-four rates were ten times the comparable rates charged by the Coachella Valley Water District, according to California Rural Legal Assistance, which is representing park residents there in the complaint before the PUC. … “

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May 11, 2010 · Filed Under Coachella Valley

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