EPSWA rate increase coming

Customers of the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority (EPWSA) should expect a rate hike in the coming months.

However, with an eye on the number of its customers on fixed incomes, the EPWSA board indicated Monday that any rate hike would be linked to the Labor Department’s consumer price index (CPI) and not to the rising costs being experienced by EPWSA.

In other words, the coming rate hike wou…