DuPage County explores cutting water contract with Chicago, building pipeline to Lake Michigan
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.DuPage Water Commission Executive Director Paul May stands in a 72-inch pipe at the water commission in Elmhurst on May 24, 2023. The commission is considering ending its 40-year contract with the city of Chicago providing Lake Michigan water to much of DuPage County.
Water won’t start flowing to Joliet until 2030. The best practice, May said, is that cost-of-service model, where in addition to the amount of water used, a custom rate is calculated based on the cost of the infrastructure built to deliver it and how efficiently the water travels. A grandmother with a half-inch meter would pay less, for example, than an industrial water user with a 14-inch pipe.
By state law, Chicago is required to provide water “at no greater price or charge” than what it charges within its own city limits, which stands at $4.54 per 1,000 gallons. As for the $2.50 per 1,000 gallons estimate for Joliet, Chicago officials agree that DuPage would pay a lower rate than it pays now under the cost-of-service model, but that final rate has not been calculated.
between $5.3 billion and $7 billion, according to the report. Those numbers could be higher or lower depending on interest rates. The report’s calculations assume debt service payments at 6% interest.
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