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TAXES AND UTILITIES

UTILITIES

The State of Texas operates in a deregulated electric and gas utility market. Consequently, there are several retail electric providers (REPs) that service the Big Spring market. This situation provides unprecedented levels of competition for your electric service. Industrial rates for electric service may vary depending on KWH peak demand and other related factors.

Natural Gas Costs

Gas rates will vary by the type of service and level of interruptibility.

Water District

The Colorado River Municipal Water District was authorized in 1949 by an Act of the 51st Legislature of the State of Texas for the purpose of providing water to the District's Member cities of Odessa, Big Spring, and Snyder. The District also has contracts to provide specified quantities of water to the cities of Midland, San Angelo, Stanton, Robert Lee, Grandfalls, Pyote, and Abilene (through the West Central Texas Municipal Water District).

The District owns and operates three major surface water supplies on the Colorado River in west Texas. These are Lake J. B. Thomas, the E. V. Spence Reservoir, and the O. H. Ivie Reservoir. Together, the full combined capacity of these reservoirs is 1.272 million acre-feet. Visit www.crmwd.org for more information.

Water Service

The City of Big Spring has a base rate of $12.50 per month per meter usage fee plus $2.35 per 1,000 gallons of water. The quality of the water is as follows:

The quality of the water is as follows:

Chlorides 266 MGL
Hardness 372 MGL
Total Dissolved
Solids 934 MGL
Alkalinity 126 MGL
P.H. 7.4

Sanitary and Industrial Sewer

Sanitary sewer and Industrial sewer are treated as one process within the Public-Owned Treatment Works (POTW). Rates for sewer are $11.75 per month base rate and $.80 per 1,000 gallons. For further information visit the City of Big Spring website at www.ci.big-spring.tx.us.