Tinley Park Residents To See Water Bills Increase In 2024

TINLEY PARK, IL — Tinley Park residents will see an increase in their water bill beginning in January when the village hikes the rate at which it charges for water for the first time in 10 years, village officials recently announced.

Starting on Jan. 1, the village will move from a two-tier rate system to a four-tier rate system, which will change the rate at which residents are billed for water from quarterly to bi-monthly, the village said in a news release. The change will involve a rate increase as well as a small adjustment in meter base fees, and the addition of a new $9 administrative fee that will be billed bi-monthly.

Despite the increase, village officials said that water bills for local residents remain below average in comparison to other neighboring villages and cities.

The increase, the first since 2014, is needed, the village said, to maintain Tinley Park’s high-functioning water system and to allow the village to remain financially responsible, village officials said. The only other increase residents have seen is when the village jumped fees to adjust to the growing costs of purchasing water from the Oak Lawn Regional Water System.

Since that time, however, the Consumer Price Index has jumped by more than 30 percent, village officials said.

According to the village, water rates in 2024 will increase from the current rate of $7.48 per 1,000 gallons of water used for customers using between 8,000 and 12,000 gallons in a bi-monthly basis to $9.53. Customers who use between 13,000 and 22,000 gallons of water bi-monthly will see rates jump to $12.46 beginning in January while residents using more than 23,000 gallons of water by-monthly will see rates jump to $14.66.

The village said that to keep water funds solvent, it has had to limit capital improvements to only the most necessary projects, defer additional maintenance costs, and transfer money from the operating funds into the water funds. If the problem isn’t addressed now, it will only become a larger financial burden on the community in the future.

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