Politics & Government
Sewer Fees Increasing In Jenkintown For 2025
Jenkintown borough officials said the fee increase will cover the rising expense of treatment and the cost of treatment plant maintenance.
JENKINTOWN BOROUGH, PA —It was approved in 2023 but wasn't enacted in 2024. But for 2025, sewer fees will be rising for borough residents.
During his presentation recently on the 2025 municipal budget, Borough Manager George Locke said that the sanity sewer rate fee increase is due to the rising expense of treatment, the cost of maintenance to the treatment plant, and for preparation of impending downstream construction of the surveyance system.
He said the annual fee of $82.50 and the cost of $3.41 per 1,000 gallons will remain the same.
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The current allowance of 24,194 gallons will be reduced to 10,000 gallons.
Locke said that the current borough rate for the average residential usage of 58,000 gallons per year of $198 will rise next year to $245.70, an increase of $47.70.
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"Jenkintown will remain the least expensive of the 30 municipalities under comparison by $53.26 and below the highest two by $572.26 annually," Locke said in his budget presentation.
He said that residents continued paying the 2023 rate this year due to a billing error.
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