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LOCAL By HALEY HUGHES Staff writer
Those same customers continue to pay for water and sewer under those rates to service the debt taken on for the system repairs, but VPSA may be able to lower them eventually. A former Avondale customer pays, on average, $33 month, according to Smith. An average VPSA customers pays $29.75.

"We told everyone up front the only way we could take it is by using the rates Avondale had approved by the Public Service Commission," Smith said. "We told them we can't pass on the expense to our existing customers."