Can’t really add much to this Cedar Posts run down of recent CMUD water rate hikes. Like so much of local government it was conceived and operated with the assumption that boom years would be the norm, in this case new hook-up fees would keep rolling in.

But I will add that CMUD has been something of a victim in that both the city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County have dumped infrastructure costs onto it and CMUD ratepayers that should have been paid out of local tax revenue. This would make the cost of favored redevelopment schemes more obvious, but local pols don’t do obvious.

The upshot is another little notch higher for the cost of government in Mecklenburg County.