Fees for sewage and precipitation disposal are increasing.
From 2022, the Starnberger See wastewater association will demand ten percent more for one cubic meter of wastewater, and 13 percent more per square meter of sealed surface than before.
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The renovation of the old canals is one of the reasons why the wastewater and rainwater charges on Lake Starnberg are increasing.
However, the permanent increase in construction prices weighs even more heavily.
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- The general rise in prices is also noticeable in the disposal of wastewater and rainwater. The wastewater association Starnberger See (AV) is increasing the fees from January 1, 2022 from 3.26 to 3.60 euros per cubic meter of wastewater. In future, property owners will have to pay 1.12 euros a year for every square meter of sealed area. So far, the rainwater fee was 0.99 euros per square meter and year. The association meeting decided to raise it against one vote on Thursday morning in the Pöckinger Beccult. These fee rates apply until the end of 2025.
When calculating the new fees for the next four years, the association submitted a 200-page book to an engineering office in Munich. All figures and data must be included in the cost calculation, because the association must neither violate the cost recovery requirement nor the economic efficiency requirement. In other words: he may not make profit or loss. Therefore, the more than 4 million euros additional income from wastewater fees, which the association has recorded since mid-2018 and which it had not taken into account, was also taken into account. That means, without this unexpected additional income, the price increase would have been even greater. In the previous calculation, looking at the years 2015 to 2017, there had been agreements in the amount of 6.2 million euros.
Even relatively small amounts were noticeable at this point, as AV CFO Ludwig Raab said: “From 25,000 cubic meters more or less, the fee amounts to three cents.” The association expects a total of 13.1 million euros for this Wastewater per year and 2.1 million for the precipitation fee. Or the other way around: with 3.625 million cubic meters of wastewater and 1.85 million square meters on which rainwater accumulates. The wastewater association looks after around 15,000 property connections.
In the latest calculation, the association had assumed a general price increase of nine percent, as Raab explained to the association councils.
One reason are salary increases including the Munich allowance, plus "daily rising energy costs, skyrocketing construction costs and increasing environmental regulations," he said.
Raab expects significantly higher costs and therefore also significantly higher fees from 2026. Then the sewage treatment plant will have to be brought up to date.
The association last did this in 1999.
The chairman of the association, Pöcking's mayor Rainer Schnitzler, expects a double-digit million amount for the general renovation of the facility in Starnberg.
To do this, the sewers would have to be gradually rehabilitated.
“That also represents a piece of environmental protection,” he emphasized.
The current fee increase comes six months earlier than the last increase announced in July 2018. The reason is a complaint from the municipal auditing association. He had complained that the new fee rates were based on the figures from January 2018 to December 2021, but that the new fees were only valid from July. Association councilor Michael Haberl from Bernried criticized this preference. "At the time, we announced in our flyer that the fees would remain stable for four years," he objected. Wouldn't it be better to postpone the planned increase by half a year to the end of 2022? No, replied the chief financial officer. “The local auditing association does not allow us to do that.” In addition, the fee increase is manageable for the individual: “It's about 12 to 15 euros per inhabitant per year,” said Raab.The citizens will not suffer any harm from the increase.
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