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This article discusses the principles and philosophy of the baseextra capacity method of cost allocation and illustrates its effect on determining cost-of-service block rates. Typical characteristics of water usage for residential, commercial, and industrial customers are used to demonstrate the design of cost-of-service rates applicable to each class of customer. This method of cost allocation permits design of equitable declining block rates that will recover the costs of service applicable to each customer class based on a single set of unit costs applicable to all customers. Includes tables, figure.

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Edition: Vol. 75 - No. 9 Published: 09/01/1983 Number of Pages: 6 File Size: 1 file , 1.6 MB