Great Lakes Water Authority [GLWA] next steps ?

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GLWA is currently raising wholesale water and sewer rates by roughly 3%. The stated reason is that the price of the chlorine that is used has gone up by 80%. This is true; if anything the price may have gone up even more.

This is an industry analysis of recent chlor alkali price increases. It's well known that in 2020 and 2022 there were two plant fires for plants producing pool chemical chlorine tablets so those became much more scarce and costly,
but availability should be better in 2023 and prices should moderate. However, this is a different raw material stream from what water treatment facilities use.

https://www.owi.com/commercial/resou...view-june-2022

One of the main industrial chlorine suppliers, Olin, has over
recent past decades acquired smaller independent producing plants and then reduced chlor-alkali production capacity. As the linked article shows, Olin succeeded in engineering a large price increase per bulk domestic short ton of chlorine, to about $800 a ton from $227 a ton.