State to take over Lake Junaluska system
Lake Junaluska Assembly received notice recently that the North Carolina Utilities Commission will in the near future be resuming regulation of Lake Junaluska Assembly’s provision of water and sewer service, including setting the rates for those services.
This change was anticipated and reverts Lake Junaluska back to commission regulation and rate-setting, which is where it was before 2011 when the North Carolina Utilities Commission exempted the lake from regulation and the rate setting role was assigned to the community council.
The 850 customers of the water and wastewater utilities will not see any changes in how they receive these services. The only change is that the provision of water and sewer service, and the rates, terms and conditions for that service, will be regulated by the North Carolina Utilities Commission. Jack Carlisle, as the director of Assembly Public Works, will manage this transition with the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
