Rates

Residential Rates

Small Commercial Rates

Small Commercial rates are available to non-resident customers whose peak demand is generally less than 60 KW, single-phase or three-phase. Service is subject to BMU established rules and regulations.

Large Commercial Rates

Large Commercial rates are available to non-residential customers whose peak demands have exceeded 60 KW for two billing periods. Service is subject to BMU established rules and regulations.

Industrial Rates

Industrial rates are available to commercial and industrial customers for all power and lighting through one set of meters at a single delivery point. Customers must remain in the rate class for a minimum of 12 months.

The minimum bill for Industrial customers shall be equal to 50% of the past 12 months’ highest demand x $15.60/KW. The minimum shall be charged only when the sum of the total energy charges and the total demand charges for the current month do not equal the calculated minimum.

Billing Demand will be the maximum fifteen-minute measured demand in the month.

Water Rates

Residential/Commercial/Industrial

*Surcharge 2023/24 Bond Issue: BMU issued bonds to finance a new water treatment plant and numerous large piping projects. Customer bills will include a monthly surcharge for the financing obligation for the length of the bond issue, which is 30 years.

Each customer will be assigned a Summer Peak Usage Adjustment Level (SPUAL). The SPUAL will be set at an amount equal to 300% of the greater of the Winter City Monthly Average (WCMA) or the average of the customer’s most recent monthly usage for the monthly usage for the billing cycles ending in November, December, January and February at the customers current premise. The WCMA will be calculated each year (rounded to the nearest tenth) after the billing cycle is run in February. Any customer who does not have water usage history with the utility at the address at which service is requested shall be assigned the WCMA for purposes of computing their SPUAL.

All water consumed above the assigned SPUAL on bills dated June, July, August, will be billed at the rate of two times the published rate and two times the surcharge rate per 100 cubic feet of water.

Irrigation water rates are determined by multiplying the applicable consumption rate and service charge by a factor of 1.50. The service charge shall be $7.00 per billing cycle for the billing months of November through April for irrigation meters left in place during those months.

Rural water rates are determined by multiplying the applicable consumption rate and service charge by a factor of 1.10.

A $50.00 fee shall be applied when any water meter is reinstalled.
 

Residential Wastewater

A residential user shall be defined as a domestic dwelling unit such as houses, mobile homes, and permanent multi-family dwellings with a separate water meter.
 

Wastewater charges for usage and surcharge will be computed per 100 cubic feet of water used in the November-February billing cycles, plus the Customer Charge. The average of these four billing cycles will determine the monthly wastewater charge for the following eight billing cycles.

Commerical Wastewater

A commercial user shall include any facility operating as a business, either profit or nonprofit, and all publicly owned facilities, except consumers listed under residential, industrial, and institutional.

The wastewater charge will be computed: 1) per 100 cubic feet of water used, plus the customer charge; or 2) per 100 cubic feet of metered wastewater flow, plus the Customer Charge.

Industrial Wastewater

An industrial user is an entity permitted by Brookings Municipal Utilities Industrial Waste Pretreatment Program. The wastewater charge will be computed: 1) per 100 cubic feet of water used, plus the customer charge; or 2) per 100 cubic feet of metered wastewater flow, plus the Customer Charge.

Food Service Wastewater

A food service user includes any business that prepares and serves food and beverages and is required by either Plumbing Code of BMU to have a grease interceptor.