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Rene Lopez: “Cost of chlorine is up but 400% since COVID.”

Featuring: Rene Lopez, Republican | Arizona Corporation Commission

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Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission

Published | Video Starts at 19:30

And as I mentioned in my introductory, we still have the lowest cost of service of any city in Maricopa county, but we had to raise our rates. Cost of chlorine is up but 400% since COVID. Cost of people, cost of infrastructure, all the piping, all the steel, everything is going up. But what we can do. And Leon Marquez Peterson said it rightly, we have to evaluate those rate cases that come in. (19:30–19:34)

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