Aloha Utilities should be allowed to almost double residential water bills over the next two years, Florida Public Service Commission staff agreed late Friday. ...more

February 2, 2008

A Florida Public Service Commission vote on Aloha Utilities' first round of proposed water rate increases has been postponed until next month. ...more

January 29, 2008

Aloha Utilities customers soon could be paying more for drinking water. ...more

January 18, 2008

For some 30 years the Hudson Water Works has operated in relative obscurity. That could change Friday afternoon when the small, nonprofit utility cooperative, which supplies drinking water to about 6,700 people in the Hudson area, holds its annual meeting and election of directors. ...more

January 16, 2008

To hear the politicians tell it, Aloha Utilities is up for grabs. ...more

December 8, 2007

LAKE PLACID — In July, the 70 customers of Sebring Lakes won their water rate battle with Aqua Utilities, a Philadelphia water company. Some customers who were paying $10 or $20 a month were suddenly getting bills for $180 or $190 a month. But although the Florida Public Service Commission demanded a refund for Sebring Lakes residents, the money still hasn't come, said Jane Barnard, who lives on Tangelo. "They have not paid back one single penny," said Barnard, a senior citizen who lives with her husband, Floyd, in the small subdivision between Sebring and Lake Placid, just a block from U.S. 27. The residents are mostly middle-class retirees who live in two-or-three bedroom concrete block homes. ...more

November 16, 2007

About 10 months behind schedule, an Aloha Utilities water treatment project is flowing again, with the application for a construction permit possible by mid-December. ...more

October 17, 2007

About 10 months behind schedule, an Aloha Utilities treatment project looks to be back on track now that a consultant has started sending information on resolving longstanding water quality problems. ...more

October 17, 2007

Tampa Electric Co. is touting its proposed $2 billion coal gasification power plant in Polk County as 'clean coal technology.' ...more

October 4, 2007

An Oct. 10 meeting might give customers the first peek at an expert's reports on installing a new treatment system at Aloha Utilities. ...more

October 3, 2007