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AWWA ACE61797

  • The Hard Sell: Effectively Communicating Rate Increases Utilizing Multimedia Tools: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
  • Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 06/17/2005
  • Publisher: AWWA

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Spartanburg Water System and Sanitary Sewer District (SWS/SSSD) is located in thenorthwestern section of South Carolina along the I-85 corridor between Charlotte, NorthCarolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. Experiencing significant growth along with pressures of newstate and federal clean water initiatives, SWS/SSSD embarked on a $150 million capitalimprovement campaign aimed at meeting these challenges. Because little if any investment incapital improvements had occurred in previous years, SWS/SSSD water and sewer rates weresome of the lowest in South Carolina. To adequately fund the $150 million capital campaign,significant water and sewer rate increases would be required over the next five to eight years.The challenge of gaining public support for this endeavor would require an innovative method ofdelivering information to the community as to the need for and purpose of this capital campaign. The paper discusses communications/customer outreach, and using multimedia to convey the message including billing insert, videos, website and an interactive kiosk. Includes table, figures.

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