Lewis County PUD

Public Utility District #1

Schedule 50

STREET LIGHTING SERVICE

AVAILABILITY:

This schedule is available in all territory served by the District, upon receipt of an authorized application and contract for total street lighting service to ten or more lights from the same account where service can be provided from the District’s existing distribution system.

APPLICABLE:

To overhead lighting from dusk to dawn for public streets, alleys, thoroughfares and grounds, installed in accordance with the District’s specifications, where District’s facilities are already available, and where the District has, or is willing to establish, street lighting service.

MONTHLY RATE:

1. Street lighting service, District owned facilities.

400 watt sodium vapor lamp                                $13.00             180 KWH
250 watt sodium vapor lamp                                    9.80             115 KWH
200 watt sodium vapor lamp                                    8.40             91 KWH
100 watt sodium vapor lamp                                    5.80             43 KWH

2. Street lighting service, energy only, customer owned facilities.

400 watt sodium vapor lamp                                $10.00
250 watt sodium vapor lamp                                    6.50
200 watt sodium vapor lamp                                    5.20
100 watt sodium vapor lamp                                    2.70

PROVISIONS:

General:

1. Fixtures and reflectors of all District owned street lighting shall be approved and supplied by the District.
2. Maintenance by the District of District owned facilities shall be on regular service runs to the area.
3. The rates as provided above for District owned facilities shall be applicable to all District owned street light fixtures, and the District shall commence billing at said rates at the regular billing date nearest the date of installation.
4. The rates as provided above for customer owned facilities are applicable only to existing facilities at their present locations. All new facilities shall be metered and all existing facilities shall be converted to metered service at time of alteration and upgrade.
5. All customer owned lighting systems or fixtures shall be metered and have an electrical disconnect. These accounts will be billed under the District’s Rate Schedule 20.

Overhead:

1. No overhead services are permitted for ornamental standards.
2. The District can install a lighting fixture on any pole in its distribution system provided 120 volt service is available within 150 feet of said pole. Transformers will not be installed to serve a lighting fixture.  The customer will pay a $100 installation fee for each light.
3. Where the District does not have overhead facilities, existing District-owned overhead service will be extended to customer furnished and maintained poles provided:
   1. Such extensions do not exceed 150 feet per fixture served.
   2. The poles conform to the District’s pole specifications. (If requested, the District will install a wood pole for the meter pole fee listed under overhead services in Schedule A of the Line Extension Policy. The customer will own and maintain said pole.)
   3. The District will then install its lighting fixture on said pole for the above provided rate.

Underground:

1. Generally, all underground served lighting fixtures will be customer owned.
2. For isolated single pole installations not feasible (in the opinion of the District) to connect to a lighting system, existing District owned underground service will be extended to an individual customer furnished and maintained pole provided:
   1. Such extensions do not exceed 150 feet in length.
   2. The pole conforms to the District’s pole specification. (If requested, the District will install a wood pole for the meter pole fee listed under overhead services in Schedule A of the Line Extension Policy. The customer will own and maintain said pole.)
   3. The District will not furnish unmetered service to ornamental metal standards, only wood poles.
   4. The customer furnishes the ditch and conduit.
   5. The customer pays a customer service charge of $100.00 per pole riser and $1.00 per foot, including riser length, for the underground service.
   6. The District will then install its lighting fixture on said pole for the above provided rate.

TAX ADDITIONS:

The above rate is subject to proportional increases to compensate for any gross revenue, kilowatt hour, or other form of tax hereafter imposed by any municipal, state or federal taxing body, in accordance with provisions of Schedule X-2.