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Representative Cases

Liberty Utilities (Entrada Del Oro Sewer) Corp., Decision No. 76019 (March 22, 2017).  Application for a Rate Increase and Financing Approval consolidated dockets concluding in a comprehensive settlement, which established new, phased-in rates, and authorized implementation of a Purchased Power Adjustment Mechanism and a Property Tax Adjustment Mechanism.

Eagletail Water Co., L.C.  Represented Eagletail Water Co., L.C. in connection with ACC efforts to assist in the acquisition of small water utilities by larger water utility operations, and represented Eagletail Water Co., L.C. in negotiations and due diligence in a Merger Agreement.

Liberty Utilities (Bella Vista Water) Corp., Decision No. 75809 (November 21, 2016).  Application for a Rate Increase and Financing Approval consolidated dockets concluding in a comprehensive settlement, which established new rates, authorized the implementation of a Purchased Power Adjustment Mechanism, and permitted the future application for a System Improvement Benefits Mechanism.

Liberty Utilities (Litchfield Park Water & Sewer) Corp., Decision No. 75718 (August 23, 2016).  Application for an Accounting Order Authorizing the Deferral of Costs Associated with Efforts to Address Potential Contamination of Water Supply concluding in approval for the Company to remediate the Perfluorooctanoic Acids and Perflurooctane Sulfonates concentrations in its water supply, and authorizing recovery of associated costs in the Company’s next rate case. 

Liberty Utilities (Black Mountain Sewer) Corp., Decision No. 75510 (April 22, 2016). Application for a Rate Increase and Financing Approval consolidated dockets concluding in a comprehensive settlement, which established new rates, developed a special commercial tariff governing the terms and conditions of service to provide wastewater to breweries in the service area, provided remediation and sales activities related to closure of the Boulders Wastewater Treatment Plant (WTTP), and dismissed an appeal relating to the WTTP.

Liberty Utilities (Litchfield Park Water & Sewer) Corp., Decision No. 74993 (March 16, 2015).  Tariff Filing for Approval of an Agreement with the Central Arizona Water Conservation District.

Payson Water Co., Inc., Decision No. 74175 (October 25, 2013).  Application for a Rate Increase and Financing Approval consolidated dockets concluding in expedited Commission authorization to borrow funding for the purpose of constructing a new water transmission line to connect Mesa Del Caballo to the Town of Payson.

Pima Utility Company, Decision No. 73993 (July 16, 2013).  Application for a Rate Increase docket concluding in a modification to permit recovery of income taxes based on the Commission’s Policy Statement on Income Tax Expense for Tax Pass-Through Entities Revised 2/8/13 (adopted and codified in Decision No. 73739 (February 22, 2013). 

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