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(continued)
(in thousands} 2021 2020
Total Long-Term Debt (less current portion
and unamortized debt insurance costs):
Pennichuck Water S 105,875 5 103,019
Pennichuck East 24,124 21,023
Pittsfield Aqueduct 132 136
Subtotal Regulated Segment 130,131 124,178
Service Corporation : -
Other 96,932 99,627
Tota] Long-Term Debt $ 227,063 $ 223,805
Rate Cases
Pennichuck Water
On October 21, 2021, Pennichuck Water filed an emergency tariff sheet request for approval
with the NHPUC. The Company’s emergency tariff filing was on behalf of a single customer,
the Merrimack Village District (MVD), and would allow this customer to purchase bulk water
at Pennichuck Water’s variable cost of production. The initial rate to be billed will be $0.67
per cubic feet. This would allow MVD access to Pennichuck Water’s bulk water supply in late
2021 and during 2022, while MVD’s water supply systems are brought into compliance with
water quality regulations for PFAS contaminants.
On November 12, 2021, the NHPUC issued Order No. 26,552, with an effective date of
November 20, 2021, approving Pennichuck Water’s request for an emergency tariff filing on
behalf of a single customer, the MVD. This emergency tariff is on a temporary basis and must
not exceed a term longer than six months from the effective date.
In conjunction with this, Pennichuck Water also opened a docket under DW 21-134 for the
approval of a special contract for these emergency rates, in order to bring those rates into
full force and effect (preceding and succeeding the emergency rate tariff), upon approval, for
the time period from which the emergency usage of this water was initiated on October 20,
2021, for a period not to exceed a termination date of December 31, 2022.
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