Sand Mountain Reporter

Marshall County Gas District customers will see an increase in their usage rates starting Dec. 1, but those rates will still remain one of the lowest in the state.

The increase is due to one of the pipeline suppliers of natural gas increasing their rates.

“That’s a major reason, and then other operating costs have risen,” Albertville Mayor Lindsey Lyons said.

“ Like any entity, employee wages, health benefits, the whole nine yards, has increased.”

The rates will increase 4 cents per hundred cubic feet for residential customers and poultry houses. The rate for other commercial customers will increase 5 cents per hundred cubic feet.

Rates are based on the monthly gas market index published by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

According to the Marshall County Gas District, the average annual increase for customers will be about $18.

The gas board is made up of the three mayors from Albertville, Guntersville and Arab and Richard Lawson, who runs the district.

According to Peggy McClung, the gas board’s chief financial officer, the last rate increase was in November 2007.

“We still have the lowest gas rates in Alabama and there are some that have rates twice as high,” Lyons said.

Craig Rigsby, from the Boaz Gas Board, said he does not expect any rate increases for their customers.

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