VI. BUDGET/FINANCES

The 2018 budget allocation for Oakwood Water Production was $603,999.38. In 2018, the Oakwood Water Production Unit spent $553,594.22 toward the production of the City’s drinking water. This computes to an average cost of $1,138.67 per million gallons pumped from the city’s eight wells in 2018, down from $1,194.40 per million gallons in 2017. The cost per million gallons will fluctuate up or down depending on the total water demand for the year. 2018 had an average water demand higher than 2017 due to a warmer and fairly dry summer. We continually strive to bring down the cost of water by optimizing our treatment process.

The water production unit budget consists of five main categories: personnel, utilities, chemicals, maintenance and miscellaneous. The following charts show what percentage of the budget goes to each of these categories and shows a comparison from the year before.