The city of Richland has launched a 24-hour automated phone payment option for utility bills.
Customers can pay their regular bills through the system and also delinquent accounts. To access it, call 942-1104, select "2" and follow the prompts to enter account information.
Customers also can pay online, by mail, in person, through automatic withdrawals from their checking account and through their bank's bill-payer service, a city news release said.
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A few hundred Franklin County households could get an unexpected gift this holiday season -- money back from the Franklin PUD.
The PUD learned this week that it collected city utility taxes by mistake from people who live in unincorporated parts of the county -- in some cases for years.
"We were very glad to get the call," PUD spokeswoman Debbie Bone-Harris told the Herald on Thursday. "We are in the process of correcting any accounts. We will be adjusting those as soon as we go through them."
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Mitch Clardy of West Richland was stunned to open a letter April 15 saying he owed the city $2,961.
He has been receiving free sewer service since buying his home in April 2006, according to the city. The letter said that has come to an end and the back balance would show up on his May utility bill.
Clardy's is one of eight utility accounts that Darrell Stewart, the city's utilities accountant, has found to be underbilled since he was hired about a year ago.
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