Raul Cisneros isn’t happy.

The Oak Grove resident buys water for his home from Carolina Water Service and sewer service from the Town of Lexington.

He pays CWS an average $36 a month and the Town of Lexington $68.

Before the town took over sewer service, his average CWS water and sewer bill was about $97.

Now it averages $104.

He’s “not happy” that the Public Service Commission approved higher CWS rates to pay for a lost legal battle.

Cisneros is not alone.

CWS customer Scott Adams of Lexington said, “The decision to essentially reward Carolina Water for polluting our natural resources and providing less than adequate service is yet another travesty inflicted on ratepayers by the so-called ‘Public Service’ Commission.”

He said the PSC is failing miserably at protecting the public, utility ratepayers, and our public natural resources, as evidenced by the SCE&G nuclear debacle.

“There is no rational, legitimate or honest reason for allowing the loser of a blatant case of illegal pollution to recover legal fees

“The citizens need to demand their elected representatives immediately review and correct this atrocious decision.”

State Reps. Chip Huggins of Irmo and Todd Atwater of Lexington said the House has passed at least 4 bills on this to “no avail.”

Atwater said he has called for the entire PSC to resign.

“It is shameful how they have conducted their duties. This, sadly, is one more example of why they are not fit for the office they hold.

“I called for hearings on SCANA’s rate increases nearly two years before they shut down the two nuclear facilities,” he said.

“For trying to find out why, at that time, there were 6 rate increases in 6 years, I was removed from the committee and not allowed to participate on the study committee appointed after the shut down.”