Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001410636-25-000150
Chunk: 66

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 66
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 from the Seaside Groundwater Basin. The final decision sets the cost cap for the proposed facilities at approximately $62 million. Cal Am may seek recovery of amounts above the cost cap in a subsequent rate filing or general rate case. Additionally, the final decision authorizes AFUDC at Cal Am’s actual weighted average cost of debt for most of the facilities. On December 30, 2022, Cal Am filed with the CPUC an application for rehearing of the CPUC’s December 5, 2022, final decision, and on March 30, 2023, the CPUC issued a decision denying Cal Am’s application for rehearing, but adopting its proposed AFUDC for already incurred and future costs. The decision also provided Cal Am the opportunity to serve supplemental testimony to increase its cost cap for certain of the Water Supply Project’s extraction wells. On May 21, 2025, the CPUC issued a decision authorizing an increase to the cost cap of $11 million for the specified extraction wells.The amended water purchase agreement and a memorandum of understanding to negotiate certain milestones related to the expansion of the GWR Project have been signed by the relevant parties. Further hearings were scheduled in a Phase 2 to this CPUC proceeding to focus on updated supply and demand estimates for the Water Supply Project, and Phase 2 testimony was completed in September 2022. On October 23, 2023, a status conference was held to determine procedural steps to conclude the proceeding. Further evidentiary hearings were held in March 2024. On May 9, 2025, the CPUC issued a proposed decision in Phase 2, finding that without the Water Supply Project, projected demand will outstrip supply by approximately 2,500 acre-feet per year. On June 18, 2025, the CPUC issued a decision extending the Phase 2 statutory deadline to October 31, 2025. This Phase 2 matter remains pending.While Cal Am believes that its expenditures to date have been prudent and necessary to comply with the Orders, as well as relevant final decisions of the CPUC related thereto, Cal Am cannot currently predict its ability to recover all of its costs and expenses associated with the Water Supply Project and there can be no assurance that Cal Am will be able to recover all of such costs and expenses in excess of the $123 million in previously approved aggregate construction costs, plus applicable AFUDC, previously approved by the CPUC in its September 2016 decision, its December