Guastella
Associates, Inc. are the leading experts in; management, revenue requirement, rate
studies, appraisals, financing and sales negotiations for both investor-owned (regulated)
and municipal water and sewer utilities. Please find below a sample of our 100 years
of experience. |
| B.S.,
Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1962 Registered Professional Engineer in: Florida, New York, and New Jersey |
Member: |
| Committees: AWWA, Water Rates Committee (Manual M-1, 1983 Edition) National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and NAWC, Joint-Committee on Rate Design NAWC, Rates and Revenue Committee NAWC, Small Water Company Committee |
| Currently, Mr. Guastella is President of Guastella Associates, Inc., which provides management, valuation and rate consulting services for municipal and investor-owned utilities. His clients include utilities in half of the continental States of the USA. |
Mr. Guastella also served for more than four years as President of Country Knolls Water Works, Inc., a water utility which serves some 5,500 customers in Saratoga County, New York. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Water Companies. |
 Prior to establishing his own firm, Mr. Guastella was employed by the New York State Public Service Commission for sixteen years. For two years he was involved in the regulation of electric and gas utilities, with the remaining years devoted to the regulation of water utilities. In 1970, he was promoted to Chief of Rates and Finance in the Commission's Water Division. In 1972, he was made Assistant Director of the Water Division. In 1974, he was appointed by Alfred E. Kahn, then Chairman of the Commission, to be Director of the Water Division, a position he held until he resigned from the Commission in August, 1978. |
In addition to his employment and client experience, Mr. Guastella served as Vice-Chairman of the Staff-Committee on Water of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). This activity involved the preparation of the "Model Record-Keeping Manual for Small Water Companies," which was published by the NARUC. This manual provides detailed instruction on the kinds of operation and accounting records that should be kept by small water utilities, and on how to use those records. |
| Since 1974 he has prepared study material, assisted in program coordination and served as an instructor at the Eastern Annual Seminar on Water Rate Regulation sponsored by the NARUC in conjunction with the University of South Florida, Florida Atlantic University, the University of Utah and currently Florida State University. This course is recognized as one of the best available for teaching rate-setting principles and methodology. It is attended by regulatory staff, utility personnel and accounting, engineering, legal and consulting firms throughout the country. In 1980 he was instrumental in the establishment of the Western NARUC Rate Seminar and has annually served as an instructor since that time. He has also served as an instructor and panelist in a water and sewer utility rates and regulations seminar conducted by the Independent Water and Sewer Companies of Texas. |
| Expert Witness Mr. Guastella has qualified and testified as an expert witness before regulatory agencies and municipal jurisdictions in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia. For a complete list of Mr. Guastella's witness appearances please click here. |
| Papers and
Presentations Mr. Guastella has presented papers at meetings of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the American Water Works Association, the National Association of Water Companies, the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners, the Florida, New England and New York Chapters of NAWC, the Mid-America Regulatory Conference, the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Pennsylvania Environmental Conference, and the Public Utility Law Section of the New Jersey Bar Association. For a complete list of Mr. Guastella's papers and presentations please click here |
| Appraisals
For a more complete list of Mr. Guastella's appraisals please click here. |
| Depreciation
Studies For a list of Mr. Guastella's depreciation work please click here.
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Mr. Guastella has
prepared appraisals for a number of utilities covering such topics as fair market value of
a system, management and financing, stock appraisal and the value of water rights.