Flooding Bill Still to Grow Sewer Rate Hike to Pay $43 Million; Project List May Swell to $500 Million
Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) › August 05, 2010
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The top local utility official is reluctant to estimate the cost of preventing raw sewage from getting into the Ohio River and other public bodies of water.
Still, Jim Garrard, interim director of the Water & Sewer Utility, acknowledges any cost estimate for that work easily reaches into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Questions over the price of ending the overflow of raw sewage from the local sewer system have arisen often lately as local leaders deal with a related but separate issue: flooding on the city's Southeast Side.See the full content of this document
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Flooding Bill Still to Grow Sewer Rate Hike to Pay $43 Million; Project List May Swell to $500 Million
Utility officials are looking to spend about $43 million on a group of projects mainly meant to curtail the flooding that has plagued several neighborhoods for decades. The work is affordable, they say, only if sewer rates rise from $27.23 a month for the average Evansville household to $32.95 a month by 2012.
Utility officials meanwhile sayEvan...See the full content of this document
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