Sewer Rate Increase
December 17, 2009
At the next Village Council meeting, Monday, December 21st, a resolution will appear before the council for a second reading to increase sanitary sewer rates. The proposal is to raise the base bill charge by $4 per month staring with the January billing. This $4 increase will be used initially to fund removal of heavy sludge deposits from two sewage lagoons next spring. The estimated cost for the sludge removal is $135,000. The year after next, one of the dikes will be repaired and another lagoon will have its slidge removed at an estimated cost of $70,000. Future cost to be incurred is the reduction of inflow and infiltration into the sewer system. During high ground water events we experience a lot of clean water flowing into the sanitary sewer system through bad pipe joints and broken pipes. This leakage limits the amount of sewage we can treat and is costly. There is also a cost increase of .05 per 1,000 gallons. This increase will cover annual increases in cost of operation.
