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Section 21: Community News Subject: Water and Sewer Crisis Msg# 1221660
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It seems we go around this question annually without a solution.
This is the first report I am aware of when we see the county has borrowed $9.2 million from the General Fund to LOAN to some service areas where the ratepayers are not paying enough to support the operation. The county has, I presume, every legal right, to run lines from the OP plant to provide sewage treatment for Riddle or any other location. However, providing this extended service should not be paid for by the existing ratepayers of the Ocean Pines service area. Any newly added areas should also pay a premium to reimburse the OP service area for a fair share of the infrastructure costs that provided the OP facility. That is the issue. And a force main should be built to handle the flow instead of trucking. Trucking is only being done because the Glen Roidle plant is not functioning properly for the last three or four years and will not be fixed for another two or three years! The county intends to spend $3.6 million to fix the Glen Riddle plant and aftet that happens there should be no reason the truck Glen Riddle sewage to OP for treartment. I believe the county Public Works intent in running a line from OP to Glen Riddle is to eventually connect new businesses and homes on the south side of 50 (west of McDonalds) to the OP service area. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: It seems we go around this question annually without a solution. I believe that OP rate payers have financed the expansions of the OP treatment plant through usage rates and special assessments. All sewage from outside areas should be priced at the going rate and charged to the source. And a force main should be built to handle the flow instead of trucking. An alternative that I would favor is a new treatment plant across 50 paid for the businesses and residences that would use it. It's no different than when ours was built using assessments and bonds. The County needs to climb that mountain instead of taking the easy way around it. |
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