Hubbard council committee requests sewer rate legislation

HUBBARD Officials noted Environmental Protection Agency requirements for lead service lines as part of the uncertainty faced in forecasting city finances. At a meeting earlier this week, Councilman Mike Kerr, D-4th Ward, asked the law director to draw up legislation for an ordinance declaring the rates and charges for the use of the wastewater treatment plant s facilities and sewage system. Kerr noted in a utilities committee that the rates officials did five years ago are going to expire, and the EPA is putting a massive amount of legislation on many communities. Kerr added officials want to be proactive regarding replacements with sewers, cameras and other needed items. We hear infrastructure is old everywhere, and we re trying to keep up with sewer lines, water lines and trying to keep ahead of the game, Kerr said. Because, down the road, the feds and EPA is going to put more restrictions and more restrictions and squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Raftelis, a North Carolina-based