Sentence examples for sewer rate from inspiring English sources

After a long dispute between Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta and a majority of the City Council, the Council passed a sewer rate increase to finance a $3.2 billion overhaul of the city water and sewer system.

Mr. Payne, who strongly opposed allowing Jefferson County to raise revenue to replace the occupational tax, said he considered the proposed settlement, which would have resulted in years of sewer rate hikes, "unconscionable".

Unable to meet debt payments, the county eventually made a $4.2 billion bankruptcy filing in 2011 — the largest government bankruptcy in United States history until Detroit's filing last month — and residents and businesses are certain to face a big sewer rate increase as the case winds it way to settlement.

"The county therefore faced the intolerable circumstance of having an unelected third party attempt both to impose unreasonable sewer rate increases on the county's citizens and to seize the last monies in the county's general fund reserves, all for the benefit of the holders of the very indebtedness that has wreaked havoc on county's solvency and financial wherewithal," the filing said.

"Sewer rates will rise dramatically under this deal," he wrote.

Water and sewer rates are 500 dollars a year.

Mr. Strasburg: "Water and sewer rates, sprinklers, a host of issues".

But he says water and sewer rates have actually declined slightly.

The report also calls for greater equity in sewer rates across the county.

To pay for all that, residential sewer rates will have to go up, officials said.

Water and sewer rates are nearly back to record highs, and rising.