Board frames slip-lining, infrastructure work as key to future usage-based sewer billing

During the sewer public hearing, staff and board members emphasized infrastructure work—especially slip-lining aging clay pipes—as a way to make usage-based sewer billing fairer and to limit inflow from groundwater or storm runoff. A staff member described slip-lining as a “preventative maintenance measure to avoid additional costs,” saying the city is pursuing proactive repairs so customers are not later charged for groundwater inflow under metered billing.