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Maysville official warns sewer consent decree will drive multi-million-dollar upgrades, possible rate increases
Summary
Maysville City Manager Matt Walling told Mason County Fiscal Court that a state consent decree requires long-term sewer separation and several large wastewater and pump-station projects, and he warned those projects could mean further rate increases and new borrowing.
Maysville City Manager Matt Walling told Mason County Fiscal Court on Feb. 13 that the city is under a state consent decree to separate its combined sewer overflow (CSO) system and faces a multiyear slate of wastewater and water projects. Walling described completed phases, loans already taken, and upcoming work that he said will likely require more borrowing and could trigger future utility rate increases.
“The city is under a state consent decree to separate our combined sewer overflow system,” Walling said, detailing past KIA (Kentucky Infrastructure Authority) loans and projects that included an east-end CSO separation and recent wastewater-treatment upgrades. He said the city has submitted a Phase…
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